It’s St Valentine’s Day in much of the western world (and, it seems, the World of Warcraft too). Did you know Linux is unique among operating systems due to its inherent romanticism? Here’s how Linux helps sling forth Cupid’s arrows on this day. Spice up your love life with these seven sure-fire tips.
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JTV Tech Talk: Jans Aasman on "How Lisp will make Web 3.0 a reality"
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"Our next Justin.tv tech talk at the JTV office is this Thursday. Free pizza will be served at noon, and the talk will start at 12:30 (for approx. 40 min) [...] Jans Aasman will be talking about how Lisp and Web 3.0 (the Semantic Web) are intertwined..."
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A close examination of Yahoo's asset reveals why Steve Ballmer made the offer
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This must be the real story. Really. The. Real. Story! :-D
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Annoying misfeature of Gnome
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One annoying misfeature of Gnome is the way that they have tried to foul up X Windows cut and paste. For those who don’t know, X Windows cut and paste is much quicker and simpler than Microsoft Windows cut and paste. Select by dragging with the left mouse button, and paste by pressing the middle mouse button (this is the scroll wheel button on modern mice)
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Mozilla Dismisses New Firefox Flaw Warning
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Mozilla chief evangelist Mike Shaver says the latest Firefox information leakage bug warning is exaggerated.
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Photos from RMS' Kerala visit
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Photos from RMS' talk at UC College, Aluva in Kerala. He is welcomed with traditional drum band and he has his famous St IGNUsious pose.
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ScriptumLibre.org calls for boycott of Trend Micro
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"The ScriptumLibre.org Foundation issued a call today for a worldwide boycott on Trend Micro products. The call comes as a response to the public announcement on January 29th that a lawsuit was filed by Trend Micro in November 2007, which claims that software-security company Barracuda Networks is infringing its U.S.-patent on software that filters out viruses on Internet gateway computers..."
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Survey finds Ubuntu is the fastest-growing Linux distribution
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I've written before about the data collected from Alfresco's Open Source Barometer survey. While originally a survey of 10,000 members of Alfresco's "content community" (i.e., those who register with Alfresco to download white papers, documentation, etc.), the survey now includes a swelling population of the community, with 35,000+ members.
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First impressions count most with open source
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Today Alfresco is presenting the findings of the second Open Source Barometer. This is the largest study of the usage of open source in the enterprise stack by the Global 5000 and Governments across the world. The survey was conducted throughout 2007 using opt-in data provided by 35,000 Alfresco community members.
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Linux Fans Embrace MacBooks
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Whether you attended this weekend’s Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) or another recent open source event, one trend is clear: Linux advocates certainly love their Apple MacBooks.
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They say Linux "Just Works". Yet for some it.....
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I have said it myself and for me in my particular cases it is true. Linux "Just Works"... Yet for many out there it doesn't "Just Work". They install Linux, they want to do the same things that I do and they come up against a brick wall. Linux just doesn't work for them and they are not too shy about telling the world about it.
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What linux needs
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I love linux. The concept, the implementation, the whole ‘geek in a candy store’ feeling you get when choosing which distribution to install next, it’s great. Linux has matured enough that some distros (mainly Ubuntu) are becoming very easy to use and elegant.
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C/NET's "The Open Road" Blogger Shows His True Colors
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In Matt Ass.ay's latest blog he rips off a list of what GNU/Linux does from elsewhere on the net and adds comments based on vast experience of GNU/Linux which he gained from trying to install GNU/Linux 3 years ago. Well done Matt, you've shown us what good journalism is all about. Go read the comments much more useful than the blog itself.
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Gentoo: 2008.0 feature requests closed
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" We asked for your input a few weeks ago for the upcoming release. To meet release schedule, the Release Engineering team has stopped seeking new requests. The team is now reviewing all the requests to decide which ones could make it into 2008.0..."
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The GNU World Order needs YOU!!!
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Help raise global awareness of Free Software by adding markers on the new google maps website I've just set up at gnuworldorder.info. It would be great to get as many links geocoded as possible so people can see what's going on where, so take a look and spread the word.
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