Call it a brilliant idea. Call it a crazy whim. Call it a stupid waste of time and money. I guess time will tell which one it is: After thinking about it for several weeks, this morning, I registered the domain names DiamondLinux.com and DiamondLinux.org. I think Diamond Linux is a great name — a prestigious name, packed full of all kinds of positive connotations.
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Ruby logo available
"The official Ruby logo is available to download under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license now..."
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Open-Source Chief Executives Make 2008 Predictions
Open Solutions Alliance finds that changes in the economy will open the door for new deployments of open source in business.
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The Linux Foundation Launches New Podcast Series With Linus Torvalds
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today launched Open Voices, a podcast series featuring interviews with the industry's top Linux and open source leaders.
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Mozilla gets a new CEO
Mitchell Baker has stepped down as the CEO of Mozilla, where she helped make the Firefox Web browser a potent rival to Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
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Wikia Search Requires Your Help
"After midnight on the West Coast, Wikia made its alpha search available. Our heightened interest stems from the early pronouncements by Jimmy Wales, who co-founded Wikipedia. This time, his plan is to apply collaborative tools to build a better search engine than Google..."
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Speaking of So-called ‘Conspiracy Theories’ and ‘Coincidences’
In a previous post we showed that it would be foolish to ignore what Microsoft constantly does to sabotage and stifle competitors. At times, the company stumbles and falls. It fails to defend itself after leaving too many fingerprints or leaving in tact the trail of evidence which shows how it pulls strings in order to secretly attack it worst of fears.
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Bilboblog, a free micro-blogging php application
Bilboblog is a small application of micro-blogging in Php / MySQL. To ensure that everyone benefits, I share its source code which is under a free license.
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Miro: Looking for more testing volunteers
"The successful release of 1.0 last November was largely the result of the assistance we received from a relatively small group of dedicated volunteers. As we continue making improvements to the functionality of Miro - we also need to continue to improve the QA and increase the number volunteers..."
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Speaking Truth to Power Sometimes Involves Yelling
My colleague Bruce Byfield made some good points in his recent blog entry "Conspiracy theorists and free software." In it, he outlines his concerns that there is a vocal faction in the free software community that is too obsessed with a certain proprietary company, and that their rants and raves amount to so much rabble-rousing, which ultimately hurts the community at large.
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On the record with Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat's new CEO: 'I must have a mission'
I wasn't very nice to Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat's new CEO, when I heard the news that he was replacing Matthew Szulik. My reasoning? Matthew Szulik had done so much for Red Hat and besides, what could a Delta Air Lines COO have to teach about open source?
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The History of Linux
Linux is a very well known operating system for the computer. This operating system lies on the Unix family and it can be said that LINUX is graphical user interface or GUI version of the Unix.
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Ubuntu Linux: Built-in apps get an "A", wireless support an "F"
It didn't take long after installing Canonical Ltd.'s Ubuntu 7.10 version of Linux for me to decide I liked what I saw. A quick tour of the Applications, Places, and System menus indicated that converting from Windows to Linux would be relatively seemless. The only fly in the ointment was my inability to get any of three wireless adapters to work with the OS.
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At a Loss for Words
This is a roundup containing three articles about Microsoft Office's service pack, which blocks access to older microsoft file formats.
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Exclaim 0.2.0 Released!
"After 7 months and 1 week, Exclaim 0.2.0 is ready! This release contains many new features, such as full userspace application support, kernel module loading, ATA disk access, Ext2/RamFS filesystem support, and many more improvements..."
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