"The Gnome desktop environment developers have recently taken the decision to reengineer the Gnome desktop around the Mono framework. This decision has mainly been influenced by the main Mono developer Miguel de Icaza, who is a very vocal employee of Novell..."
Read more »Gnome goes Mono and jumps into the Patent Trap
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The REAL Reason the Linux Community Didn’t Come Up With the iPhone
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This article is in response to an article by Jaron Lanier in the December 2007 edition of Discover Magazine. In it, Lanier uses the terms Open Source and Linux somewhat interchangeably so for the sake of understanding I am not going to try and differentiate between the various philosophies - though I realize they exist and are important.
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Vista and Kubuntu - easy installs, uneasy comparisons
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Today I've finished installations of two very different operating systems, Vista and Kubuntu. Both are essentially trying to accomplish the same thing, which is to provide desktop users a satisfying and relatively seemless desktop computing experience. Both succeed to a certain degree and both fail in some important areas. The question is why?
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Highly superior gifts for the Linux geek
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Ah, the crassness of the commercialized holiday season is upon us, and I could curl my lip and refuse to participate, but no! Instead, I have scoured the Internet for holiday gifts that are geeky with an open source, stick-it-to-the-man slant. Now these are just my random, probably unsuitable selections, but you feel free to add your own ideas.
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Join the Firefox 2.0.0.10 Testday - Friday, 23. November !
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"...Please join the Mozilla QA Community for a testday on Friday 23. November, 2007! We will test the upcoming Firefox 2.0.0.10 with Release Candidate Builds on this test day..."
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There's No System Like Linux for the Holidays
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Holiday shopping season is about to hit full swing, and personal computers already rank high on many people's wish lists. If you're going to give the gift of a new PC, should you consider giving one with Linux? If the receiver is a tech-savvy individual, it may be the perfect gift, and the growing availability of preloaded machines means setup headaches are easily avoided.
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Are People Losing Interest in Linux?
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Linux is losing popularity. That is according to Google Trends, a tool from Google Labs that shows the most popularly searched terms from the beginning of 2004 to now. The graph below shows a downward curve.
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Every Macedonian Student to Use Ubuntu-Powered Computer Workstations | Ubuntu
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Popular Linux Distribution To Appear On More than 180,000 Classroom Desktops Nationwide
LONDON, November 20th, 2007 - The Macedonia Ministry of Education and Science will deploy more than 180,000 workstations running Canonical’s Edubuntu 7.04 as part of its "Computer for Every Child" project.
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W3C on Freenode
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"Just realized that some of you might not know, but some people of W3C hang out on #w3c channel on IRC freenode server. I will be there too, not 24/7, but as much as possible. You are welcome."
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Sunbird & Lightning: Help to make 0.8 a better release
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"We're currently doing all the planning work for the 0.8 release. Part of the planning work is determining which bugs need to be fixed for the release and which bugfixes can wait. We call this triaging. [...] We're counting on you!"
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Thunderbird: Survey results out!
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"The Rumbling Edge Thunderbird 2 survey (version 1) ran for three weeks, from 29 October 2007 till 18 November 2007, and there were just under seven hundred complete responses, a thousand if partial ones are to be included. A similar number (1,022 to be exact) were abandoned.
Read more »Ubuntu and DVD playback - an issue with codecs?
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As my colleague Sam Varghese has written , after nearly two weeks of flawless operation, my first Ubuntu Linux installation unexpectedly became unstable, crashed and was unable to be booted. Puzzled that an OS with the reputed stability of Ubuntu could behave like this, I searched forums and user groups for an explanation.
Read more »Mozilla Foundation grants and related expenditures for 2007
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"I previously posted some information on the Mozilla Foundation's grants and related expenditures in 2006. Since then I've been expanding our internal database of information about such expenditures, and have now gotten to the point where I can provide the same information for 2007. I'll continue updating this post in the remainder of the year as we add new projects..."
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Firefox 2.0.0.10 Released in Beta Channel
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"The release candidate for Firefox 2.0.0.10 is now available. We would like anyone running 2.0.0.9 who wants to help to download it and run it over the next week..."
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Meeting Tomorrow @ 8:30pm
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"...We’ll be discussing the latest and greatest happenings in the world of free culture, creative commons, and free software..."
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