"In the coming months there will be a lot of discussion about how mail and Thunderbird will evolve. There will also be more detailed discussions about the new organizational home as we move from plans to concreteness. This seems a good time to describe how we got to where we are today..."
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A Status Update on the Linux Versions of ETQW
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I'm Timothee Besset, the Programmer at id Software in charge of the Linux versions of Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars as part of the ongoing support for the game.
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Novell Open Audio: openSUSE 10.3
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As part of a Novell Open Audio series on openSUSE, they will be interviewing various openSUSE developers to find out more about the project, particular involvements and new technologies in the distribution. Today’s interview features a talk with Martin Lasarsch, an openSUSE evangelist.
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If I Were in Charge of...
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We have also been hard at times towards all of the big commercial vendors: Red Hat, IBM, Sun, Novell, Mandriva, Canonical, Dell, HP... the list goes on. How often, though, do we get a chance to step up and offer a positive suggestion to these companies?
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Open Source Phishing: A Call To Arms
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Recently consumer auction giant eBay announced that nearly 1,200 registered eBay users information was stolen via phishing attacks. That’s not shocking. What’s shocking is that it’s very likely the phishers were using rootkitted Linux boxes. They expected the attacks to come from Microsoft boxes. This time that’s not the case.
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Kelley Graham of Toasterz Talks About Appliances, Migration and More
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Blue GNU caught up with Kelley Graham, of Toasterz, to find out about his company's business appliances, migration and education work.
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On Steve Ballmer on social networks (and more)
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Via the UK Times: "I think these things [social networks] are going to have some legs, and yet there’s a faddishness, a faddish nature about anything that basically appeals to younger people," Mr.
Read more »Top 40 Linux blogs
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I have a Perl script to check the outgoing links from blogs for me, via planet sites. Yes, the planets aggregate the blogs, and the script snarfs the links from the planets. I'm so meta it hurts. So I have a bunch of link data, going back a little more than a year.
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W3C Launches “Mobile Web Initiative”
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"...the world Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced the launch of the Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) - an endeavor to make Web access from a mobile device as simple, easy, and convenient as Web access from a desktop device..."
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Source for linux testers — The Miro Testing Blog!
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"We have a new addition to our testing builds page. Starting today, we are regularly posting the source for any and all of our dedicated linux testers...Here is a link to the build docs for any extra info you might need."
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Linux phishing botnet statistics can be deceptive
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The Register reports today that eBay’s new chief information security officer (CISO) has noted a surprising trend (”eBay: Botnets are Linux-happy“). Specifically, in his previous employment as the CISO of Washington Mutual, evidence suggested that the majority of phishing attempts targeting the company originated on Linux systems.
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5 Reasons your parents should NOT use Linux
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This is a devils advocate post in response to my original post "Reasons your parents should use Linux". Though my original post intended to explain 5 reasons you should switch your parents to Linux, this post will address what many people have commented on in the past few days. 5 reasons why you should NOT switch your parents to Linux.
Read more »Scott McGregor, Thunderbird Lead Engineer leaves Mozilla
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On a short note, Scott McGregor, Thunderbird lead engineer, announced that on October 12 he will leave the Mozilla Corporation to pursuit other career interests. He plans, however, to continue his role as module owner for Thunderbird as a volunteer.
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Announcing the KDE 4.0 Release Event
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On January 17-19, the KDE community will present KDE 4.0 with a Release Event at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. The purpose of this event is to celebrate the anticipated release of KDE's new desktop environment and development platform. In addition to the KDE community, representatives from businesses, press and other Free Software groups will attend.
Read more »The Live PostgreSQL CD: FOSS Marketing 102
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PostgreSQL is not the first project to launch a live CD, but the concept is one many projects should seriously consider adopting as a marketing tool.
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