I presented some thoughts on “Linux” and “GNU/Linux” in a recent post What’s in a name? GNU, Linux, or GNU/Linux?, trying to make the case to use “Linux” in preference to “GNU/Linux.”
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Asia On My Mind
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It's hard to ignore Asia lately, certainly from an open source perspective. Many Linux and open source players are looking at the potential customer bases on this continent (especially the eastern nations) and practically salivating.
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Gentoo Forums back online
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"After several days of being read-only the Gentoo Forums are back online after the upgrade to MySQL 5 and a full conversion to UTF-8..."
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Spread Open Media: Free Formats Benefit Free Software
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Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves, Project Manager of the Spread Open Media project, discusses the project's beginning and goals, namely to help spread awareness and adoption of Free/Libre media formats.
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Linux World China 2007 and Software Freedom Day preview
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Last Friday, I attended the Linux World China 2007 conference and exhibition held in the luxury Beijing International Hotel.
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Creative Commons Artist Spotlight: Convey
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Today we’re proud to introduce a new feature: Creative Commons Artist Spotlight, which Red Hat Magazine will be producing in association with jamendo.com. Every week, we will introduce our readers to emerging musical artists who choose to release their work under Creative Commons licenses.
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Book review: Getting Google’s Web Toolkit going
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Developers looking to build Ajax-style rich internet applications (RIA) are pretty much spoilt for choice at the moment.
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OpenSolaris vs. GNU/Linux: Deathmatch or Lovefest?
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I have been reading the CEO of Sun, Jonathan Schwartz’s blog, lately and it has some great material. I just love the fact that many CEO’s blog nowadays, as some of it is quite interesting, and bold, material.
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The real measure of Linux adoption.
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There are so many stories floating around the internet about how Linux is increasing its adoption here or is losing its hold there and every day those ratio's change. There is a much simpler and closer to home method of measuring Linux adoption and you don't even need an internet connection.
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Miro Needs Help (from you!)
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"PCF, which makes Miro, is a non-profit organization. That means no one can own us and we don’t take for-profit investment. That also means that we rely on donations to fund everything we do. We’re working towards Miro 1.0 and we are making big improvements to the Miro Guide, but we’re running very low on funds right now..."
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Upgrading to jQuery 1.2
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"As I’m sure most of you have already heard, the jQuery Project Team has just released a major new version (1.2) of our beloved JavaScript Library. Hat’s off to John Resig and the gang for another spectacular release!"
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Introducing the 2007 InfoWorld Bossies
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Not too long ago, open source meant starving developers; scant documentation; an ugly, outdated Web site; and software that lived in perpetual beta.
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Match:Why the Linux Desktop will succeed despite itself
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If you expect me to argue with the 13 reasons Kim Brebach gives for why the Linux desktop is unlikely to make it to a desktop near you any time soon, prepare to be disappointed. He's right.
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Open News Podcast - episode 26
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News stories such as GPLv3 Certified As Open Source, HP To Sell Linux Desktop, Lenovo Wants Linux, Hardy Heron, Software Freedom Day...
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Over 130 line up for inaugural Open Source Awards
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A number of the nominations come from overseas, in particular the US, and are from people using New Zealand solutions, say organisers
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