The next-generation of the KDE open source project, version 4.0, has been touted as the beginning of a new era in desktop computing, but only two months from the first release some users are wondering if it's just all hype.
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Alternative computing
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Why pay thousands to restrictive software companies when open source programmes are free, easy to use and green?
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Linux News: Consumer: Mozilla Makes Bid for Campus Clicks
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Firefox now has a campus edition, according to a Tuesday announcement by Mozilla.
The Firefox Campus Edition gives students access to music, lyrics, cover art, videos, photos and more, with add-ons FoxyTunes, StumbleUpon and Zotero.
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The Big Failure of the FSF
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Explaining what freedom in computing is about, is also talk about the FSF and/or the GNU project; they’re nothing less than the flagship of the free software movement and they’ve made huge steps toward freedom in computing, but they have missed a key point: If the average computer user is not on our side, we’ll get nowhere.
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The invisible desktop
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IF you go by what the mainstream press reports, you’d think there were only two computer desktop operating systems in the world—Windows and Mac OS. This notion would be most unfortunate because it might keep you or your company from exploring Linux as a reliable, secure and powerful desktop operating system for your PC that’s cheaper than the two proprietary platforms.
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Linux administration will become GUI
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I am confident that the future of Linux server administration will rely less on the command line, and that most server admins will use a GUI interface. To understand why this will happen, lets take a look at the success of Windows servers.
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Java needs an overhaul
http://www.russellbeattie.com –
I like Jonathan Schwartz a lot, but I think that unless some drastic changes are made to Java, the move to JAVA as Sun's ticker symbol is going to be as relevant as changing it to COBOL.
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Rick's reputation bailout
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"Australian Standard expert Rick Jelliffe leaves the party line and recommends "No with comments". He also lays his business affiliations open. Rick was one of the most notorious defenders of Microsoft in Australia and developed a new doctrine of National Relevance."
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Join the Firefox - Download Manager / Password Manager Test Day
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"Please join the Mozilla QA community for a Testday on Friday, August 31th, 2007!"
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OpenBSD: Software Freedom
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OpenBSD creator Theo de Raadt highlighted a recent commit to the NetBSD source tree saying, "if anyone had any doubt that our insistence on freedom was important, just read this."
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Linux Documentation: Often Ignored For Poor Community Advice
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It has long since been my own personal experience that Linux documentation is largely ignored by Linux beginners in exchange for the interactivity of Linux forums. The reasons why will be further explored in this piece; however, today I have located a solid exception to the rule.
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Conference Attendees Illustrate Linux's Broad Reach
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The recent LinuxWorld Conference & Expo drew a broad cross-section of users, from cautious onlookers trying to gauge how Linux and other open source software could fit into their organizations to converts hoping to expand their use of such technologies.
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Discontent with LiveContent
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LiveContent is a sampler of free content and free software, but this purpose seems lost in a cloud of rhetoric, even to project members. The CD suffers from lackluster presentation, a mediocre assortment of samplers, and a lack of explanation.
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What made the web great can make the client great, too.
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"...We need to stay focused on the strengths of the Mozilla platform and the web paradigm and not be distracted by “RIA madness”, complex toolchains, or the need to imitate existing proprietary solutions."
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The Danger of Tutorials
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So we've all probably blindly followed the directions of one tutorial or another at some point in time. Whether it was for some programming technique or to get a mail server up and running. Have you ever stopped to think about how damaging the tutorial could be if it contained wrong information?
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