One month ago LINUX For You magazine made a call to the Linux/OSS community to send in questions it has for Linus Torvalds. We were overwhelmed by the amount of questions we recieved. It took us a whole night to sort out the best ones. The final setlist? 35 questions.
Read more »No word on Linux Dell PCs for NZ
Dell NZ can't say when the Ubuntu-packing PCs will make it to New Zealand - or if they will at all.
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See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign
A new data-mining service launched Monday traces millions of Wikipedia entries to their corporate sources, and for the first time puts comprehensive data behind longstanding suspicions of manipulation, which until now have surfaced only piecemeal in investigations of specific allegations...
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Mainframe Linux at SHARE
IBM's customer training and support group SHARE is holding a week-long seminar and conference at the Manchester Grand Hyatt here this week.
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When "RTFM" becomes "Oh, Just Forget It!"
One event was the posting of "The 10 Commandments for New Linux Users", which really deserves to be carved in stone and delivered from a mountain. And you can tell from the comments: flamers, trollers, and 1337 N00Bz, oh my! You can always tell when a great truth has been spoken on the Internet, because 1000 dung-flinging howler monkeys immediately show up to scream it down.
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No one has to buy anybody
"Our own Matt Asay has a piece out today lambasting Tim O’Reilly for a comment that, in the end, proprietary software outfits will gobble up all the open source guys."
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Ubuntu servers shut down for attacking others
Knowing that there is nothing worse than a bunch of chavish Linux servers looking for a rumble, or goading Windows computers with calls of, "Come and have a go, if you're hard enough," Cannonical decided to pull the plug.
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Software Freedom Day - September 15, 2007
On September 15, 2007, 1 month from today, there will be a very positive outreach to the masses by an organization that believes in the freedom of software.
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Linus Torvalds talks
The most recognizable name in the open source community talks about why he didn't go the proprietary route for Linux and how it could easily have been just another of his 'random small projects'
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Interview With GNU DDRescue's Antonio Diaz Diaz
Antonio Diaz Diaz, the developer behind GNU DDRescue, took the time to answer a few questions for Blue GNU regarding the GNU data recovery utility and how it compares to other projects.
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search:Community Portal - search - a Wikia wiki
This is the Community Portal of Search Wikia, which is the wiki to implement an editable open content free search engine.
Yes, you can help. Either as a developer or a wiki editor. Please see below.
You can ask questions at the forum or talk to one of the site admins if you need specific help.
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Linux Geeks Dust Nerds In Golden Penguin Trivia Bowl
... where a team of Linux Geeks vanquished a Nerd squad of Dell employees in LinuxWorld's annual trivia smackdown, the Golden Penguin Bowl.
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Site for Chilean users of Fedora
have the privilege to communicate that Chile already has a site for the community of Fedora users.
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Did SCO ever truly believe it had the Unix copyrights?
Anyone who has been following SCO’s legal claims against Linux may remember the name Mike Anderer. He’s the SCO consultant that emailed SCO's vice president and general manager of SCOsource, Chris Sontag, revealing a connection between Microsoft and the $50m invested in SCO by BayStar Capital in October 2003.
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Bringing more applications to Linux
Those who attended Linux World heard Ron Hovsepian’s challenge to work for the continued growth of Linux. He called out three areas: enlarging the ISV ecosystem, enabling the next generation data center, and expanding the market (in terms of new offerings, partnerships, etc.). In this posting, I would like to focus on the first of these – enlarging the ISV ecosystem.
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