Remember back when the primary use for the VCR was recording television shows playing at one time to watch them at a more convenient hour?
Read more »Kicking Around Open Source, Part 2: Warping Time With Podcasts
Open Source Community Honors Its Best and Brightest
SourceForge, Inc., the leader in community-driven media and e-commerce, today announced the finalists of its second annual SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards. The awards recognize open source projects which not only have the most supportive community following, but also those which the SourceForge.net community's members believe are built with the highest quality, productivity and ingenuity.
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Mandriva to provide local Linux support
Linux vendor Mandriva now has a presence in Britain after the formation of Mandriva UK Limited. The company said it aims to provide local distribution of Mandriva Linux and other open-source applications throughout the UK.
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Asia stays practical about open source
Companies in the Asia-Pacific region are warming up to open source software for practical rather than religious reasons.
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Red Hat High 2007: Getting Started
"Today, Sunday, is the first day of Red Hat High, and I’m expecting 47 kids. It’s 4:00 in the afternoon, and orientation starts at 4:30."
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Open source gets arty
Open Source software was at the heart of multimedia coverage of this year's National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. The Cue Online website is powered by Drupal, while CuePix is running a vanilla installation of Menalto's Gallery2. Cue is the official festival newspaper.
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Ubuntu Receives Readers' Choice Award for 'Best Linux Distribution'
Canonical, Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, today announced that it won Enterprise Open Source Magazine's Readers' Choice Award for the "Best Linux Distribution," voted on by members of the open source community.
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Kicking Around Open Source, Part 1: Blog Hot Spots
The real action for discussion of Linux and the hundreds of other open source software packages out there occurs in real time among ordinary people unconstrained by the limits of print publishers or Web site approval processes. Blogs and podcasts are the preferred communication channels for open source enthusiasts, and that comes as no big surprise.
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Gentoo staging big UK conference July 14
The Gentoo Linux project team will host its UK 2007 community conference on Saturday, July 14, at University College London. A wide range of topics will be covered, from clustering to KDE, a project spokesperson said on the distro Web site.
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Ubuntu "Feisty Fawn" on my Compaq V3000
This weekend I decided to take the plunge and install a Linux distro on my notebook PC. The reason I not done so already is because this particular notebook is well documented as being problematic under Linux, particularly the WiFi card as it is completely propreitry with no Linux drivers being available.
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Amarok 2 Jingle contest
As Amarok 2 will be quite a different beast compared to the 1.4 series, it will need a distinctive new first run theme. Since none of the developers are up to this task, we have teamed up with Magnatune.com and ccMixter.org to host a competition for the very best new jingle.
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Is Ubuntu Linux really ready for the big time?
Ubuntu has been one of the fastest growing distributions in quite some time with active and fast moving help forums, tutorial websites, easy to use package management system (similar to Add or Remove Programs in Windows), and or course the power flexibility and security of Linux under the hood.
Read more »Bring Order to Your Open Source
As open source makes greater inroads within IT organizations, it's time for companies to get serious about creating policies and governance models around its use.
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Promote your Open Source project, group or campaign FREE in the .ORG village @ LinuxWorld London.
Thanks to generous sponsorship you can promote your Open Source project, group or campaign FREE in the .ORG village (sponsored by uklinux.net) at LinuxWorld Expo 2007 (London Olympia 2, 23rd & 24th October 2007). Closing date for applying for space in the .ORG village is 31st July 2007.
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