Branding first appeared on the splash screens of Linux distributions: cleverly designed logos that briefly showed the world what kind of Linux you were using, then rolled away to reveal the stock GNOME, KDE, or other window environment/manager underneath.
Read more »Linux Brands: Desired and Distracting at the Same Time
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Is the Android truly open source?
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Is the Android truly open source? Yes. And no. And sort of. When it comes to the cutthroat world of mobile telephony, it's not quite that simple.
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The Defensive Patent License makes patents less evil for FOSS
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Two law professors from UC Berkeley have come up with a novel idea to protect open source developers from patent bullies. They call it the Defensive Patent License. They hope the DPL can address the objections FOSS developers have with patents the way the GPL addressed them for copyright.
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Linux As A Religious Experience
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Hey folks, gotta’ a bit of news for you. Linux is an operating system. Using Linux will not redeem your immortal soul. It won’t even grant you that out-of-body experience you’ve been wanting.
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Even Gates and Ballmer can't live without Linux.
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Linux has increased in both popularity and usage over the years in an almost exponential curve. So much so that Bill Gates has called Linux a virus and Steve Ballmer describes it as a cancer. It must have really galled them when they realised that they cannot live without Linux. Not just these power heads of microsoft either. Every single windows user cannot live without Linux.
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Riverbed and the Open Source Flamebox
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Yes, Riverbed in some ways leverages open source and also contributes some testing components back. One of their bigger open source projects is something that internally carries the codename of 'Flamebox'.
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Patents, Patents, Everywhere...
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But recently something seems to have got into the water, for the entire world, apparently, has gone software patent mad.
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FSF launches free software extension listing for OpenOffice.org
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The Free Software Foundation announced a project to assemble a replacement extension library for OpenOffice.org, which will list only free software extensions. OpenOffice.org is free software, and an important contribution to the free software community. However, the program offers the user a library of extensions, and some of them are proprietary.
Read more »New documentation project for blind Linux users and all the others
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Tony is going to host audio tutorials and podcasts that are relevant for the blind using Linux: follow his guidelines and you'll produce audio tutorials very useful for all potential Linux users, not just those with vision problems!
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A Database Admin/Music Enthusiast's Linux Workstation
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The $100.00 (USD) Coolest Linux Workspace Contest continues with this entry from Brian, a database administrator (DBA) in a mostly Windows world by day, but off hours a musician/Linux geek. Now, let's all check out his Linux workspace
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European embedded Linux show seeks presentation ideas
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The Consumer Electronics Linux Forum (CELF) announced a call for papers for the next Embedded Linux Conference Europe (ELCE), scheduled for Oct. 27-28 in Cambridge, UK. CELF is looking for a variety of technical presentations focused on the use of embedded Linux in consumer electronics products.
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On bootstrapping a community-run FOSS event
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On Saturday, April 10th, I was in Austin Texas for the inaugural Texas Linux Fest (TXLF), a community-run FLOSS conference. The idea to stage the show arose last August during OSCON, picked up steam in the fall, and in the end a little under 400 people turned out — including speakers and volunteers — which most considered a successful number for a first year event.
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I Love WordPress But…
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At RedMonk, we’e big fans of WordPress. But between a few issues of our own and some challenges helping spin up someone else’s new business on WordPress.com, there are some macro areas for concern, I think.
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Why you should not use client-side window decorations…
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So finally I know who had the idea of client side decorations: it’s Canonical. Why didn’t I think of it before? I have been aware of the fact that GTK wants to do client-side window decorations since it was mentioned on the EWMH mailinglist and I think it is a completely stupid idea which has the potential to destroy one of the most important advantages of the free desktop...
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Wikimania: Call for Participation
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"...The conference is open to the public, and is a chance for educators, researchers, programmers and free culture activists who are interested in the Wikimedia projects to learn more and share ideas about the Wikimedia projects. This year's conference will be held July 9-11, 2010 in Gdansk, Poland at Polish Baltic Philharmonic..."
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