Few people in the open source community have touched as many projects as Leslie Hawthorn, the now-former open source program manager for Google. As one of less than ten employees in Google's open source programs office, Hawthorn was at the center of the Google Summer of Code — a project that has worked with hundreds of projects and thousands of college students since its inception in 2005.
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Ubuntu – Leading Contender In Linux World?
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Probably not. However, Ubuntu may be the leading contender when it comes to luring frustrated Windows users into trying Linux.
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The Prestige of Proprietary Software
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I spent the weekend at the graduation for an art school. I had an overwhelmingly wonderful time -- except for one scenario that kept playing and replaying all weekend. As usual, telling people what I do for a living required some explanation of free and open source software (FOSS).
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Most Influential Women in Technology 2010: Pamela Jones
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Groklaw is an attempt to get geeks and lawyers together, so they can help each other understand the other's world, with the goal of ideally getting better court results based on technical realities
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Am I suffering from the Ubuntu Lucid X memory leak?
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A commenter just wondered if my Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid system's increasing use of swap was due to the known memory leak in X on the soon-to-be-released distro. Could be. After 5 hours 30 minutes of uptime, htop shows 9 MB of swap is being used - or at any rate "reserved." Remember, I have 1 GB of RAM on this Intel video-equipped laptop.
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Drupal founder, Dries Buytaert, on the open source way
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While attending DrupalCon San Francisco 2010 last week, I got a chance to catch up with Dries Buytaert, founder and project lead of Drupal to get some insight beyond the bits and bytes. We talked about the open source way and some of the things he's learned over the past 10 years.
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Maintaining Linux in the home
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Sure there is still a lot of focus on Linux for home use and there are many distributions who's target audience is for home users. do feel that there is something missing in all the hype.
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All Done With Ubuntu (Part 2)
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With my previous article, regarding my decision to end my support for Ubuntu, there were some points that I felt where misunderstood, judging from some of the comments.
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A Digital Forensics Student's Linux Workspace
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Our next entry for the "The $100.00 (USD) Coolest Linux Workspace Contest" was sent all the way from the Netherlands by a digital forensics student named Huseyin.
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Keeping 1000 devs focused: new Debian leader speaks
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Ten days back, the new leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project, Stefano Zacchiroli, began his term as the only elected leader of a free software project. But that's not the only thing that makes Debian unique in the FOSS space.
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My Ubuntu 10.04 strategy
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OK, so I had a not-so-great night running Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx — in release-candidate stage at this writing — and wondered what exactly made things so sluggish during a 2+ hour production session hacking away at Dailynews.com. Was it Firefox 3.6.x swallowing CPU and memory? All the social-networking and cloud-integration stuff running in the background?
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Between all that's been happening in the weeks before the release of Ubuntu's third long-term-support release and what's happening in my own computing oeuvre (hey, if you can throw in an obscure French word every once in a while, why not just do that?) I think schizophrenia (hello, Latin) is my personal order of, if not the day then this Debian-FreeBSD-Ubuntu month.
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Legalizing Linux DVD Playback: Why Bother?
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When writing any beginner's Linux book, invariably the topic of DVD playback comes up, and I always wrestle with what to tell new Linux users about the convoluted legal mess that watching a DVD on a Linux machine has become.
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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS will change Linux
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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS will be released today. Chris Dollmont gave me a demonstration on his Thinkpad last weekend and I was very impressed. It is one of the most talked about releases for Ubuntu that WILL change how people view and use Linux.
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Linux.com T-shirt Design Contest Finalists Announced
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Two months ago we invited the community to create its own unique designs to appear on Linux.com Store merchandise [...] we’ve received more than 100 submissions and today, after some grueling decision-making, we are announcing the T-shirt design contest finalists!
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