For as long as I’ve been involved in GNOME, we have been asked the same questions over and over again: How many GNOME developers are there? Which companies invest in GNOME, and how much? Where can I go for professional GNOME development services?
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If Dreams Were Real: Convergence of Distro and Kernel Versions
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Mark Shuttleworth had a dream: the big Linux distros should agree to have version numbers identical to those of kernel components and refresh them every two years. The dream now is more real than ever.
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An example of the awesomeness of the open source community
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OpenSSO is one of the best (if it isn't the best one) open source web Single Sign On projects out there. It's sad to see Oracle shutting down this amazing open source project. But here it comes the awesomeness of the open source community:
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GNOME and KDE to co-locate 2011 Desktop Summit
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Following the success of last year's Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, the GNOME Foundation and KDE e.V. Boards have announced that they have decided to once again co-locate their flagship conferences, Akademy and GUADEC, in 2011
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Desktop Summit 2011 - Call for Hosts
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The KDE and GNOME communities are looking for a host for the Desktop Summit 2011, the combined annual conference featuring KDE's Akademy and GNOME's GUADEC events. Following up on the successful Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, the second edition of the combined event in 2011 will be the premier place to learn about, discuss, and work on free software on the desktop.
Read more »Lucid Community Progress
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One thing that we have been really keen to facilitate in Ubuntu is an ethos of just do it. I really believe our community should feel engaged to be creative in their ideas and be able to get out there and do it, with plenty of support resources so others can help them achieve their goals.
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Created with Free Software! A button to spread the word
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Last month author did a presentation on the concept of redundancy in a human factor related seminar at university. As most participants were non-IT people and using Windows he felt like promoting Free Software without making it ``too loud''. So he came up with the idea of putting a rubber stamp ``Created with Free Software'' onto the front slide.
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A Debian first: female candidate in running for leader
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For the first time in its 16-year history, the Debian GNU/Linux project has a woman in the running to become leader of the project when voting for the post takes place between April 2 and April 15.
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Why you should switch to OpenSuse
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I have been using Linux for the past 7 years and I have tried many distributions. About, 6 months back I decided to have a permanent copy of one more operating system in my laptop – OpenSuse. And, now I can say that OpenSuse is the best operating system I every used.
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UIC's FlourishConf 2010
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Flourish is University of Illinois at Chicago's free annual conference dedicated to celebrating and elevating open source software and open culture in the Midwest. Through talks, workshops and coding sprints, attendees experience and reconnect with the philosophies and technologies that make the open source movement a key driver of innovation.
Read more »The Case for Cadence
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Time-based release cycles have been extremely beneficial for free and open source software projects and the idea has caught on organically. Taking it to the next level, "meta-cycles" for projects and Linux distributions that consume all of the upstream projects, hasn't gone so quickly.
Read more »Why Window Button Placement Doesn’t Matter
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The default positioning of window-management buttons in Ubuntu 10.04 has generated a lot of controversy. But given the decreasing importance of these buttons in modern desktop environments, I'm left wondering if the issue is really so important. In a year or two, after all, window titlebars may be a thing of the past.
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GNU/Linux: Don't Call Them PC Viruses
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The fact that malware are written primarily for PC systems is a given and is well reported in the news. The fact that malware are written primarily for Microsoft Windows based PC systems is often not reported.
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Red Hat Summit and JBoss World agenda posted
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Red Hat has published the agenda for this year's Red Hat Summit and JBoss World event taking place in Boston, Massachusetts from the 22nd to the 25th of June, 2010
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Ubuntu 10.04: Waiting for the Lucid Lynx
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This'll be short. I read a review of the current incarnation of Ubuntu 10.04, code named "Lucid Lynx" at the In a Tux blog this morning. The author pointed out a number of flaws, great and small, with the Lynx but finished up the review by saying, "This version of Ubuntu 10.04 is not a stable or final release of Ubuntu, so some of these thing my change.
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