StatusNet 0.9.0 announcement release. This is the latest version of software that represents almost 8 months of hard work by the StatusNet developer community and that is a basis for identi.ca microblogging service.
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Google and the Tor project
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When it comes to code, Google's support has made a big difference to the Tor Project. Providing privacy and helping to circumvent censorship online is a challenge that keeps our software developers and volunteers very busy. The Google Summer of Code brings students and mentors in the open source community together to write code for three months every year.
Read more »Document Freedom Day 2010
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Will you be able to read your documents 20 years from now? Every day, millions of computer users like you edit text and spreadsheets, take pictures and record audio and video. What if you couldn't read your private letters anymore, or even open that album with pictures from your honeymoon?
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Announcing Connect!
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During the last openSUSE Conference we had a brainstorming meeting about social aspects of our community. We felt that openSUSE is missing something similar than Ubuntu Launchpad or Fedora Community. I created connect.opensuse.org.
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Minting the Girlfriend
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A few weeks back the girl I have been dating for awhile now had idly made a complaint about her laptop being poky at certain tasks. I like this girl a lot and figured it was time to take that next step in our relationship: I offered to put Linux on her laptop.
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Interview With Melissa Drapper
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Once upon a time I wanted to be an environmental scientist, but during one of the projects for a related course, I ended up with the task to create a website. I learned HTML one weekend, and realized I preferred computers to trees.
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The Linux Desktop of the Future
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One of the things I love about Linux is the ambitious and creative people behind it. Anyone with a text editor and a compiler is free to make up whatever strange software experiment they want, without needing to get approval from a huge corporation. With all of these amazing ideas flying around, it made me think, “what would the Linux desktop look like in ten or twenty years?”
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Linux Fund Brings Spend -and-Support Model to the UK
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Last July, the Linux Foundation hit on the bright idea of combining many geeks' favorite activities -- supporting Linux and buying geek gear -- with a Tux-themed Visa Card that donates back to Open Source advocacy.
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Twitter from MySql to Cassandra
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Twitter, the world's most famous Microblogging service picked Cassandra as alternative to their MySql database system.
Cassandra is a no-sql open source distributed database management system. One of the top-level Apache Software Foundation projects, written in Java and first developed by Facebook to develop their Inbox Search features.
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Forget Google Buzz -- Promote OneSocialWeb
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Google Buzz has been getting a lot of attention today, and the buzz (awww!) has drowned out a much more interesting piece of social technology that was announced at FOSDEM 10.
Read more »The Most Expensive Netbook Ever is Running Linux
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The Most Expensive Netbook Ever is Running Linux: Who says Linux netbooks are cheap? At Dell's website, they have posted perhaps the most expensive netbook ever. Its cost? A staggering $100,278 USD.
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Why Linux still 'sucks'
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The good news is that people are increasingly aware and interested in Linux. The bad news is that there are still a number of big obstacles preventing people from being able to switch to the OS.
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New Stable Version 0.2.1.24 released
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Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis.
Read more »KDE 4.4: Does It Work Yet?
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I used to love KDE way back in the KDE 1.x and KDE 2.x days of yore. I migrated away from KDE during the early 3.x days in favor of GNOME. I’m stepping back into KDE from a GNOME user’s viewpoint with a single question in my mind: “Does it work yet?”
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CeBIT 2010
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The H will be attending this year's CeBIT information technology trade show in Hannover, Germany which runs from the 2nd to the 6th of March. This year's theme is "Connected Worlds" and more than 4,150 companies from 68 countries are expected to exhibit their latest products, concepts and technologies
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