I’ve been looking at the vast range of Linux desktop flavours around and I thought it might be interesting to give my opinion on what I believe to be right up there as the best from my experience of trying them.
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Let your inner Video Director loose: "We're Linux" Video Contest 2010
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As you may recall, the Linux Foundation last year ran a video contest that drew a lot of entries, many of which were not only entertaining, but had surprisingly high production values as well. Last year's invitation was to use the popular "I'm a Mac/I'm a PC" ad series as an inspiration, and you can see the winning videos here (all of last year's entries can be found here).
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GNOME Boston Summit 2009
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GNOME Shell-- Jon McCann from Red Hat ran the first Shell session, on design. An amazing amount of progress had been made since the hackfast one year prior that spawned the Shell project, but some major tasks remained.
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When Linux Nerds Choose Mates from the Windows Herd
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Look...let's face this together. Dating can suck. Throw your use/obsession of Linux into the mix and what do you get?
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OU announces Linux course
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The Open University has announced 'Linux - an introduction' a ten week course on the open source operating system aimed at absolute beginners.
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Ubuntu Perspectives: Signs of Change
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Analysis of Canonical's latest moves, which are being defended by some and severely criticised by others
Read more »Thierry Vignaud leaving Mandriva
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I'm on the way out, on my way to new adventures. This will be my last day at Mandriva.
Read more »The Bruno Knaapen Technology Learning Center is Established
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As we've written about this week, The Christo Rey Catholic Church houses a 25 computer learning center for the residents of East Austin. The HeliOS Project provided the computers and manpower to make this place a reality. This center serves the disadvantaged people in the area and we are proud to provide instructors and volunteers to teach computer classes there and maintain the equipment.
Read more »openSUSE Survey 2010 – Participate now
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Participate in the openSUSE survey 2010 to give feedback to the openSUSE project about the distribution, the openSUSE tools environment and the project in general. Let us know where things are in good shape and areas where improvement is needed.
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Why I won't use KDE 4
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KDE always stood for being free to do whatever you want. Surely that’s the philosophy of free software as a whole? If I want to use my machine to herd cats in my garden whilst terrorising them with a giant torch? However, today my objections to KDE 4 were met with an unbelievable barrier of closed-mindedness.
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Linus Happy with Nexus One
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I broke down and bought a Nexus One last week. I generally hate phones - they are irritating and disturb you as you work, but I have to admit, the Nexus One is a winner.
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The Operating System Carousel
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I have currently only one laptop. It’s my several-years-old Toshiba Satellite A75-S2112. I’ve been inclined to wipe my old Toshiba with a lot more frequency than is “normal” for me so that I can give various other Linux distros a try.
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Eben Moglen: It's time to build a free social networking distribution
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"A free software distribution is within our reach," SFLC Chairman Eben Moglen said in a talk about "Freedom in the Cloud" on February 2. "What we need is a really good web server that you can put in your pocket and plug in any place.
Read more »Don't Be Shy
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In this article I shall attempt to relive my experience finding, beginning to use; and finally full conversion into a GNU/Linux desktop user.
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Why You'll Use a Tablet. Yes YOU!
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But I'm going to make an even bolder prediction. I'm going to predict that you, personally, will be using a tablet within 18 months.
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