The first day of Camp KDE is behind us, with the first of the many presentations being well attended.
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The linux.conf.au 2010 opens
The linux.conf.au 2010 opened this morning in Wellington, New Zealand, welcoming over 700 technologists, bringing together the best and brightest minds in the free and open source software community.
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Many Thanks! - Ubuntu Women Project - Leader Appointed
Earlier today Lyz Krumbach sent an email to the Ubuntu Women Project mailing list announcing that the Ubuntu Community Council had appointed me as the interim leader of the Project.
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Looking for a Linux job?
Years ago when I first started out with Linux, I remember talking to a recruiter about trying to find a job with Linux skills. The recruiter was clueless and asked me 'But do you know Solaris?'
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My open-source destiny: less hobbyist, more regular user, with stability the goal
I've been approaching the point over the past year where I'm becoming much less a free, open-source software-using hobbyist, trying out the various Linux distributions and BSD projects to see how they run, and am now pretty much a regular user of one open-source operating environment, with productivity and stability being the only thing that matters.
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23rd Jan 2010 Ubuntu User Day
User Days was created to be a set of courses offered during a one day period to teach the beginning or intermediate Ubuntu user the basics to get them started with Ubuntu....
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Camp KDE About to Start!
Tomorrow morning, the third major North American KDE event will start with an introduction by Jeff Mitchell and Aaron Johnson. At 11:00 a keynote by University of California San Diego professor Philip Bourne will introduce us to the university's Open Data initiative and after a lunch we'll get going with the various presentations.
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FOSS Hut registration started for FOSS Meet @ NITC
A FOSS Hut is an area dedicated to a specific focus area in FOSS, be it a project like KDE, community like SMC, user groups, special interest groups like mappers or start ups depending on FOSS.
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Nexus One FAIL
We’ve already been looking forward to the Nexus Two here at IT Pro, but it seems that the Nexus One hasn’t actually done as well as the Google publicity machine would have us believe.
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Linux.com Launches New Jobs Board
Employers and job seekers gain a targeted resource for fastest growing area of IT industry
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Taming ubuntu-mozilla-daily with Pin-Priority: 400
I regularly use a package from the Ubuntu Daily Mozilla PPA. Unfortunately the PPA also contains snapshot builds of Firefox 3.5 and XulRunner 1.9.1, which I want to keep at their standard Ubuntu versions".
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Five Essential Ubuntu Features
I just finished configuring a Vista laptop for my brother, who needs to run some Windows-only applications for college. Whenever I find myself compelled to deal with proprietary operating systems, I'm reminded why I use Ubuntu. Here's a short list of some of those reasons.
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The dark side of Ubuntu Launchpad bugs: mail till you die
I was all chuffed with myself for participating in the Ubuntu process through commenting on bugs in Launchpad. Then the e-mail started to annoy me. I unsubscribed to the bugs. The mail kept coming.
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Some things in Linux are hard. Get over it!
In the continuing scuffles between the various operating system advocacy's there is a recurring argument against Linux that it is hard to use. I emphatically disagree. Using a configured Linux distribution is no different to using any other configured operating system.
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Former Microsoft Intern Gives Thumbs-up to Ubuntu GNU/Linux
Former Microsoft guy switches to Ubuntu "cold turkey" and reports back
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