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Read more »Push-Polling Against the “G” in GNOME
Richard Stallman and what seems like “Jobs' mob”/Mono mob in a debate over GNOME's views on Free(dom) software
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Chrome OS and the death of the Free desktop: a response
The article “Google Chrome OS. Or, how KDE and GNOME managed to shoot each other dead” is intentionally outspoken and controversial. It invites comment and criticism - one can hardly declare two of the best known and most widely used Free Software projects to be “dead” without causing uproar.
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The Linux Command Line - First Edition Is Now Available!
After a two year effort, I have released the first edition of "The Linux Command Line" in all of it's 522 page glory!
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My Love – Hate Relationship With Fedora
I am a K/Ubuntu user. That means that I am lazy and spoiled. I have access to the largest repositories. I have the biggest and friendliest community. I have lots of podcasts, blogs, IRC channels and help forums devoted to my every need. In short, K/Ubuntu has everything that I need except for one thing. It is not Fedora.
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The Bizarre Cathedral - 62
Latest from the Bizarre Cathedral comic strip by merc and crimperman.
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Linux and windows stereotypes
In our lives we tend to apply stereotypes. Everyone has a stereotype for their work, ethnic persuasion or geographical location. Particularly in the computing industry there exists, often spiteful, stereotypes between windows and Linux advocates.
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Firebird community to Monty : we don’t have such worries!
Firebird is trully *open* (in all aspects). Nobody owns Firebird, nobody can buy it, nobody can close its sources, nobody can charge for it! So, if you are using Firebird, you don’t need to have such worries.
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Fork openSuSE save KDE 3.5!
Save KDE 3.5.10! Save openSuSE with KDE 3.5.10! Fix OpenSuSE 11.1 and dump KDE 4.x.x .... some of us want to see 11.1 work; fix it please!!! We don't need or want KDE 4.x.x.!!!
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GNOME at Risk of Losing Its GNU Status
The core of the Free desktop finds GNOME Planet incompatible with its philosophy
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Ubuntu backup awesomeness
Twas a night before Christmas it was the 12th to be exact at 3 am beside my computer I did sat. My ubuntu did stall, I had pondered and pondered and did a fresh install. Swiftly I got to the the manual partition, then suddenly I had a fine apparition.
Read more »Gnome to Split Off from GNU Project?
According to a recent posting from Philip Van Hoof, he suggests that Gnome split off from the GNU Project and proposes a vote. He has been informed he will need 5% of members to agree for there to be a vote put forth. At the same time David Schlesinger (on the Gnome Advisory Board) has agreed on a vote.
Read more »The GNU/Linux Naming Controversy Quietly Lives On
Should we really have to call it GNU/Linux instead of just Linux?The question lingers in my mind after a recent reader commented and corrected me that I should use the term "GNU/Linux" when referring to the entire operating system. I guess the naming controversy quietly lives on.
Read more »Will Mozilla Thunderbird 3 fail?
Mozilla today officially released Thunderbird 3.0, it's next generation email client. It's got lots of interesting features, but is it too little too late
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Fedora, open source trademarks and FUD
Among the most interesting sessions that I sat in on at the FUDcon Fedora user/developer conference which wrapped up earlier this week was a discussion on trademarks.
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