If you expect me to argue with the 13 reasons Kim Brebach gives for why the Linux desktop is unlikely to make it to a desktop near you any time soon, prepare to be disappointed. He's right.
Read more »Match:Why the Linux Desktop will succeed despite itself
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Nseer ERP 6.0 isn't fully baked
The big names in open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, such as Compiere, get most of the publicity, but you have another choice: Nseer ERP, from the first Chinese company to open the source code to its ERP software.
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Open News Podcast - episode 26
News stories such as GPLv3 Certified As Open Source, HP To Sell Linux Desktop, Lenovo Wants Linux, Hardy Heron, Software Freedom Day...
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Can VMware end Linux hardware compatibility problems?
A well written and insightful article on how Vmware can help resolve Linux hardware compatibility issues.
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Emacs Pocket Guide
"I wrote this a long long time ago when I was learning emacs, then pasted it on linuxmachos.org, but that site is down atm.
So here’s for future reference"
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Technorati tries to organize the blogosphere
"Technorati has announced a new feature called Topics. Topics is basically a "river of news" from selected blogs in Technorati's six major categories: Entertainment, Technology, Politics, Sports, Business and Life. The stories from these blogs scroll down the page as they are written.
Read more »Top 10 Wikipedia Tricks
"Without a doubt, Wikipedia is one of the most useful and amazing sources of information on the internet—but chances are you aren't using it to its full potential..."
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The Elements of JavaScript Style - Part One
"...There are no good texts on JavaScript programming. Most of the people on the web who are producing JavaScript programs learned it by copying really bad examples from bad books, bad websites, and bad tools. We have an amazingly good community of JavaScript programmers here, but still we can benefit from better practice of style.
Read more »Speeding Up Perl Scripts With SpeedyCGI/PersistantPerl On Debian Etch
"...This tutorial shows how to install and use SpeedyCGI (also known as PersistantPerl) on a Debian Etch system. SpeedyCGI is a way to run Perl scripts persistently, which can make them run much more quickly. It keeps the Perl interpreter running, and during subsequent runs, this interpreter is used to handle new executions instead of starting a new Perl interpreter each time..."
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The free software journalism club
After I posted yesterday's call for stories from or about people who claim to have had comment posts deleted from Groklaw, I received an email from Pamela Jones asking me why I was "doing this."
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Over 130 line up for inaugural Open Source Awards
A number of the nominations come from overseas, in particular the US, and are from people using New Zealand solutions, say organisers
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Can new Solaris beat Linux in server market?
The new Solaris, 10 8/07, is here. The announcement coincides with the company’s OpenSolaris Day event in Boston.
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Linux is not so simple
It seems the average people are constantly being brainwashed by the Linux community about Linux being the perfect replacement to Windows.
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Open Source Alliance's Barry Klawans: In the Vendors' Corner
"We looked around at the other consortiums out there; we didn't want to create another foundation just because we thought it was fun. But they were all aimed at advocating for Linux or infrastructure [tools]. No one was advocating for [vendors] that were looking to build applications for the business world,"
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Tim Kosse on Filezilla
Filezilla is probably the most popular cross-platform FTP client around. Blue GNU caught up with Tim Kosse in the wake of the recent 3.0 release to take stock of this handy utility.
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