Why pay thousands to restrictive software companies when open source programmes are free, easy to use and green?
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Ubuntu: Beyond the Terminal
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Linux, here I come. Making the leap to Linux was a bit scary for me. I've never experienced it before, let alone even seen its interface and what it can do.
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Installing PCLinuxOS - what a breeze
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I’m setting up a PC for my future father-in-law right now. I’m avoiding installing Windows as I hate dealing with it. I’m happy to help him to get to grips with using the machine and doing whatever he wants with it, but not so happy with having to provide Windows support (after all, I don’t use Windows, so I can hardly call myself an expert at it).
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13 Great Open Source Games
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We’ve all heard it. “[Insert open-source OS] has no good games.” You know they are wrong. But what do you do?
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SPIP: Content management for publishers and writers
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Content Management System (CMS) software comes nowadays in all shapes and colours, so you can afford to be picky and choose the one that fits your needs.
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Those Dang DPCs Clogging the MMCSS
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We shall see. Vista is no where near ready for deployment and adopters should—as always—wait until there are several service packs for and the server variant of the OS before upgrading. In the meantime, let me recommend an alternative or two.
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The Linux desktop has truly arrived
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Soon after I joined Novell, I started blogging about our technology directions. My first entry back in April 2006 was entitled “The Linux Desktop has arrived: The better desktop”. I argued that with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 – due to ship that summer – that the time had come for more significant inroads for Linux into the desktop market.
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Introducing the Hardy Heron
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"I am delighted to have the pleasure of announcing the Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04), the next version of Ubuntu that will succeed Gutsy Gibbon (Ubuntu 7.10, due for release in October 2007). [This] release will proudly wear the badge of Long Term Support (LTS)..."
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Linux News: Consumer: Mozilla Makes Bid for Campus Clicks
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Firefox now has a campus edition, according to a Tuesday announcement by Mozilla.
The Firefox Campus Edition gives students access to music, lyrics, cover art, videos, photos and more, with add-ons FoxyTunes, StumbleUpon and Zotero.
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X.Org 7.3 Preview
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Among the new features for X.Org 7.3 include the Xorg server 1.4, adjusting a display's backlight, updated drivers, and support for font catalog directories. X.Org server contains RandR 1.2 support, input hot-plugging, KDrive enhancements, Solaris DTrace support, and EXA improvements.
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Conglomerate XML editor Overview
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Conglomerate aims to be an XML editor that everyone can use.
Conglomerate is perfect open source tool for XML manipulation and editing.
It is suitable for fast DocBook XML creating from text files. Great tool for everyday office and home work.
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Checking Out phpGroupware - the Virtual Office in a Box
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I have been playing around with phphGroupware (version 0.9.16.011) for a little while, trying to get a feel for it. On the surface, it is fairly simple to use. And yet, it is also a fairly complex and flexible system. The question is, just how useful is it?
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Linux, Windows duke it out over energy efficiency
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The battles for energy efficiency aren't just being fought by chipmakers, server and PC vendors, and other hardware companies out there. There's a similar battle heating up on the OS layer between Microsoft and Linux.
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Give time to develop artificial brain
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A Canadian company, Intelligence Realm, last week launched a distributed computing project on Linux called "Artificial intelligence - Reverse engineering the brain". The company has invited members of the public to volounteer and donate computer time to help this project develop artificial intelligence (AI).
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The Big Failure of the FSF
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Explaining what freedom in computing is about, is also talk about the FSF and/or the GNU project; they’re nothing less than the flagship of the free software movement and they’ve made huge steps toward freedom in computing, but they have missed a key point: If the average computer user is not on our side, we’ll get nowhere.
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