They think Ubuntu IS Linux...many of them do anyway. When I tell them that there are other distros available, some give me that blank stare reserved for those who have just been presented with a fact that they should have already known. I know the stare well...I am accomplished at it.
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ShareSource does Mercurial too!
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ShareSource, a leading website for collaborative open source development adds Mercurial to it's line of Version Control Systems
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Linux Social Bookmarking Launched
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Tolagomi is a Linux Social Bookmarking. User can submit news, vote news, send news, read and write comment about Linux.
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Open Solutions Alliance member on interoperability
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Launched in February, the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) came together to help open-source application vendors make their products work better together and gain visibility among enterprise users.
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SourceForge unveils the winners of the 'open-source Oscars'
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Popular open-source software development site SourceForge.net hosted the equivalent of the open-source Oscars on Thursday evening, billing the event as a big party, not a painfully long and formal awards ceremony.
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Software stack targets Linux devices
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Fluffy Spider Technologies (FST) and Open Kernel Labs (OKL) are readying a jointly-developed software stack that targets Linux-based embedded systems and devices. Due for release by year end, the combined stack integrates the former's "FancyPants" lightweight GUI (graphical user interface) platform with the latter's "OKL4" microkernel and virtualization technology.
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Using Epiphany with WebKit
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GNOME's Epiphany web browser recently gained support for rendering HTML with WebKit. The patch for WebKit support in Epiphany—which was experimentally implemented at the GNOME GUADEC conference—is now available for testing.
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So You Want to Be a Linux Developer, Part 2
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Generally, it's hard for a new graduate to land a job as a developer at a major Linux house without getting some exposure and experience first, according to Barry Klawans, a founding member of the Open Software Alliance and CTO at JasperSoft. The goal for open source companies is to find good people.
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Why (almost) Everyone Should Try Ubuntu
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If you're a hardcore Gentoo or Slackware type, go away and read something else. You're probably not going to like what I'm about to say. (But rest assured that I respect and admire your dedication to running the leanest GNU/Linux install you can muster, and I do indeed care about preserving your freedom of choice.) For now, however, I'm talking to the newbs out there.
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Linux Kernel Performance Improvements
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On July 22nd a new set of kernel packages was released for Vector Linux, my chosen primary and current favorite distribution.
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Mindquarry GO beta: online collaboration
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The open source collaborative software platform, Mindquarry, earlier this week launched the beta of its hosted collaborative service, Mindquarry GO.
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Intel aims parallelism aid at open source fans
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Hoping to inspire people to write code that can run on its multi-core processors, Intel has open sourced one of its development packages.
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Is Xen ready for the data center? Is that the right question?
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Article after article and post after post have compared and contrasted Xen, VMWare, Veridian, and a host of other virtualization technologies, with opinions on performance, management tools, implementations, etc., etc. in abundant supply.
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Email Call to Action
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Do you think email is important part of Internet life? Are you interested in seeing something interesting and exciting happen in the mail space? Believe that Thunderbird provides a much-needed option for open source email alternatives and want to see it get more attention on its own? Long to see something more innovative than Thunderbird in the mail space happen?
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Ten commandments for Ubuntu
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I was fortunate to keynote this year's Ubuntu Live conference. I rarely give the same presentation twice, as I figure people are paying to hear something new.
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