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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Email Call to Action
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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Linux Kernel Performance Improvements
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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So You Want to Be a Linux Developer, Part 2
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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SourceForge unveils the winners of the 'open-source Oscars'
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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Open Solutions Alliance member on interoperability
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.
Read more »Linux Social Bookmarking Launched
Tolagomi is a Linux Social Bookmarking. User can submit news, vote news, send news, read and write comment about Linux.
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ShareSource does Mercurial too!
ShareSource, a leading website for collaborative open source development adds Mercurial to it's line of Version Control Systems
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The Disconnect That Could Fail Thousands
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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SourceForge Community Choice Award winners are....
SourceForge has been running a community-driven awards process over the last month, trying to discover the top open-source projects. On Friday, the winners were announced. The ones selected say a lot about those who frequent SourceForge. But before I get into that, here are the winners:
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Wikia Goes The Way of Open Source Search
Look out, Google! Jimmy Wales is coming for you. The founder of Wikipedia is aggressively building out his Wikia effort, a commercial collection of Web sites anyone can edit. One of its key parts? Search.
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Screaming Monkeys, Mozilla And Microsoft
What do Mozilla, Microsoft and monkeys have in common? A bit more than you might think.
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So Cal Linux Expo Announces Call For Papers
The Linux Expo of Southern California has opened the Call For Papers for the 6th Annual Southern California Linux Expo, to be held February 8th, 9th, & 10th, 2008. As with SCALE 5x, S6x will be held at the Westin Hotel at Los Angeles International Airport.
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this is a rant. i know it is a rant. i need to get it off my chest.
Take the licensing issue. I've been handling licensing matters for Fedora for at least a year now (maybe longer), and admittedly, the new GPL v3 makes things much more complicated.
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The Value of Choice or the Choice of Value?
"When I wrote a passioned statement about how having a choice of distros was a good thing, I decided to list 359 other things that it was good to have choices for. I thought it was a good effort, and still do. But in the course of a week I have also come to realize that other points of view may have some validity, too."
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