"...The position of the corporations using Dojo is obvious: They want to see Dojo succeed, and having a unified Grid component will ease their development costs significantly. However, for Mozilla, the goal is slightly more esoteric: We want to see the Open Web succeed (and by which, we mean the advancement of open software, standards, and development practices).
Read more »Freeing the Grid
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NetBeans 6.0 Beta 1 Released (Ruby Edition available)
http://www.rubyinside.com –
"NetBeans is an open-source IDE written in Java (somewhat like Eclipse, but not the same), and version 6.0 is the first with a Ruby-specific edition that focuses solidly on the things that Ruby and Ruby on Rails developers need. The NetBeans team have just released the first beta version..."
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Parley is the new KVocTrain
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Blue GNU interviewed Frederik Gladhorn, of the KVocTrain Project. Frederik tells us about taking over the project and about KVocTrain's name change for KDE 4.
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Windows Guy Takes Ubuntu Gutsy To Work….
http://scitech.teambio.org –
I’ve been experimenting with Ubuntu (Feisty) for about the last two months. In previous posts, I’ve written how pleased I was with the easy of installation, the overall stability and the improved hardware support. It was a nice improvement over past versions of Ubuntu which always left me a bit disappointed when something we take for granted in the Windows world just flat out didn’t work.
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Linux and the Desktop, a New Angle
http://www.bmighty.com –
IT professionals from small and medium sized businesses were quite vocal last week about the viability of Linux as a desktop alternative. Assuming I am wrong about timing, and considering all the problems associated with Microsoft Vista, what will it take for more SMBs to make the switch?
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Will free office suites supplant Microsoft as the industry leader?
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Quite a bit of talk has arisen today over two of Microsoft's competitors (Google and IBM) offering free office suites in an attempt to supplant Microsoft as the office king. And now that this is happened, some are wondering if Microsoft will finally face reality and offer its own Office product for free so it can compete.
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Ignoring open source is costing us dear
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Firefox, the browser that dared to challenge the supremacy of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, has just reached 400m downloads - and deservedly so. It now claims a market share of nearly 20% in the UK and 30% in Germany. Firefox, part of the admirable Mozilla Foundation, is based on open source, created and improved on by volunteers all over the world.
Read more »Status Report From the Open Source Games Community
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"Free Gamer, an open source gaming blog, has recently become the center of open source artists, developers and gamers. In its forums, the GPU-hungry Classical Java RPG and the Neverball-killer irrlamb have found their second home.
Read more »Vista Pushes Linux Into Primetime
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It is hardly a fluke that Ubuntu really began to attract former Windows users roughly around the same time as Windows Vista came out. Despite the number of Windows migrants who eventually floated back to Windows XP, the fact is that projects like Wubi make it really easy to slide into a Linux mindset.
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Top 9 Things Thunderbird Will Need to ‘Make It’
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When it comes to communication, my preferred method is either email or IM. The telephone thing really doesn’t do it for me too much. While I do spend a great amount of time typing into a Gaim/Pidgin chat window each day, it’s my email application that takes the cake.
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Help the Miro project
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"The Participatory Culture Foundation, makers of Miro, the great open source video player is running a fundraising to ensure the project’s continuity for the rest of the current year. The goal is $50,000 by the end of September..."
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Should Mozilla release a Linux?
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"Maybe Mozilla’s marketing skills should be harnessed by Linux to turn a wonderful product into something people actually want to use."
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Mozilla Opens the Doors to Firefox 3 Alpha 8
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"Mozilla today made the next testing version of its upcoming Firefox 3 browser, code-named Gran Paradiso, available for download..."
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update on the cost of monoculture in Korea
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"Some of you may remember a popular post I had earlier this year called “the cost of monoculture” which looked at the de-facto monopoly that Microsoft Internet Explorer has in South Korea for a number of historical and technical reasons. There has been some movement on this topic recently and I wanted to share this information with everyone..."
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ErlyBird 0.15.0 Released - An Erlang IDE based on NetBeans
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"I'm pleased to announce ErlyBird 0.15.0, an Erlang IDE based on NetBeans. This is a major features release. This release will only provide all-in-one IDE package, which is in size of 17.6M..."
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