I have upgraded my systems around 30 times with new versions. In the office, I use Ubuntu, and I also keep abreast of SUSE and Mandriva. However, all these distributions have one feature in common— they get updated twice a year, with a lot of excitement and curiosity generated around each new version.
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Linux Oggcasts Speak About Novell’s Imminent Sale
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"Linux Outlaws" and TLLTS voice their opinion on the subject of Novell takeover while The Register contributes disinformation
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ACM group honors LLVM creator
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The ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN) presents its first-ever Programming Languages Software Award to Chris Lattner of Apple Inc. for his design and development of the Low Level Virtual Machine (LLVM), a compiler infrastructure that has been quickly adopted by a wide array of industry and academic organizations.
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Gentoo Screenshot Contest 2010
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Gentoo Users, Developers, and Staffers are encouraged to submit their sweetest screenshots. Please head over to the 2010 Contest Page for all of the details.
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Linux hardware woes
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I have spent the better part of the weekend finally experiencing what so many new Linux users experience - Hardware woes. I purchased a nifty Wacom CTL 460 pen tablet for my budding artist step daughter. I assumed it would be a no-brainer. Oh was I ever wrong.
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Eclipse Community Survey shows good growth for Linux
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Linux and OpenJDK both make good showings in the results of the Eclipse Community Survey
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Developer Survey Reveals Greater Linux Development
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The Eclipse Foundation has released its 2010 Eclipse Community Survey results, which reveal an interesting snapshot of one slice of the development community.
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Sensationalism Isn’t Helping Linux
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From everywhere in the Linux online community, you will find articles that speak of the time, situation, or market opportunity that has made a perfect storm for market-shifting amounts of people to move from Microsoft Windows or Apple Mac OS to Linux.
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Eight Ways GNOME Could be Improved
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Not too long back, I highlighted my feelings on KDE. I want to show you that the GNOME desktop has a number of issues that need attention as well.
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An appeal to upstream KDE developers
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While I have stopped using KDE almost two years ago, I don’t hate KDE per-se… I have trouble with some of the directions KDE has been running in – and I fear the same will happen to GNOME, but we’ll see that in a few months – but I still find tehy have very nice ideas in many fields.
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Geek Of The Week: Richard Stallman
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Many of you are probably asking… who is Richard Stallman? In a nutshell, he is the reason we have freeware today. He is largely responsible for the popularity of the Linux operating system (including Linux-based derivatives like Android), and the open source community.
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Desktop GNU/Linux Does Not Need ‘Saving’
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Response to fear mongering from IDG, which uses a tricky line of reasoning to suggest that "desktop Linux has floundered" (which it hasn't)
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MeeGo, Android, ChromeOS - Signs of Linux REALLY Going Mainstream Finally?
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Ever since I have started learning and using Linux, this is something I always thought "was happening" and never knew when it will "really happen". And the thing is called mass Linux adoption. Why is it necessary? How is the likes of Android, MeeGo and Chrome OS is going to change the world as we know it forever?
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The most important Ubuntu article you'll read this year (and last ... and maybe next)
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My Ubuntu rants hold not a candle to this reasoned, impassioned commentary on what's wrong with open-source software in general — and the Ubuntu project in particular — from Benjamin Humphrey, who just happens to be a Ubuntu contributor. It appears in the nearly never-negative OMG! Ubuntu! blog with the title "Many hands make the light work; few make it shine."
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Is Ubuntu committed to free software?
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Of course we are! At least according to our philosophy.
Still, many people don't think that Ubuntu is truly committed to free software in practice. I raised an interesting debate which took place on the Anarchism Reddit about whether it is better to be a purist or not. It started out by talking about Facebook and moved on to Ubuntu. The purist side made a very good argument with this:
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