A summary piece about what the journos are saying about the Mas. OOXML announcement.
Read more »The Mass. OOXML Announcement: What the Scribes Say
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Video: The source code of democracy
See Alan Dechert from the Open Voting Consortium talks about the importance of changing the voting system.
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Install Songbird on Ubuntu
Songbird is a media player built on Mozilla that is often described as the Firefox of media players because of the growing number of plugins and feathers (skins) that can be applied to the player.
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Open source statistics? Anyone? Anyone?
come on guys, lets help the man out! Is his maths department doomed to use excel next year?
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Damn Small Linux 3.4 live CD goes gold
The Damn Small Linux (DSL) team today released DSL 3.4, a live CD featuring a 2.4.26 kernel and lightweight Fluxbox window manager. "I took a little side trip while working on 4.0 to make a much asked-for version of DSL," chief maintainer Robert Shingledecker said.
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What happened to Show Us the Code?
What ever happened to the guy who wrote this: "Your repeated claims that Linux violates Microsoft’s intellectual property has come to the attention of the Linux community. Not only that, but it’s been reported Microsoft has convinced businesses to pay for a Linux patent that you can’t provide."
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Open source funding back up in Q2
The level of funding in free and open source-related vendors rose over 33% in the second quarter compared to the same period last year, following a decline in the first quarter.
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The top Linux support weaknesses, then and now
In 2003, SearchEnterpriseLinux.com visited the Linux support landscape with a list of Linux support weaknesses. A lot has happened over the past four years, as is evident in the success of Red Hat and Novell's subscription-based support models and the meteoric rise of commercial-grade Ubuntu support, to name a few.
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Palm delays Linux smartphone
Palm will not ship its Linux smartphone until next year, the company's chief executive Ed Colligan disclosed during an earnings call.
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Linux: Suspend2 Becomes TuxOnIce
The 'Suspend2' project [story] has been renamed to 'TuxOnIce' Nigel Cunningham announced on the lkml, "this is for a couple of reasons: In recent discussions on LKML, the point was made that the word 'Suspend' is confusing.
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How to manage your iPod using Rhythmbox in Ubuntu
This tutorial will guide you in using Rhythmbox to manage your iPod in Ubuntu. The steps are specific to Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04) and Rhythmbox 0.10.0.
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WPA In Ubuntu - Sputnik, Inc - Are You Listening?
In the past, I have given Sputnik Inc. rave reviews for an outstanding wireless product here at Lockergnome.
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Is YOUR Standards Body in Microsoft's Pocket?
While big executives usually prefer to turn a blind eye or deny this, there is a lot of ‘monkey business’ going on. Political manipulation and string-pulling are becoming too difficult to ignore, even if the consequences get a little nasty or inconvenient to people with 6-figure salaries [...] O-O-X-M-L: It has “corruption” written all over it.
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KDE 4.0 Alpha 2 Released
The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the second alpha release of the K Desktop Environment. This release comes straight out of Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland where aKademy is currently taking place.
Read more »Get Real or How NOT To Convert Your Grandma to Linux
This article deals with how to treat people that know nothing about Linux, how to teach them what Linux is about and how not to do it to wrong people.
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