"Microsoft Corp. is enlisting Linux distributor TurboLinux Inc. to help tailor work being done to translate documents between Open XML and ODF file formats for Japanese and Chinese users."
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Kicking Around Open Source, Part 2: Warping Time With Podcasts
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Remember back when the primary use for the VCR was recording television shows playing at one time to watch them at a more convenient hour?
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Episode 19
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weekly os news podcast featuring info on gplv3, microsoft, openmoko, sun, redhat, and India...
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Linux-based phone may be iPhone 'injurer'
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With the slogan "The clean form fits your fist. The open system frees your mind," the NEO has been optimistically punted by some as a potential iPhone killer. However, it is unlikely to compete with iPhone's popularity and trendy image... More realistically, it could be seen as an iPhone injurer.
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Catalog shopping comes to open-source software
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Enterprise Open Source Directory, is billed as a one-stop information repository on some 300 enterprise-ready open-source applications that have been evaluated by Optaros for functionality, maturity, community support systems and popularity for business use.
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Linux Administrative tasks LPI exam tutorial
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This tutorial is organized according to the specific objectives of the LPI exam for this topic. This tutorial can help you study for certification — or simply build a solid foundation in Linux system administration
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Open source usage increased in Indian and Asian business
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This news is 100% true; I’ve witnessed lots of growth recently here in India, especially in Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore. Many south states making it compulsory to use Linux and open source software for government funded project.
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The "new" Fedora Board
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We've just completed the first Fedora Board succession process, and I wanted to take a moment to share the results with everyone.
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Open Solutions Alliance Announces Customer Forum Series
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The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), a nonprofit, vendor-neutral consortium dedicated to driving interoperability and adoption of comprehensive open solutions, today announced its worldwide Customer Forum Series.
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Review of the Granular Distro
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Granular (based on PCLinuxOS) offers a visually stunning KDE, certainly the nicest implementation of it in any distro I've yet reviewed; once everything is configured, you enter an alabaster screen that loads all the modules necessary to run the liveCD.
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TinyMe - The little distro that could
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TinyMe is a live cd derivative of PCLOS that offers you the best of its parent, with the small size common to "lite" distributions or "distros" as they're more commonly called. One of the first things I discovered with this distribution is that anyone who tries out TinyMe and is a fan or user of PCLOS will likely feel right at home.
Read more »Dual-booting XP and Linux - It’s really easy!
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Over the past few weeks several people have asked me if it’s possible to set up a Windows XP/Linux dual-boot system on a PC that already has Windows XP installed on it, and if it’s possible, how easy is the process. Well, I’m here to tell you that it’s pretty easy to do.
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Amarok 2.0 Jingle Contest
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The Amarok team needs your help. Amarok are looking for a new, shiny and fresh jingle to play at first start of Amarok 2.0 and are holding a contest to find one. Magnatune and ccMixter have generously offered their help to get this going. The Amarok project will award the winner with fame, glory and a load of cool prizes, including $100 US dollars in cash and cool Amarok swag.
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Easy CD ripping with Konqueror
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Those of the older generation will remember with fondness the black plastic disks with which they treated with such care and respect. The current generation has ipod's and nano's (I don't meant the text editor) and all sorts of portable music players. The biggest problem is how to get the collection of silver plastic disks converted to electronic form for those portable grooving machines.
Read more »How “Wintel thinking” reduces productivity
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For many jobs there’s a PC way and a Unix way. The windows work process kills both productivity and flexibility by denying people the ability to change work processes as they learn.
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