Since May, ingimp, a modified version of the GIMP, has collected daily logs on what users do with the program in the hope of improving its usability. The richness of this data is unprecedented, yet improving the GIMP is only a sideshow for the project.
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zsh: The last shell you'll ever need!
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Last week, the all-knowing Mako inspired me to give zsh a shot. He started me off with a .zshrc file, and now a week later, I’ve been spreading the word to as many people as I can. But let’s rewind a bit.
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Zero Configuration Computing: A Reality in Linux
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Flash drives running Linux are not a new concept. Simply install the portable distro of choice onto the removable drive, connect to a target computer, set to boot from USB and enjoy. Earlier today, I came across Calao's USB-9260. Taking the ARM-based Linux approach, I found myself thinking about the possibilities of taking Linux computing to a completely different level.
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Device Profile: Levelstar Icon PDA for visually-impaired users
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Levelstar used embedded Linux to create a PDA (personal digital assistant) for visually impaired users. The "Icon" has a custom hardware design with built-in 30GB hard drive, WiFi, Bluetooth, and USB, and comes with a full complement of "life managing software," much of it written from scratch for blind users.
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Mandriva 2007 Spring Version Review: Part 2
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In the previous piece on Mandriva's usability, we looked at the good and the bad of booting to the Live CD and then finally installing the distribution. In this article, we will pick up with installing software, the available selection of such software and the overall analysis of the distro.
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Linux phone stack becomes more secure
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A la Mobile has added advanced security features to its embedded Linux stack for mobile phones. New security-oriented features in its Convergent Linux Platform (CLP) are said to include pre-boot OS signature checks, filesystem encryption, application sandboxing, and secure OTA (over-the-air) firmware upgrade capabilities.
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Linux powers PDA for visually impaired users
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Levelstar used embedded Linux to create a PDA (personal digital assistant) for visually impaired users. The "Icon" has a custom hardware design with built-in 30GB hard drive, WiFi, Bluetooth, and USB, and comes with a full complement of "life managing software," much of it written from scratch for blind users.
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Grid pays handsome dividends for HR firm
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The mainframe is alive and well at the global human resources consulting and outsourcing firm Hewitt Associates, but it’s getting quite a bit of help these days from a Linux-based grid computing platform.
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California city connects with open-source networking
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The city of Madera, Calif., has spent the last year successfully running an open-source-based network as a replacement for one based on Cisco gear.
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Q&A: Jim Zemlin touts the 'second phase' of Linux
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The Linux Foundation head talks about where open-source software goes next.
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Red Hat flags OSI offenders on partner site
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Sometimes being the open source software leader means distancing yourself from open source claims.
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Leading SOA Expert Contributes Service Modeling IP to Red Hat to Accelerate SOA Adoption
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Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Thomas Erl, a leading service-oriented architecture (SOA) expert and the world's top-selling SOA author, has contributed IP in the area of service modeling to Red Hat.
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OpenBSD Foundation Launched
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The OpenBSD Foundation is a Canadian not-for-profit corporation which exists to support OpenBSD and related projects such as OpenSSH, OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, and OpenCVS. While the foundation works in close cooperation with the developers of these wonderful free software projects, it is a separate entity.
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Linux native installer for The Witcher game
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I am appealing to people from CD Project RED in each fan of "The Witcher" game's name, using Linux operating system for creating native installator for this system platform. Linux is more often and often used operating system, that is why we feel victims, and we are asking for reconsidering this decision.
Read more »Pyro: Fire up your desktop with web apps
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"Pyro is a new kind of desktop environment for Linux built on Mozilla Firefox. Its goal is to enable true integration between the Web and modern desktop computing...."
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