Fear, uncertainty, and doubt require money to exist and to be spread. When Shane wrote about the economics of FUD he was not necessarily referring to one’s ability to buy FUD from Linux companies. As we looked closer, however, it became evident that Microsoft simply paid Linux distributors to insinuate that Linux requires legal protection.
Read more »Two Gnome easter eggs
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Want to have a little bit of fun with your Gnome desktop? here are a few easter eggs for you.
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Has Linux adoption stabilised?
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Looking at the w3school OS Statistics it shows that linux has been pretty much stable in its usage for the last couple of years. Does this mean that us Linux fanboyz are all talk and no action? If Linux has stabilised in its adoption then where are all the new users? Windows Vista has been increasing rapidly and is just about to surpass Linux
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How Ruby can enable the Web 2.0 Platform...
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"...Again, if you're going to be a general purpose platform, you need to be able to fetch, update, notify and display that data. Web 2.0 integration usually happens via JSON data structures and REST interfaces..."
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Understanding the Common User: Everything should be as simple as it is
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Let’s begin with - Linux is simply the best. Open, free of charge, stable, reliable, flexible, and scalable. And God only knows why people do not want to use it. They grumble that it’s difficult, shows hardware problems, and lacks applications.
Read more »Trevino's Ubuntu Repository: feisty eyecandy
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Many eyecandy 3D apps like Beryl, Compiz, OpenCompositing Compiz Tools and Plugins and kiba-dock snapshots built under Feisty by Treviño using latest available (working) sources from git/svn/cvs...
You can use apt to download and install the packages. Use the following lines in /etc/apt/sources.list and use the command sudo apt-get update to enable downloading from this component.
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Greens don't accept Berlin 'nein' to open source
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The Green Party is accusing the Berlin city government of lacking a coherent IT strategy and thus not being in a position to adequately judge the merits of open source software.
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Your Freedom needs Free/Libre Software
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Many of us know that governments can threaten the human rights of software users through censorship and surveillance of the Internet. Many do not realize that the software they run on their home or work computers can be an even worse threat. Thinking of software as "just a tool", they suppose that it obeys them, when in fact it often obeys others instead.
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Linux coders tackle power efficiency
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"Maybe you'd be better off if you didn't spend so much time looking at your watch."
That, loosely speaking, is the rationale behind a significant change at the heart of Linux that programmers hope will make the open-source operating system more efficient.
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Open source email is the future
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According to Loura DiDio, Yankee analyst and author of the 2007 Global Server Hardware and Server OS Survey, 23 percent of survey respondents intend to migrate away from Exchange Server and adopt an alternative Linux or Open Source email and messaging distribution platform in the next 12 to 18 months.
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Ubuntu wallpaper on Flickr
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New Zealand honors Open Source with awards
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On Oct. 17, New Zealand honors those who make positive contributions to Open Source by presenting the first New Zealand Open Source Awards.
The event, to be held in Wellington, is being spearheaded by Catalyst IT, New Zealand's largest open source provider, and the New Zealand Open Source Society.
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Firefox 3 and Google team up for offline apps
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Mozilla and Google are collaborating on an effort to make web applications work offline.
Firefox 3 will be the first internet browser to offer offline web application support when it launches at the end of this year
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SuperTux, another videgame for Linux
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Jacob’s recent post on Lemmings clone Pingus reminded me of a similar game (similar in the penguin content anyway) which is also great fun to play and can give you that nostalgic feeling. It is basically a Super Mario clone, called SuperTux. Unsurprisingly, instead of the moustached man, you control everyone’s favourite operating system mascot, Tux.
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Study shows that 43% of companies are using FOSS. Followup study shows that 57% of companies have no idea what software they ru
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This is a survey that claims 43% of companies are /already/ using FOSS. Judge for yourself...
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanFrom the very start, directories have served a very useful purpose on the Internet. (One I find useful for example is Free Web Directory). News sites can also be considered directories: they index and categorize news stories! What about categorizing software? In the open source world you get Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat; there are still, believe it or not, shareware and freeware directories like FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and Freeware Downloads (although you need to be careful, as they are not like their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselAbout Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software?, it's clear that the topic of software directories is very hot. Most of what you find on Google, however, are not pointing to free and open soruce software -- or worse, they mix the two. Examples of such sites are Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download, which simply don't focus on "free as in freedom", and still can be used as good free software directories.
