Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu.... the talk of the Internet has been revolving around all the new *buntu flavours since version 9.10 finally started showing up on download servers last Thursday. But while the choice is always good, the number of variants can be confusing, especially for those who are new to the world of Linux.
Read more »DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 327, 2 November 2009
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Mandriva Linux 2010 background contest winners
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Here are the results of the contest Mandriva launched one month ago. This contest was a big success. We received 842 photos. We had to pick 10 photos, choice was really hard. Here are below the 10 winners.
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Survey in Italy: OpenOffice.org Usage in 50% of Companies, GNU/Linux at 63%
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One survey - however biased it may be - claims and demonstrates that Italy's adoption of Free software is well ahead of the rest of the world
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Jeremy Allison on “Why Free Software”
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New video from Jeremy Allison, Samba. Go here for the ogg version.
Read more »Where the battle lines are drawn
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To where do we take the battle in support of OpenSource and Free Software? We are told to choose our battles carefully and not to fight where it is least effective.
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Mono and Fraud
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One reader's thoughts about the spreading of Mono inside GNU/Linux
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Many open-sourcers back an Oracle takeover of MySQL
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A number of influential members of the open-source community are raising their voices about Oracle Corp.'s pending takeover of the open source MySQL database.
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OpenOffice celebrates 100 million downloads since version 3.0
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Just over one year after the release of OpenOffice 3.0, OpenOffice.org (OOo) project developer Joost Andrae has announced that the free office suite has been downloaded more than one hundred million times since the launch of version 3.0. OpenOffice is an open source office suite from Sun Microsystems for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems.
Read more »11 Most Popular Open Source Softwares Of All Time
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Today we are listing here 11 Most Popular Open Source Softwares Of All Time in which most of them are cross-platform.
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Project to encourage Free and Open Source Software use at school level
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There is a reason why the geek image has been stereotyped as a bespectacled IIT lad with a nervous smile on his face. Only the young have the time and the inclination to fiddle around with Operating System kernels and programme source codes just for the fun of it.
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Ontario Linux Fest rocked
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It’s a long way from Florida to Ontario, but it was totally worth it. Spent this weekend in Toronto to attend the Ontario Linux Fest for the first time. It was a smallish show, but the level of enthusiasm was enormous.
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Dell unveils exclusive Microsoft-branded Ubuntu OS
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Dell is currently flogging a cheap-as-chips netbook that apparently comes loaded with that well-known Microsoft operating system, Ubuntu 8.04. Anyone dropping in on the computer maker's UK product website will be able to buy an Intel-based Inspiron Mini 10 laptop for £199 a pop.
Read more »Why Adobe Does Not Like Free(dom) Software
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The real motives behind Adobe's moves and its "open source" point-of-view
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The BBC takes on Ubuntu Linux
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A few days ago, a BBC journalist was on air saying that Ubuntu was "a whole sort of little community of enthusiasts building operating systems for absolutely nothing." Since then, as you can imagine, he's had some angry emails from Linux users, so Canonical sent him over a laptop with Karmic Koala Netbook Remix installed.
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FSFE Fellowship Interview with Leif-Jöran Olsson
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Leif-Jöran Olsson is a language technologist and XML enthusiast with a long history in the Swedish solidarity movement. I sat down for an interview with Leif-Jöran and asked him about his background, his education and the various projects he’s been involved in.
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