Recently Internetnews.com had a story that Canonical the company behind the Linux distribution Ubuntu, estimates that 8 million plus people use it’s popular operating system.
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Million’s of Linux Users, they can’t all be experts.
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Switching your kids to Linux
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Based on some of the feedback on my previous postings, there seems to be some interest in this topic. I'm sure that this is more like Perl than Python (there is more than one way to do it), but this is how I managed it....
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How Linux Supports More Devices Than Any Other OS, Ever
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O'Reilly Media recently interviewed Greg about his claim that the Linux kernel now supports more devices than any other operating system ever has, as well as why binary-only drivers are illegal, and how the kernel development process works.
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Free Software Aids Dutch Coin Design
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The whole design was done for 100% with free software. The biggest part consists of custom software in Python, of course within the SPE editor. For the visual power I used PIL and pyCairo. From time to time also Gimp, Inkscape and Phatch helped quite a bit. All the developing and processing was done on GNU/Linux machines which were running Ubuntu/Debian.
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Debian Project News - November 3rd, 2008
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"Welcome to this year's 14th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Some of the topics covered in this issue include: _______
* Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 updated
* Debian membership
* First Lenny Bug Sprint finished successfully
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Not Free at Any Price - Why I switched to the OLPC—and why I dropped it, by Richard M. Stallman
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"The One Laptop Per Child project, launched by MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte in 2003, was supposed to lead millions of children around the world to information technology and freedom [...] I now expect that the main effect of the OLPC project—if it succeeds—will be to turn millions of children into Microsoft users.
Read more »Faces behind Popular Linux Distros
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Have you ever wondered who are the people behind Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware,..? Stop wondering and have a look at faces behind popular Linux Distros.
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GNU IceCat included into Ubuntu
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Graziano Sorbaioli: « On the gNewSense forum there is a topic about including GNU IceCat in Ubuntu. Someone asked Ubuntu developers to include it in the repositories for the Intrepid Ibex release but they said no... »
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AGPLMail -- by Ben Webb - a teenager dreaming of freedom - in computing and in life
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"Free software is a good thing, its empowering, I might even go as far as to say its the way things should be done. One of the biggest threats to free software at the moment is “web services”, or if you’re an airy fairy Web 2.0 person “The Cloud” (airy could, geddit?).
Read more »5 Interesting Linux Distro Names
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Debian? Ubuntu? Sidux? Pardus? Mepis? Gentoo? Whoa! Why are these Linux distros so strangely named? Why not name a OS simply - door, room or window? Although, Linux distros have very strange names but it is interesting to know, why they are called so?
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LATIN AMERICA: Campus Party to Bridge Digital Gap
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"...One of them is Diego Saravia from Argentina, who says free software is not only indispensable for narrowing the digital gap but is « the only way to use it in an ethical manner. We are talking about freedom of knowledge, so that human beings can acquire the necessary tools for surviving in the world that is emerging.» ..."
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free software laptop campaign
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"Finally I did it. I decided to point to an higher goal asking Dell to produce a free software laptop. I made a campaign in english and italian inviting all the people to ask Dell for a machine with coreboot, atheros wireless chipset and gnewsense preinstalled. Now I am asking your support..."
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FSFE Newsletter
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"This was an important month for Free Software. Not only was Software Freedom Day held (as always) on the 20th, but this years marks the 25th anniversary of the GNU Project. Celebrations took place across Europe and our Fellows continued to support Free Software in local areas with enthusiasm and passion. Other important events took place.
Read more »Ibex design: user switching, presence and session termination
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With Intrepid on track to hit the wires today I thought I’d blog a little on the process we followed in designing the new user switcher, presence manager and session management experience, and lessons learned along the way.
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Limber up the wiki for Kubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and KDE 4!
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Due to the release of Kubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and the change-over to KDE 4 the German speaking Kubuntu Community set up a competition for best KDE 4 and Intrepid related wiki-articles on http://www.kubuntu-de.org
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