Linux Install Too Complicated? Try a Vista Install Community: "Now, if this guide is the way to clean install Vista, then don't ever tell me that Windows users are unable to follow guides for Linux or *BSD installations..." [Link repaired. -ed.] (Apr 29, 2008)
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Update: Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder Wired: "Jurors found Linux programmer Hans Reiser guilty of first degree murder on Monday, concluding he killed his estranged wife in 2006. The verdict followed a nearly six-month trial and nearly three days of deliberation..." [Coverage of post-trial press conference added. -ed] (Apr 29, 2008)
First Look: OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta a Big Step Forward (May 9, 2008, 19:30 UTC) (196 reads)
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(feedback) Ars Technica: "During that time we've seen community fragmentation and frustration resulting from Sun's heavy involvement with the office suite's development, and even a third-party online version that provides editing and collaboration features..."
Multi-Pointer X Going Mainline (May 9, 2008, 18:45 UTC) (448 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "In our article earlier this week looking at the status of X.Org 7.4, one of the features originally planned for integration in this X Server release was MPX, or Multi-Pointer X..."
The Curse of Open Source License Proliferation (May 9, 2008, 18:00 UTC) (233 reads)
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(feedback) Socialized Software: "I remember when the big open source debate was whether a piece of software was really open source, meaning it was released under an OSI-approved license..."
Firefox: Can Browsers Make Bucks? (May 9, 2008, 16:30 UTC) (608 reads)
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(feedback) dot.life: "What's the most valuable piece of web software you use every day? Your web browser, surely. So whoever makes the browser which dominates the market should also make riches beyond the dreams of avarice--shouldn't they...?"
OpenOffice.org Beta Fails the Office 2007 Test (May 9, 2008, 15:00 UTC) (2336 reads)
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(feedback) Washington Post/PC World: "Unfortunately, however, the one feature that I was really looking forward to on the Windows side--compatibility with the Office 2007 XML file formats--could still clearly use a lot of work..."
Software Doubles P2P File Sharing Speeds (May 9, 2008, 12:00 UTC) (1357 reads)
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(feedback) iTnews: "Researchers have developed file sharing software that doubles peer-to-peer transfer speeds by identifying nearby computers..."
Interview with Bluewhite64 Creator Attila Craciun (May 9, 2008, 10:30 UTC) (557 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "Attila Craciun, a Romanian software developer and Linux enthusiast, has ported the Slackware tree to the AMD64 architecture to create the Bluewhite64 distro. We spoke with him to find out about Bluewhite64, where it came from, and where it's going..."
JavaFX: A Bright Future on Open Source-Based Mobile Devices? (May 9, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (1002 reads)
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(feedback) OStatic: "JavaFX is, in Sun's eyes at least, designed to usher in Rich Internet Applications such as rendering multiple high-definition movies concurrently, and rendering and tagging many photos at once..."
The Computer Security Paradox (May 9, 2008, 07:30 UTC) (1328 reads)
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(feedback) Raiden's Realm: "One of the most prized rights of any American is the right to privacy and security. It's something people in some countries would kill for..."
Moonlighting Linux: The Future of Rich Web Apps (May 9, 2008, 06:00 UTC) (1729 reads)
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(feedback) The Linux Distillery: "As we know, static HTML web sites are passé. Yet, Java applets never turned out to be the killer online application platform they possibly could have been..."
Millionaires, Billionaires, and Open Source (May 9, 2008, 01:30 UTC) (1562 reads)
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(feedback) Practical Technology: "Thanks to a recent column by my friend Andy Patrizio, I found out that there's 'been an ongoing debate among bloggers and industry observers over one simple question: Where are the open source billionaires...?'"
Linux Facing First Real Desktop Test (May 9, 2008, 00:00 UTC) (2629 reads)
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(feedback) 451 CAOS Theory: "Let's remember that notebooks are now the dominant form factor for PCs, and emerging markets and new form factors, such as the EeePC, Cloudbook and others offer a new playing field for Linux..."
Free Software Great and Small (May 8, 2008, 22:30 UTC) (1156 reads)
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(feedback) ZDNet: "I recently got to attend a couple of conferences, both of them the really technical kind where I end up learning things..."
SaaS, Open Source and the Migration of Burden (May 8, 2008, 21:45 UTC) (788 reads)
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(feedback) McPherson: "Just the week before I had a reporter ask me how Linux is going to deal with the threat of cloud computing. The threat? I told her that virtually all of the major cloud computing initiatives (except Microsoft’s) are built on Linux..."
Senior Debian Developer Quits Core Teams (May 8, 2008, 20:15 UTC) (1940 reads)
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(feedback) iTWire: "A senior Debian developer, Australian Anthony Towns, has left some core teams of the project and gone quiet in the last couple of weeks, according to project sources..."
Top Ten Reasons for a Linux Laptop (May 8, 2008, 19:30 UTC) (2808 reads)
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(feedback) Really Linux: "You can save yourself serious money, not only at the register but in years to come, avoiding paying for countless upgrades. For all of us paying the crazy food and fuel prices, this is a real easy way to save money..." (Humor)
Geek Sheet: Bare-Metal Backup and Recovery (May 8, 2008, 18:00 UTC) (1835 reads)
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(feedback) Between the Lines: "Tired of the same old punditry and OS wars? Want to read something practical you can actually use and apply to your real job...?"
Red Hat Heads For The JON 2.0 (May 8, 2008, 16:30 UTC) (854 reads)
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(feedback) internetnews.com: "New JBoss Operations Network takes aim at open source middleware management, though the solution isn't entirely open source--yet..."
Open Enterprise Interview: Mike Milinkovich (May 8, 2008, 12:00 UTC) (877 reads)
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(feedback) Computerworld UK: "A couple of years ago, I described the Eclipse project as open source's best-kept secret, and to some extent that's still true today..."
American to Lobby for OLPC Down Under (May 8, 2008, 11:15 UTC) (899 reads)
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(feedback) iTWire: "It's quite characteristic of the cultural cringe that prevails in Australia that a man who works in America, Barry Vercoe, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is coming to the country next week to lobby for the local branch of the One Laptop Per Child project..."
Miniature Linux PC Targets Military Apps (May 8, 2008, 10:30 UTC) (1525 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxDevices: "Mercury Computer Systems announced a Linux-based engineering development kit for a 7-10 pound computer that targets small ground, naval, and air vehicles..."
Linux Got Game: War§ow 0.42 (May 8, 2008, 09:45 UTC) (2329 reads)
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(feedback) Tech Source From Bohol: "Another tip from Free and Open Source gamer extraordinaire SlippJigg encouraged me to try out another action-packed First-person shooter (FPS) game called War§ow last weekend. So what exactly is this game and what makes it interesting...?"
Indexing Offline CD-ROM Archives (May 8, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (1194 reads)
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(feedback) Free Software Magazine: "Suppose you've been good (or sort of good anyway), and you have a huge stack of CD-ROMs (or DVDs) with backups and archives of your old files. Great. But how can you find anything...?"
Tyan Thunder n3600M (May 8, 2008, 08:15 UTC) (1071 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "Two months ago we had looked at the Tyan Tempest i5400XT motherboard, which was Tyan's latest product based upon Intel's newest workstation chipset and had support for dual Intel Xeon quad-core processors..."
ack! (thpppt!) (May 8, 2008, 07:30 UTC) (1725 reads)
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(feedback) Blog of an Alpha Animal: "Yet, the other day I read about ack, which claims to be 'better than grep, a search tool for programmers.' Woo. Better than grep? In what way...?"
Installing an All-in-One Printer Device in Debian (May 8, 2008, 06:45 UTC) (1552 reads)
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(feedback) Free Software Magazine: "Recently I had cause to buy a scanner. Being in a reasonably small home I was eager to save on desk-space, and so decided to upgrade my aging inkjet printer at the same time..."
Migrating to ext4 (May 8, 2008, 04:30 UTC) (2696 reads)
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(feedback) developerWorks: "Linux supports several different file systems. Some are specialized network file systems or file systems developed for other operating systems, but a surprising number may be used as Linux native file systems..."
What is Free Software and How to Make Money With It (May 8, 2008, 03:45 UTC) (1229 reads)
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(feedback) Conversas do Bruno: "As I became more familiar with GNU/Linux and free operating systems in general, I became aware of the Open Source movement. Later, I became aware of the Free Software movement..."
Blogging Live From Ubuntu Live 2008 (May 8, 2008, 03:00 UTC) (1233 reads)
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(feedback) The VAR Guy: "Here are five reasons you should care about the Ubuntu distribution of Linux, and the Ubuntu Live conference..."
AGPLv3 Keeps Open Source Vibrant in Age of SaaS (May 8, 2008, 02:15 UTC) (782 reads)
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(feedback) FOSSBazaar: "Software as a service entered the IT landscape in 2000 and has revolutionized the deployment models of many software companies and even entire industries, such as Internet search..."
Why Many MCSEs Won't Learn Linux (May 8, 2008, 01:30 UTC) (4552 reads)
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(feedback) Managing L'unix: "Nathan's basic question, however, can be paraphrased as something that's both serious and interesting: why do so many MCSEs have such a hard time learning to use Linux...?"
GNU/Linux: Source Code and Human Rights (May 8, 2008, 00:00 UTC) (896 reads)
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(feedback) Datamation: "Ask average computer users what FOSS is about, and, if they've even heard of it, they'll probably say something about the source code being publicly available..."
What's the Deal with Embedded Linux? (May 7, 2008, 23:15 UTC) (1554 reads)
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(feedback) Embedded.com: "'Embedded Linux is the most hyped embedded operating system ever. It is promoted as inexpensive, high quality, high productivity, reliable, widely available, and well supported. It is none of these things…'"
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