50 Open Source Replacements for Really Expensive Software Datamation: "The "Great Recession" has businesses and consumers alike looking for ways to cut costs. That includes looking for cheaper alternatives to expensive software." (Aug 17, 2010)
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KDE 4.5, through my GNOME eyes Open Attitude: "Such is the power of the Internet that I can actually feel you wincing as you read that title." Aug 20, 2010
The People Who Support Linux: At Work and at Home (Sep 3, 2010, 00:06 UTC) (17 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "Chase Crum is a U.S. Army veteran, a Shriner, an IT infrastructure manager, and a member of The Linux Foundation. This certainly does not capture all that defines Chase, but it begins to illustrate where he derives his ideas about Linux, community and giving back."
Use Ubuntu/GNOME Desktop as Alarm Clock (Sep 2, 2010, 23:02 UTC) (347 reads)
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(feedback) Tech Source: "You may find our Python alarm clock too geeky or complicated, so I thought I should share with you an easier way to use your Linux desktop (particularly Ubuntu and other GNOME-based distributions) as alarm clock."
Oracle Squelches Open Source Spirit (Sep 2, 2010, 22:17 UTC) (561 reads)
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(feedback) Serverwatch: "Microsoft used to be known as the Great Satan when it came to enterprise operating systems. Now it seems Oracle has taken over software hell."
Samsung unveils Android tablet with 3G telephony (Sep 2, 2010, 21:32 UTC) (711 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Devices: "
Samsung Electronics announced its much-anticipated Android consumer tablet, due to ship in Europe in mid-September. The Samsung Galaxy Tab runs Android 2.2 on a 1GHz Cortex-A8 processor, and offers a seven-inch, 1024 x 600 capacitive touchscreen, a three-megapixel camera..."
Linux machines with no rebooting…? Is this what we want? (Sep 2, 2010, 20:47 UTC) (1193 reads)
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(feedback) Standalone Sysadmin: "The other day, I caught a message that KSplice was available for Fedora. I thought I’d be a wiseguy and I replied “Yeah, great. Call me in 20 years when it’s available for for RHEL”. Well, as several people pointed out, it turns out the joke is on me."
SECURITY: Best Practices with sudo on Linux (Sep 2, 2010, 20:04 UTC) (1145 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Planet: "Ubuntu's use of sudo to simplify Linux administration is ingenious, but barely scratches the surface of what sudo can do. Follow along as Yvo Van Doorn of Likewise Software unlocks the powers of sudo."
ArtistX 0.9 Screenshots (Sep 2, 2010, 19:34 UTC) (692 reads)
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(feedback) Easy Linux CDs: "ArtistX is an Ubuntu GNU/Linux-based live DVD that includes a pretty big lineup of free multimedia applications. The most recent version, ArtistX 0.9 is based on Ubuntu 9.10 and features the 2.6.31 Linux kernel, GNOME 2.28, KDE 4.3.5, Compiz Fusion, Ubiquity Installer, and more."
Three locks for your SSH door (Sep 2, 2010, 19:04 UTC) (1202 reads)
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(feedback) IBM Developerworks: "Summary: Security always requires a multi-layered scheme. SSH is a good example of this. Methods range from simple sshd configuration through the use of PAM to specify who can use SSH, to application of port-knocking techniques, or to hide the fact that SSH access even exists."
Qt and Layouts (Sep 2, 2010, 18:04 UTC) (961 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Journal: "When I first started with graphics - I plotted pixels onto the screen by calculating a memory address and then poking the corresponding value. Times have changed since then."
Who Contributed The Most During X Server 1.9? (Sep 2, 2010, 17:34 UTC) (990 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "Two years ago we compiled a list of the top contributors to the X Server over the years and that was followed by compiling a similar list of the developers behind Mesa. Tiago Vignatti has now compiled some statistics surrounding the top contributors to X.Org Server 1.9..."
Microsoft Argues That Android Isn't 'Free' (Sep 2, 2010, 17:04 UTC) (1634 reads)
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(feedback) EnterpriseMobileToday: "As the launch of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 devices nears, the company has been telling those who will listen that one of its prime competitors' mobile operating system -- Google's Android -- is more costly than its own offering, even though the open source OS is free."
SCO gets more time to file appeal brief regarding its loss to Novell (Sep 2, 2010, 16:34 UTC) (669 reads)
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(feedback) Groklaw: "SCO filed a motion asking for more time to file its appeal brief with the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. They needed 10 more days, and Novell agreed to it, so the clerk signed off on it the same day the motion was filed, and the new date for SCO to file its brief will be September 9."
Valve is Looking For Someone Who Can "Port Windows Games to Linux" (Sep 2, 2010, 16:04 UTC) (1553 reads)
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(feedback) Tech Drive-in: "Valve is all too familiar with gaming folks out there. They are the guys behind the awesome STEAM online gaming platform. They were in a bit of controversy recently when they denied all reports of a Linux version of their famous online gaming platform. But once again, Valve is in the news."
7 Things You Can Do in KDE, But Not in Windows (Sep 2, 2010, 15:34 UTC) (2997 reads)
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(feedback) Datamation: "When I go on to tell them that the KDE desktop is in many ways more innovative than Windows 7, the looks of pity changes to caution. I am not only a fanatic, they conclude, but delusional and potentially dangerous."
New Breed of Patent Claim Bedevils Product Makers (Sep 2, 2010, 15:04 UTC) (1352 reads)
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(feedback) Wall Street Journal: "Raymond E. Stauffer was shopping at a New Jersey mall when he noticed something peculiar about the bow ties on display at Brooks Brothers: They were labeled with old patent numbers."
Automating your Android Phone with SL4A (Sep 2, 2010, 14:34 UTC) (881 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Planet: "Back in Part 1 we learned how flexible and script-able Android is, and installed the SL4A scripting layer. Today Paul Ferrill teaches more about how to write custom Android scripts."
Comment: The hype is over (Sep 2, 2010, 13:04 UTC) (1432 reads)
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(feedback) The H Open: "The "best open source software for business" list contains almost exclusively well-known contributors. Is there no more new open source?"
A story about updates and people (Sep 2, 2010, 12:34 UTC) (971 reads)
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(feedback) Máirín Duffy: "A bit of discussion about update policy in Fedora has been brewing lately and I’ve been reading and thinking (and stewing and moaning and wringing my hands) about the discussion a lot. I noticed a few archetypes in the positions taken throughout the discussions:"
Step By Step Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) LAMP Server Setup (Sep 2, 2010, 12:04 UTC) (1077 reads)
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(feedback) Ubuntu Geek: "In around 15 minutes, the time it takes to install Ubuntu Server Edition, you can have a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) server up and ready to go. This feature, exclusive to Ubuntu Server Edition, is available at the time of installation."
Reviewed: KDE 4.5 (Sep 2, 2010, 10:04 UTC) (2094 reads)
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(feedback) TuxRadar: "Trepidation. That about sums up the feeling of upgrading to a new version of KDE. You want to like it, but are afraid that whatever has been fixed will be counterbalanced by something rather sucky."
This was the year of desktop Linux (Sep 2, 2010, 08:04 UTC) (2218 reads)
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(feedback) Dana Blankenhorn: "Desktop Linux is the same sort of deal. Linux believers always assume that next year will be the year of desktop Linux. Windows followers often chide those who seek Linux with that belief, both here and elsewhere."
IBM ships 5.2GHz chip, its fastest yet (Sep 2, 2010, 04:04 UTC) (2186 reads)
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(feedback) Cnet: "IBM's newest chip for mainframes boasts one of the highest speed ratings to date and will go into Big Blue's fastest mainframe computers."
7 Providers of Pre Installed Linux Laptops/PCs (Sep 2, 2010, 02:04 UTC) (2755 reads)
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(feedback) Tech Drive-in: "Not many mainstream PC manufacturers have a Linux preinstalled version of their products. But some do have and the there are many other not-so-mainstream providers of Linux preinstalled laptops, netbooks and PC's. Here are a few of them you should know."
Startup Offers Angry FB Users an Alternative (Sep 2, 2010, 00:04 UTC) (2306 reads)
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(feedback) Internet Evolution: "Is it possible for four young people, the ink barely dry on their NYU diplomas, to battle a social networking giant and win? Is there enough pent-up anger against Facebook to translate into a wholesale exodus from the site?"
A snapshot of a Lan party. (Sep 1, 2010, 23:03 UTC) (2373 reads)
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(feedback) Technology & Life Integration: "Three computers, each running Linux, Windows and MacOS respectively meet up at a lan party. It is a typical lan party. A semi dark room, lit only by the glow of monitors with network cables snaking haphazardly across the floor littered with empty bottles, crushed chip packets and piled up against the wall, a stack of pizza boxes"
Python Multimedia: Animations Examples using Pyglet (Sep 1, 2010, 22:17 UTC) (1562 reads)
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(feedback) Packt: "This article by Ninad Sathaye, author of Python Multimedia Beginner's Guide, will introduce you to the fundamentals of developing animations using Python and Pyglet multimedia application development frameworks."
Using Spell Checking in Vim (Sep 1, 2010, 20:47 UTC) (1396 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "Mark Twain has been quoted as saying that he respected a person who could spell a word more than one way. Unfortunately, Twain's enthusiasm for creative spelling isn't widely shared today, at least in the professional world."
LinApp - Most Comprehensive Collection of Commercial Linux Applications Ever (Sep 1, 2010, 20:03 UTC) (2159 reads)
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(feedback) Tech Drive-in: "After browsing through LinApp website for sometime, I was awed by the sheer number of commercial applications available for Linux. Never in my wildest of imaginations did I thought that, this many number of commercial applications ever existed for Linux."
Froyo Five-pack of Android Tablets from Archos (Sep 1, 2010, 19:33 UTC) (1839 reads)
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(feedback) EnterpriseMobileToday: "Archos today introduced five Android-powered tablets, two due out this month and three later in the fall, ranging in price from $100 to $349, all shipping with Android 2.2."
VMware doesn't like Windows (Sep 1, 2010, 19:03 UTC) (3181 reads)
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(feedback) Cyber Cynic: "A friend recently asked me if I really wanted VMware, a company with a former Microsoft guy in charge, VMware, to buy Novell? His unspoken message was "Wouldn't that be horrible for Novell's Linux?" "
Navigating a Dual World: GNU/Linux and WIndows (Sep 1, 2010, 18:33 UTC) (1787 reads)
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(feedback) Djere Web Services: "My household is not a pure GNU/Linux household. I do have one Windows 7 computer system due to the fact that I have some family members that prefer Windows. As a web designer, computer programmer, and a business man, I take full advantage of this situation."
Firefox 4 vs. Firefox 3 -- Visual Differences (Sep 1, 2010, 18:03 UTC) (4267 reads)
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(feedback) Ubuntuka: "There is rather lively buzz around Mozilla Firefox 4 future release that should happen soon and of course meet all the expectations of the community and millions of Firefox users. But what do they all expect to see in the latest version and why its long-awaited final release should be a great deal?"
What Paul Allen and Larry Ellison Have in Common (Sep 1, 2010, 17:33 UTC) (1907 reads)
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(feedback) Computerworld UK: "The trouble with that line of attack, of course, is that it's complete nonsense. Interval Research was not an “an early, ground-breaking contributor to the development of the internet economy”: I was there, and they had zero impact whatsoever"
Photography with Open Source and Linux (Sep 1, 2010, 17:33 UTC) (2253 reads)
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(feedback) Worldlabel: "Photography on the free software desktop has come a long way in recent years. All of the major desktop environments support camera import and provide image management and editing applications, including the all-important raw file conversion."
Lower Merion School District ordered to pay plaintiff's lawyer $260,000 (Sep 1, 2010, 17:03 UTC) (1496 reads)
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(feedback) Philadelphia Inquirer: "A federal judge Monday ordered the Lower Merion School District to pay about $260,000 now - and potentially much more later - to the lawyer who brought the lawsuit over the district's webcam monitoring."
