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KDE: It's Time For a Fork Practical Technology: "OK, I've now tried KDE 4.1. I'd been assured that it would be better than KDE 4.0x. It is. That's the good news..." (Jun 29, 2008)
Linux Today Features
Why Linux Developers Are Wasting Their Time Red Devil's Tech Blog: "How many Linux users do you know who, once they have installed a new distribution, are so happy with its default appearance that they leave it alone...?" (Jun 28, 2008)
Garmin Nav Devices Run GNOME Linux (Jul 6, 2008, 12:00 UTC) (1120 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxDevices: "Garmin has posted Linux source code for its Nuvi 8xx and Nuvi 5xxx-series GPS navigation devices..."
Ultrathin Linux PC Envy (Jul 6, 2008, 04:00 UTC) (2228 reads)
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(feedback) Cyber Cynic: "If you're a Mac or Windows user you've got several excellent top-of-the-line ultra-thin laptop choices. If you're a desktop Linux user, your choices aren't that great. So far..."
KDE vs. GNOME: A Screed from a Supposed Corporate Flack (Jul 6, 2008, 00:00 UTC) (2342 reads)
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(feedback) SUSE Linux Enterprise in the Americas: "Ok, so you know that currently SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) 10 defaults to GNOME as the desktop, a move that garnered comments from a few cranky folks in the KDE [KC]amp..."
How Linux App Install Leaves One PC Expert Befuddled (Jul 5, 2008, 20:00 UTC) (3152 reads)
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(feedback) Tech Broiler: "At least that was my initial reaction when I read his 'Linux's dirty little secret' column about his struggles with installing applications onto a Linux distro..."
Home Automation in GNU/Linux (Jul 5, 2008, 16:00 UTC) (2303 reads)
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(feedback) Free Software Magazine: "Home Automation is anything that your home does for you automatically to make living there more enjoyable or productive..."
Portrait: Louis Landry of Joomla! Finds Direction in FOSS (Jul 5, 2008, 12:00 UTC) (688 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "For Louis Landry, a member of the core team for the Joomla! management system, free and open source software (FOSS) is not just a hobby, nor just the technology behind Jxtended, the consulting business in which he is a partner..."
Sidux, a Great Alternative to Ubuntu (Jul 5, 2008, 04:00 UTC) (7194 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxPlanet: "Sidux announced a brand-new release on June 26, Sidux 2008-02, so we're going to kick the tires and take it for a drive, and see what sets it apart from other children of Debian..."
Sun Should Loosen Up (Jul 5, 2008, 00:00 UTC) (1568 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Unix Roundup: "Last week, Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems, stated in an interview that much of the current animosity from the open source community toward Sun has its origins in the way Sun used to treat the community..."
Hey You, Standardize My Cloud (Jul 4, 2008, 20:00 UTC) (1411 reads)
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(feedback) tecosystems: "'What if there were a way to write and run enterprise applications that you could move from cloud to cloud...?'"
Defending Openness in the European Union (Jul 4, 2008, 04:00 UTC) (1844 reads)
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(feedback) Computerworld UK: "One of the most surprising recent developments in the field of openness has been the rise of Europe as a key player there..."
Michael Robertson, Where's the Cash? (Jul 3, 2008, 18:00 UTC) (2169 reads)
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(feedback) Kevin Carmony: "I have been contacted by several Linspire employees and shareholders, asking me what the Linspire asset sale to Xandros means..."
Identi.ca Launches, an Open Source Twitter (Jul 3, 2008, 16:30 UTC) (1275 reads)
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(feedback) Ross Mayfield's Weblog: "Evan Prodromou, one of the better citizens of the wiki community and founder of WikiTravel, launched Identi.ca today..."
Guinness Bestows Download Record on Firefox (Jul 3, 2008, 15:00 UTC) (1439 reads)
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(feedback) CNET News: "The de facto registrar of superlative achievements has credited Mozilla for officially setting a record for downloads in a 24-hour period: 8,002,530 copies of Firefox..."
Openmoko to Release Linux Handset Tomorrow (Jul 3, 2008, 12:45 UTC) (2046 reads)
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(feedback) Register Hardware: "Anyone fond of creating their own applications within a open source environment will soon be able to get mobile. Openmoko has finally announced the launch date of its Neo FreeRunner open-source phone..."
How To Install Ubuntu Linux In 12 Easy Steps (Jul 3, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (2027 reads)
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(feedback) InformationWeek: "Canonical's Ubuntu desktop Linux distribution is one of the more popular versions of the open source operating system, and it's easy to see why..."
Top of the Charts: Five Open Source File Sharing Apps (Jul 3, 2008, 07:30 UTC) (2037 reads)
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(feedback) TechWorld: "The answer to that question may be obvious to some, but the explosion in paid-for, online digital content services in recent years hasn't dented the download rates of free file sharing applications..."
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 [Review] (Jul 3, 2008, 06:00 UTC) (2354 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "Back in March we had looked at the Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 mobile processor with its Penryn core and 6MB of shared L2 cache between its two cores clocked at 2.50GHz..."
The Six Kinds of Anti-FOSS Trolls (Jul 3, 2008, 03:00 UTC) (1783 reads)
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(feedback) Penguin Pete's: "Since I wrote about the seven kinds of anti-Linux FUD pundits, it occurred to me that plain old forum and blog-comment trolls could be classified, too..."
Linux's Dirty Little Secret (Jul 2, 2008, 22:30 UTC) (5354 reads)
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(feedback) Hardware 2.0: "That said, there are a few aspects of Linux that do annoy/frustrate/anger me/make me hulk out* (delete as overall mood dictates), and one of these aspects is so core to an OS that I’m surprised that it hasn't been addressed already..."
The Critics are Wrong: KDE 4 Doesn't Need a Fork (Jul 2, 2008, 20:15 UTC) (3207 reads)
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(feedback) ars technica: "After the recent release KDE 4.1 beta 2 and openSUSE 11 with KDE 4.0.4, some critics have been especially vocal in expressing their displeasure with the KDE 4 user interface paradigms..."
Networking with Ubuntu 8.04 and Windows Part 2 (Jul 2, 2008, 10:30 UTC) (2359 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxPlanet: "Part 2 will give you a tour of the networking interfaces in Ubuntu; which are surprisingly somewhat similar to Windows XP. You'll soon be connecting, checking connection details, and browsing network computers in the Linux world..."
Beating Sandvine on Linux with iptables (Jul 2, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (1967 reads)
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(feedback) Tux Training: "Multiple sites reported a while ago that Comcast was using Sandvine to do tcp packet resets to throttle BitTorrent connections of their users..."
Ndiswrapper in Slackware (Jul 2, 2008, 06:00 UTC) (1317 reads)
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(feedback) PolishLinux: "The following article is about using a HP-530 laptop with Slackware-12.1 and Lantech wireless router with WEP encryption..."
A Symphony For Viola: Parsix 1.5r0 Review (Jul 2, 2008, 03:00 UTC) (915 reads)
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(feedback) Red Devil's Tech Blog: "Regular readers of this blog will know I'm a huge fan of Parsix, the Debian-based Linux distribution created by a small team in Iran..."
Ten Sticking Points for New Ubuntu Users (Jul 1, 2008, 21:00 UTC) (2768 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "With Ubuntu, Canonical has had notable success in convincing people to switch from other platforms, but potential Ubuntu users are still running into trouble in several areas..."
Which Linux Distributions Are Dying? (Jul 1, 2008, 20:30 UTC) (4931 reads)
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(feedback) Coding Experiments: "Like everything else, what goes up must come down. This must apply to Linux distributions too, right? So, what's happening with Linux? Which distributions are growing...?"
Samba Team Releases Samba 3.2 (Jul 1, 2008, 17:15 UTC) (10034 reads)
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(feedback) The Samba Team is proud to announce the release of Samba 3.2, a major new release of the award-winning Free Software file and print server suite for Microsoft Windows clients. Announcement within.
