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- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-07-31 22:23:08 UTC
- Modified: 2008-07-31 22:23:08 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Lenovo to Enter Netbook [with GNU/Linux] Market by Late September
- The more things change
The latest Linux products, in contrast, are obviously better than their predecessors - it’s mostly with respect to installation procedures and oddball hardware support, but essentially every new distribution is genuinely preferable to what came before.
- Interview: Wind River's John Bruggeman
- MS's biggest blunder, uses Linux and Apache and PHP for its infrastructure to promote Windows Vista
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Title: The "Mojave Experiment"
- KDE 4.1 - Wow!
So I downloaded it to work alongside KDE 3.5 and wow, is it awesome! It's almost like an entirely different program, making my darling Ubuntu Gnome desktop look a little boring itself. I may even do a fresh install of Kubuntu in this partition with KDE 4, then upgrade to KDE 4.1. In any case, I'm sure I'll report back with more to say!
- Picking a Penguin
- Linux User Here
- 8 Best E-mail Clients for Linux
Managing e-mail is made easy with the use of e-mail client, also known as e-mail reader. Some e-mail clients can also function as feed reader and can support plug-ins and themes.
When it comes to picking the right e-mail client, Linux users have tons of choices. I have here a list of 8 of the best free and open source e-mail clients that are available for Linux.
- Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5r1 has been released
An updated version of Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5 code name `Viola` is available now. Viola r1 is synchronized with Parsix and Debian testing repositories as of July 24, 2008. This version contains several bug fixes, updated kernel drivers, updated documentation and updated X.Org. Highlights: GNOME 2.22.3, GNU Iceweasel 3.0.1, Pidgin 2.4.3 and OpenOffice.org 2.4.1. Viola officially supports Compiz-Fusion, VirtualBox-OSE and GNU Flash Player.
- 5 Reasons to Choose Debian Linux Over Ubuntu Linux
For those rare people who don’t know, Canonical’s Ubuntu distribution is basically Debian Sid (the unstable version) plus a few GUI apps and modifications. Debian is one of the most successful community-based distributions.
- Linux Sea, an online book on Gentoo Linux
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Ogg/Firefox Victory
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Freedom and Rights
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- Behind every 'tech' giant there's some dark secret and they already seek to demonise/discredit critics/exposers
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- [Meme] EPO Suckers
- The EPO's president refers to himself as "the f**king president" (maybe he knows why)
- Central Staff Committee on EPO Bribing Its Critics, Using a "Sharp and Abrupt Reduction, Estimated at 80% to 90%, in the Number of Refusals and Summons for Oral Proceedings in Areas Related to Software Patents"
- silence would be a form of enhanced complicity, in effect endorsing both bribes and violation of the EPC
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- In Sweden, GNU/Linux Almost 20% of the Laptop/Desktop Market, Firefox Falls to 2%
- In the US, once a browser falls below 2%, many critical sites can legally ignore it (or its users' needs) altogether
- When Microsoft Pays a Lot of Money to Reddit, 'Linux' Foundation, and Countless Other Entities
- As does Google
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- IBM Likely Breaking Several Laws With Latest 'Secret' Mass Layoffs
- Never sign an NDA
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- Morale at Microsoft Sinking, More Layoffs Expected, Stock Buybacks Blasted
- controversial because they should really be illegal
- [Meme] Think. Positive. Saturate the Media.
- IBM: Layoffs? What layoffs?
- The Kubecost Acquisition Does Not Show IBM is Rich, It Shows It Wants to Distract From Mass Layoffs Happening This Week (Thousands Laid Off in the Dark)
- So-called "news deserts" have become a national and international phenomenon (not local/regional)
- IBM Has Been Lobbying for Software Patents, It's Not the Free Software Community's Ally
- The ancient company has been lobbying for these patents for decades already
- Over Half a Day Later the Media Still Doesn't Cover Thousands of Layoffs at IBM
- Not even a single news site bothered to investigate and report this? Not even one?
- Over at Tux Machines...
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Comments
David Gerard
2008-07-31 23:22:16
(WMF does allow a little bit of Java into the system software. That's because so far Sun have been making good on everything they promised with freeing Java, so we think it unlikely they'll embarrass us at this stage.)
Roy Schestowitz
2008-08-01 04:31:32
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2008-08-01 06:00:33
Roy Schestowitz
2008-08-01 06:13:14
David Gerard
2008-08-01 10:41:47
The main vector of attack for Apple would be to put up a metric buttload of H.264 or similar encumbered-format content themselves.