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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)
Defending Openness in the European Union (Jul 4, 2008, 04:00 UTC) (166 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..."
KDE Developer Quits (Jul 4, 2008, 00:00 UTC) (1514 reads)
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(feedback) Practical Technology: "Being grumpy is almost part of the job description for developers..."
Microsoft Rebuilds Open Source Sandcastle (Jul 3, 2008, 21:00 UTC) (1050 reads)
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(feedback) Netstat -vat: "Sam Ramji who runs Microsoft's Open Source Lab has now confirmed on his blog that Sandcastle is now set to re-appear on CodePlex as a fully compliant open source project..."
Michael Robertson, Where's the Cash? (Jul 3, 2008, 18:00 UTC) (1118 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) (669 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) (856 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) (1391 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..."
Private St. Louis School Goes Linux (Jul 3, 2008, 12:00 UTC) (985 reads)
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(feedback) DesktopLinux: "A private school in St. Louis, Mo. is increasingly choosing Linux for the computers it supplies to students and faculty, according to laptop supplier Lenovo..."
How To Install Ubuntu Linux In 12 Easy Steps (Jul 3, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (1350 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) (1509 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) (1689 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) (1361 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..."
Dtrace vs SystemTap, Redux (Jul 3, 2008, 01:30 UTC) (1265 reads)
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(feedback) tecosystems: "Three years ago come August, O'Reilly's Nat Torkington, interviewing Sun's Jonathan Schwartz, pressed the CEO on the issues of patents generally and DTrace patents specifically..."
Linux's Dirty Little Secret (Jul 2, 2008, 22:30 UTC) (4428 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) (2553 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..."
Open Source Community Pushes Canberra on School Computer Fund (Jul 2, 2008, 18:00 UTC) (979 reads)
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(feedback) TechWorld: "Australia's open source community leaders have written an open letter to Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard calling for consideration of free and open source software in the implementation of the Digital Education Revolution for the National Secondary School Computer Fund..."
Demands on Open Source Software Grow (Jul 2, 2008, 15:00 UTC) (1100 reads)
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(feedback) .SAP Info: "Whether for private users, small and midsize businesses, major corporations, or public institutions, Open Source software has in the past years become a reliable alternative to commercial solutions..."
JBoss App Server 5.0 Emerges From Hiding (Jul 2, 2008, 13:30 UTC) (1068 reads)
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(feedback) The Register: "Red Hat is inching closer to delivery of the long-awaited JBoss Application Server 5.0, but there's still no final release date..."
Lawyers to Judge: Hans Reiser May Be 'Mentally Incompetent' (Jul 2, 2008, 12:45 UTC) (2381 reads)
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(feedback) Threat Level: "Lawyers for Hans Reiser claim the Linux developer convicted of murdering his wife may be 'mentally incompetent,' an argument that, if successful, could send Reiser to a mental institution instead of prison..."
Networking with Ubuntu 8.04 and Windows Part 2 (Jul 2, 2008, 10:30 UTC) (1994 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) (1720 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) (1057 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) (772 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..."
Yes, We Need Users Too! (Jul 2, 2008, 01:30 UTC) (1652 reads)
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(feedback) OStatic: "I'm a bit taken aback by this post by Jason Harris over on the KDE Developer’s Journals site. Harris says that 'KDE, like many other open-source projects, doesn't really need users at all, whether they are poisonous or not...'"
