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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)
Ultrathin Linux PC Envy (Jul 6, 2008, 04:00 UTC) (63 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) (753 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) (1707 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) (1593 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) (526 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) (4002 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) (1298 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) (1228 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) (1702 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) (7735 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) (2527 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) (2049 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) (1197 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) (1361 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) (1952 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) (1384 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) (1918 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) (1936 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) (2237 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) (1695 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) (1524 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) (5207 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) (3097 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) (1162 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) (1338 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) (1282 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) (2722 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..."
