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Could Oracle fracture open source community?

September 7, 2010 - 5:35pm
ZDNet: "An Oracle was a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinion. How can that particular definition be applied to Oracle the company?"


Systemd Test Day on Tuesday 2010/09/07

September 7, 2010 - 5:05pm
Fedora: "Today's installment of Fedora Test Day will focus on systemd, the new initialization system being introduced in Fedora 14."


Migrating a Small Business To Linux

September 7, 2010 - 4:35pm
Datamation: "In a tight economy, it's more important than ever to make sure every dollar spent is providing maximum return. And for a growing number of small businesses, this means reexamining plans for upgrading existing servers and workstations."


27 good reasons to love Linux (part 1)

September 7, 2010 - 4:05pm
Hubpages: "Maybe you'll think: "Oh, I, Windows, I have not paid, they gave me with the computer." Are you absolutely certain? If your computer had Windows, then you paid, even if the dealer did not told you, or you installed a copy of "pirate"."


ISPConfig3 - DNS Templates

September 7, 2010 - 3:35pm
Howtoforge: "This article explains how you can use the DNS Templates in ISPConfig3 to allow layman to enter domain data without any previous knowledge on the subject."


Considerations For FLOSS Hackers About Oracle vs. Google

September 7, 2010 - 3:05pm
Bradley M. Kuhn: "I'm sorry that I was right about this, but we should now finally learn the lesson: languages like Java and C# are dangerous."


Five critical apps for Android that you want to find on iOS

September 7, 2010 - 2:35pm
BerkeleyLUG: "It seems like nearly every 6 months, Apple redefines just how closed their closed platform can be. Instead of just completely restricting the source and distribution of their own software, they now also limit the kind of third-party applications and content their users can enjoy."


September 2010 issue of The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine Released

September 7, 2010 - 2:05pm
PCLinuxOS Magazine: OpenOffice Impress, LXDE, Quick GIMP Tip, Meemaw, Linux Market Share...


KDE SC 4.5 � Desktop Activities Exposed

September 7, 2010 - 1:05pm
everyday linux how2s: "Recently, I wrote a post about the KDE 4.5 SC release candidate. In that post, I was a little bit critical about the discoverability of desktop activities."


Nightingale - Much Anticipated Songbird Fork Which is Soon Going to Have its Fir

September 7, 2010 - 9:05am
Tech Drive-in: "Songbird is still open source, but developers behind Songbird have decided to discontinue support for Linux and the concentrate on Mac and Windows versions of Songbird."


Review: Kubuntu 10.04 Trinity "Lucid Lynx" (Idea by Candid of Linux Today)

September 7, 2010 - 5:05am
Das U-Blog by Prashanth: "This is how I felt when testing Kubuntu 10.04 Trinity. It's a weird mishmash of old-school and new-school KDE."


Reviewed: Linux Mint 9 KDE

September 7, 2010 - 1:04am
Tuxradar: "Ubuntu is dominating the mindshare for desktop distros, but there's still a place for rivals � even those built on the Ubuntu foundation � to take things in different directions."


Some useful utilities

September 6, 2010 - 9:04pm
Ubuntu Musings: "Utilities. They're what help make computing a lot easier and more convenient, no matter what operating system you use."


Chrome August's big winner as Internet Explorer resumes slide

September 6, 2010 - 5:04pm
ars Technica: "As browser competition continues to heat up, 2010 looks like the year when the market was repeatedly disrupted."


Adopting Enterprise Open Source Software

September 6, 2010 - 1:04pm
OStatic: "I did the upgrade, and made the meeting in time to get a cup of coffee on the way. This is how upgrades should work for everything."


Using a Bamboo Tablet with Ubuntu 10.04

September 6, 2010 - 5:04am
Linux.com: "If any of these are true you might be looking at one of the many drawing tablets that can be connected, via USB, to your laptop or PC. These tablets make for a far superior graphic experience, giving the artist much more control over the cursor than with a standard mouse."


Clonezilla Live

September 6, 2010 - 1:06am
Linux Journal: "Clonezilla is a bootable CDROM designed for partition backup and restoration. Unlike SystemRescueCD, Clonezilla Live doesn't contain an array of utilities, rather it is a single, focused tool. However, if you're interested in simply backing up or restoring whole partitions to or from files, or copying one partition onto another, Clonezilla might be just what you're looking for."


Are You Intimidated By Breakfast Cereal?

September 5, 2010 - 9:06pm
O'Reilly Broadcast: "The trouble with Linux: there's too much choice. To Mr. Morrison and all the others who have written articles like this one I say: Hogwash!"


Announcing WriteType 1.0.98

September 5, 2010 - 5:06pm
A High School Student's Views on Software Freedom: "The next version of WriteType (1.0.98) is now available for download! WriteType is a word processor designed to make typing easier and more efficient for young students and students with disabilities."


How to install PC-BSD on an encrypted ZFS file system

September 5, 2010 - 1:06pm
LinuxBSDos: "As a desktop distribution built atop FreeBSD, PC-BSD makes available to the desktop user all the cool technologies inside FreeBSD. One of those cool technologies is ZFS, the Zettabyte File System"