items tagged with GNU/Linux
Mono sinks its claws into Fedora
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-11-19 18:07:49
The latest release of Red Hat's community GNU/Linux distribution, Fedora, installs Mono and Windows.Forms by default from DVD, an Unix developer has found.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-11-19 18:07:49
The latest release of Red Hat's community GNU/Linux distribution, Fedora, installs Mono and Windows.Forms by default from DVD, an Unix developer has found.
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Why Ubuntu release schedules should be changed
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-11-17 18:51:34
Since the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution kicked off five years ago, it has been churning out release after release every six months.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-11-17 18:51:34
Since the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution kicked off five years ago, it has been churning out release after release every six months.
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RMS to change routine after sexism fuss
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-11-16 05:02:05
The head of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman, says he will change the routine he goes through when speaking at conferences in order to avoid people misunderstanding what he means to convey.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-11-16 05:02:05
The head of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman, says he will change the routine he goes through when speaking at conferences in order to avoid people misunderstanding what he means to convey.
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Ubuntu devs fix some showstopper bugs
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-11-11 15:35:16
The Ubuntu development team has identified a couple of problems which could have been behind complaints from a small subset of users who found the upgrade from older releases to Karmic Koala (version 9.10) a difficult process.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-11-11 15:35:16
The Ubuntu development team has identified a couple of problems which could have been behind complaints from a small subset of users who found the upgrade from older releases to Karmic Koala (version 9.10) a difficult process.
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Novell sacks more staff, cuts benefits
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-11-06 04:20:20
Mixed-source technology company Novell has sacked between three and four percent of its staff in layoffs that could well be linked to another bad quarter.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-11-06 04:20:20
Mixed-source technology company Novell has sacked between three and four percent of its staff in layoffs that could well be linked to another bad quarter.
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Open source FUD is alive and kicking
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-11-02 20:48:06
Ten, or even five years ago, it was not uncommon to see articles surface periodically, spouting gross untruths about free and open source software.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-11-02 20:48:06
Ten, or even five years ago, it was not uncommon to see articles surface periodically, spouting gross untruths about free and open source software.
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Ubuntu 9.10: confidence riding high at Canonical
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-26 21:29:00
There is a growing confidence evident in the Canonical camp as the countdown begins to October 29, the date for the official release of Ubuntu 9.10.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-26 21:29:00
There is a growing confidence evident in the Canonical camp as the countdown begins to October 29, the date for the official release of Ubuntu 9.10.
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Eeebuntu eeevolves with Debian Linux
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-10-25 18:55:13
The team behind Eeebuntu, an ASUS Eee netbook-optimised version of Ubuntu Linux, has announced that compatibility issues with Ubuntu 9.10 – Karmic Koala – has led them to abandon Ubuntu and build their work upon Debian Linux from now on.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-10-25 18:55:13
The team behind Eeebuntu, an ASUS Eee netbook-optimised version of Ubuntu Linux, has announced that compatibility issues with Ubuntu 9.10 – Karmic Koala – has led them to abandon Ubuntu and build their work upon Debian Linux from now on.
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Sequoia Voting System database laid bare but no secrets found
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-10-21 08:36:08
Liberal US shock-blog Daily Kos gained legal access to the database used by electronic voting machines produced by Sequoia Voting Systems. The Daily Kos sensationally claimed the database violated Federal voting law. A closer examination gives a different story.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-10-21 08:36:08
Liberal US shock-blog Daily Kos gained legal access to the database used by electronic voting machines produced by Sequoia Voting Systems. The Daily Kos sensationally claimed the database violated Federal voting law. A closer examination gives a different story.
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Why more people don't use GNU/Linux: it's the apps, stupid
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-17 02:14:42
If one were to pose the question why don't more people use GNU/Linux, one would probably get as many answers as people who are asked the question.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-17 02:14:42
If one were to pose the question why don't more people use GNU/Linux, one would probably get as many answers as people who are asked the question.
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Ubuntu sucks says Eeebuntu developer
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-10-15 23:16:28
The popular Ubuntu Linux distribution has received criticism from an unexpected corner and its ASUS Eee netbook users are likely to be left with an unworkable system when Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala hits the Internet later this month.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-10-15 23:16:28
The popular Ubuntu Linux distribution has received criticism from an unexpected corner and its ASUS Eee netbook users are likely to be left with an unworkable system when Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala hits the Internet later this month.
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Convert any computer to a virtual machine with Linux and Clonezilla
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-10-13 06:15:30
Last week Microsoft released Disk2VHD, a utility produced by its Sysinternals acquisition to convert a physical Windows hard disk into a Virtual PC disk image. While handy, Microsoft is treading ground Linux already covered in the form of open source program Clonezilla, which handles a far richer variety of disk formats and platforms.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-10-13 06:15:30
Last week Microsoft released Disk2VHD, a utility produced by its Sysinternals acquisition to convert a physical Windows hard disk into a Virtual PC disk image. While handy, Microsoft is treading ground Linux already covered in the form of open source program Clonezilla, which handles a far richer variety of disk formats and platforms.
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Debian powers robotic sub to victory
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-12 19:06:51
A team of students at Cornell University has won a competition for autonomous underwater vehicles, using a robotic submarine running Debian GNU/Linux.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-12 19:06:51
A team of students at Cornell University has won a competition for autonomous underwater vehicles, using a robotic submarine running Debian GNU/Linux.
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Next Debian release with FreeBSD kernel as well
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-08 19:35:22
The Debian Project will, for the first time, release a stable version of its distribution running on a FreeBSD kernel when the next version, Squeeze, is released sometime next year.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-08 19:35:22
The Debian Project will, for the first time, release a stable version of its distribution running on a FreeBSD kernel when the next version, Squeeze, is released sometime next year.
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London Stock Exchange gets the facts and dumps Windows for Linux
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-10-08 08:16:06
Microsoft’s marketing arm excitedly churned out a case study in 2005 when the London Stock Exchange (LSE) rolled out a C# stock exchange ticker system on Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2000. Four years later the LSE has scrapped the whole system in favour of a Linux-based solution instead.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-10-08 08:16:06
Microsoft’s marketing arm excitedly churned out a case study in 2005 when the London Stock Exchange (LSE) rolled out a C# stock exchange ticker system on Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2000. Four years later the LSE has scrapped the whole system in favour of a Linux-based solution instead.
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Red Hat boot camp for FOSS teachers
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-07 20:12:54
The world's biggest free and open source software company will hold a boot camp in Singapore next month for those who teach courses in open source software at institutes of higher learning.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-07 20:12:54
The world's biggest free and open source software company will hold a boot camp in Singapore next month for those who teach courses in open source software at institutes of higher learning.
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Why Matt Zimmerman should quit Canonical
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-01 20:11:46
The chief technology officer of Canonical, Matt Zimmerman, has put himself in an untenable position after he took a public stance that a remark made by his boss in a keynote was sexist.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-01 20:11:46
The chief technology officer of Canonical, Matt Zimmerman, has put himself in an untenable position after he took a public stance that a remark made by his boss in a keynote was sexist.
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Ubuntu gets set to mark fifth birthday
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-27 20:38:41
The new kid on the GNU/Linux block is getting long in the tooth. In about three weeks, Ubuntu will be five years old.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-27 20:38:41
The new kid on the GNU/Linux block is getting long in the tooth. In about three weeks, Ubuntu will be five years old.
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RMS comes under attack again
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-23 22:47:21
It appears to be open season for launching attacks on the head of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Matthew Stallman, the man who is in large measure responsible for the status that free and open source software enjoys today.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-23 22:47:21
It appears to be open season for launching attacks on the head of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Matthew Stallman, the man who is in large measure responsible for the status that free and open source software enjoys today.
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Novell wants Linux to be a mainstream O-S
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-23 17:43:14
The Linux Foundation's 600-strong LinuxCon conference in Portland, Oregon, is just getting over and some of the talk emanating from that direction has been interesting, to put it mildly.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-23 17:43:14
The Linux Foundation's 600-strong LinuxCon conference in Portland, Oregon, is just getting over and some of the talk emanating from that direction has been interesting, to put it mildly.
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