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CodePlex accepted by Linux, open source community: Microsoft
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-09-12 22:00:41
Microsoft’s own SourceForge-like repository of open source projects, CodePlex, celebrated its third anniversary recently. According to Sara Ford, CodePlex program manager, the site is accepted and welcomed among the fans of open source and Linux software.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-09-12 22:00:41
Microsoft’s own SourceForge-like repository of open source projects, CodePlex, celebrated its third anniversary recently. According to Sara Ford, CodePlex program manager, the site is accepted and welcomed among the fans of open source and Linux software.
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More LUV for Donna Benjamin
Written By: Hamish Taylor
Section: Apexing the Linux learning curve
Category: Linux for Learners
2009-09-07 06:05:56
At the Linux Users Victoria (LUV) Annual General Meeting, held on Tuesday 1 September 2009 at Trinity College, Melbourne, Donna Benjamin was elected to the position of President for the second year running. With a membership of 1793, LUV is a significant organisation in the Australian Free and Open Source software community.
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Written By: Hamish Taylor
Section: Apexing the Linux learning curve
Category: Linux for Learners
2009-09-07 06:05:56
At the Linux Users Victoria (LUV) Annual General Meeting, held on Tuesday 1 September 2009 at Trinity College, Melbourne, Donna Benjamin was elected to the position of President for the second year running. With a membership of 1793, LUV is a significant organisation in the Australian Free and Open Source software community.
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Ubuntu tweaking for everyone
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-09-07 04:02:48
One great tool power users in the Windows world have long enjoyed is Microsoft’s unsupported TweakUI. A range of similar Tweak utilities have followed for successive versions of Windows. Ubuntu Linux users have their own little-known tool called Ubuntu Tweak to help achieve the same degree of modification.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-09-07 04:02:48
One great tool power users in the Windows world have long enjoyed is Microsoft’s unsupported TweakUI. A range of similar Tweak utilities have followed for successive versions of Windows. Ubuntu Linux users have their own little-known tool called Ubuntu Tweak to help achieve the same degree of modification.
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Which licence is best: EPL, GPL or BSD?
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-02 21:43:54
Debates about the pros and cons of various licences available to free and open source software developers often end up generating more heat than light.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-02 21:43:54
Debates about the pros and cons of various licences available to free and open source software developers often end up generating more heat than light.
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ATO emulates ignorance when it comes to the Mac
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-01 07:18:08
The Australian Taxation Office appears to be somewhat confused over what role emulation software (better known as virtualisation software) plays on the Apple Macintosh when it comes to running the ATO's own e-tax application.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-01 07:18:08
The Australian Taxation Office appears to be somewhat confused over what role emulation software (better known as virtualisation software) plays on the Apple Macintosh when it comes to running the ATO's own e-tax application.
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Australian high schools lead the world in Windows 7 rollout
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Information technology news
Category: Education and Training
2009-08-25 22:52:27
Today the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Education (DET) has commenced its rollout of 220,000 netbooks to senior secondary school students and teachers. The netbooks have been preloaded with the release Windows 7 code which is not yet available to the general public.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: Information technology news
Category: Education and Training
2009-08-25 22:52:27
Today the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Education (DET) has commenced its rollout of 220,000 netbooks to senior secondary school students and teachers. The netbooks have been preloaded with the release Windows 7 code which is not yet available to the general public.
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SCO case: UNIX ownership to be decided by jury
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-08-25 19:32:13
An appeals court in the long-running case between SCO and Novell has ruled that a decision on who owns the copyrights to UNIX must be decided by a jury and not a judge.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-08-25 19:32:13
An appeals court in the long-running case between SCO and Novell has ruled that a decision on who owns the copyrights to UNIX must be decided by a jury and not a judge.
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Mini-notebook sales jump 398%, desktops shunned: Report
Written By: Ian Grayson
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2009-08-25 19:26:08
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Written By: Ian Grayson
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2009-08-25 19:26:08
Australian sales of mini-notebooks jumped a massive 398.4% in the second quarter of this year, compared with 12 months ago. It's clear evidence that consumers prefer mobile PCs, even when they come with a higher price tag than a desktop equivalent.
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Much ado about nothing: C# use in open source
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-08-24 21:12:39
If one were to go by the amount of noise made by pro-Mono people regarding the superiority of the Microsoft clone which they love, one would conclude that C# is the programming language du jour. The reality appears to be somewhat different.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-08-24 21:12:39
If one were to go by the amount of noise made by pro-Mono people regarding the superiority of the Microsoft clone which they love, one would conclude that C# is the programming language du jour. The reality appears to be somewhat different.
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Linux saves the day ... again
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-08-24 02:53:18
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-08-24 02:53:18
What do you do when Windows will not boot and cannot repair itself from the installation CD? You fire up a Linux Live CD!
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Gone but not forgotten part one - VAX/VMS
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-08-20 08:24:29
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-08-20 08:24:29
Like anyone who has been in IT for a reasonable length of time I've worked with technologies that have lapsed, been superseded, died off or just simply gone out of vogue. Yet there are some my heart yearns to see again.
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Kernel contributions: Canonical, where are you?
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-08-19 19:26:20
Over the past four years, the word Linux has become almost synonymous with Ubuntu; the company behind Ubuntu, Canonical, has proportionately gained an enormous amount of mindshare within the FOSS community.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-08-19 19:26:20
Over the past four years, the word Linux has become almost synonymous with Ubuntu; the company behind Ubuntu, Canonical, has proportionately gained an enormous amount of mindshare within the FOSS community.
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Microsoft talks up Silverlight, Expressions updates
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2009-08-19 03:01:51
Microsoft's spruiking the advantages of the latest versions of its Silverlight and Expression web tools.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2009-08-19 03:01:51
Microsoft's spruiking the advantages of the latest versions of its Silverlight and Expression web tools.
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Which netbook OS is right for you?
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-08-18 19:54:46
Windows 7 is here, and unlike Windows Vista, it will probably run on your diminutive netbook PC. However, there is an alternative. Here is why you ought to give Linux a shot.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-08-18 19:54:46
Windows 7 is here, and unlike Windows Vista, it will probably run on your diminutive netbook PC. However, there is an alternative. Here is why you ought to give Linux a shot.
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If Moonlight is so hot, why isn't Novell using it?
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-08-18 19:28:19
When a company announces a technology release, the least one would expect is that the company itself has found said technology worthy of use.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-08-18 19:28:19
When a company announces a technology release, the least one would expect is that the company itself has found said technology worthy of use.
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Linux, Windows netbook returns similar, says Dell
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2009-08-14 01:00:17
The return rate for Linux-based netbooks is about the same as that of similar hardware running Windows, according to a Dell executive.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2009-08-14 01:00:17
The return rate for Linux-based netbooks is about the same as that of similar hardware running Windows, according to a Dell executive.
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Ubuntu removes multisearch feature after protests
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-08-12 18:53:04
The Ubuntu development team has been forced to remove a feature called multisearch from Firefox for the upcoming release, Karmic Koala, following a number of objections by users.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-08-12 18:53:04
The Ubuntu development team has been forced to remove a feature called multisearch from Firefox for the upcoming release, Karmic Koala, following a number of objections by users.
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Linux geeks, New Zealand beckons
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-08-10 21:19:45
A husband-wife team is in the driver's seat for the 11th Australian national Linux conference which kicks off in Wellington, New Zealand, on January 18 next year.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-08-10 21:19:45
A husband-wife team is in the driver's seat for the 11th Australian national Linux conference which kicks off in Wellington, New Zealand, on January 18 next year.
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Keep an eye on your own open source cloud environment
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-10 00:46:31
Want to live in the cloud but don’t quite trust it? SourceForge's open source project of the month for August may be for you! eyeos is a self-hosted cloud operating environment for business, schools and home built in PHP.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-10 00:46:31
Want to live in the cloud but don’t quite trust it? SourceForge's open source project of the month for August may be for you! eyeos is a self-hosted cloud operating environment for business, schools and home built in PHP.
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Push to make KDE default desktop for OpenSUSE
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-05 21:51:36
Members of the OpenSUSE community are rallying behind a suggestion to make KDE the default desktop environment for the distribution.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-05 21:51:36
Members of the OpenSUSE community are rallying behind a suggestion to make KDE the default desktop environment for the distribution.
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