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Friday, 02 March 2007 |
From time to time, it is not uncommon to encounter a confession on the net, a bleating essay that says "I can't run Linux, though I'd love to", and advances a host of assorted "reasons" for this act of commission.
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Wednesday, 28 February 2007 |
The release of the third version of the GNU Project's General Public License will be delayed by a few months.
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Monday, 26 February 2007 |
The Ubuntu GNU/Linux project is not a charity. Rather, founder Mark Shuttleworth says his aim is to build a distribution "which is freely available, showcases the best of free software and is sustainable in its own right."
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by Sam Varghese
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Friday, 23 February 2007 |
A couple of days ago, Steve Ballmer was out and about spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt about possible IP violations in Linux.
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Thursday, 22 February 2007 |
If a person of Eric Raymond's reputation in the open source community chooses to switch from one GNU/Linux distribution to another - and publicises the fact widely - then there is bound to be speculation about the underlying reasons.
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by Sam Varghese
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Wednesday, 21 February 2007 |
A little less than seven years ago, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer told Microsoft's annual financial analysts meeting in Seattle that GNU/Linux had something in common with communism.
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by Sam Varghese
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Monday, 19 February 2007 |
A spat between Linux creator Linus Torvalds and the GNOME desktop developers has been reignited and, if anything, it shows the different mindset that exists between the pure geek and the crowd who want to see commercial success.
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Friday, 16 February 2007 |
One sure way to catch the eye in the IT marketplace these days is by announcing that you are "going open source" - whatever that means.
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Wednesday, 14 February 2007 |
Microsoft has begun using the HTML rendering engine in Word instead of that in Internet Explorer for displaying HTML in its Outlook email client.
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Monday, 12 February 2007 |
The declaration by Linus Torvalds and other kernel developers that the Linux kernel will stay under its existing licence - the second version of the General Public License - and the talk being floated by Sun Microsystems that it likes the upcoming third revision of the GPL have led to much speculation that an official version of GNU/Solaris would arrive by the end of the year under the GPLv3.
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Friday, 09 February 2007 |
It's common to see newbies on general tech forums ask for advice about distributions when they are planning to test out GNU/Linux for the first time.
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Wednesday, 07 February 2007 |
The merry month of March is just a few weeks away and foremost in the minds of those in the free and open source software community is the question of licences.
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Monday, 05 February 2007 |
The British news agency Reuters came up with a sensational bit of spin on Friday, US time, claiming that the Free Software Foundation could "ban" Novell from selling Linux.
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After flirting with tech from 1989 onwards, Sam Varghese began to
experiment with Linux in 1998. A couple of years later, he began using
the Debian distribution as a single-boot system for his personal use.
From that point onwards his interest grew and he has since written
widely about free and open source software, with a great deal of his
writings based on his own experiences, rather than anecdotal evidence.
Open Sauce will focus on a genre of software that is present everywhere
but rarely acknowledged; a genre that has little eye-candy but does most of
the heavy lifting; a genre that is designed and written by people whose
accomplishments are only occasionally recognised. Above all this blog will
follow the KISS principle - Keep It Simple, Stupid.
