GNU/Linux

SUSE set to mark two decades in business

By Sam Varghese
Wednesday, 08 February 2012 10:34
SUSE Linux will this year mark 20 years since it was brought to life by three raw German graduates and a software engineer.
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Canonical pulls funding for Kubuntu

By Sam Varghese
Wednesday, 08 February 2012 08:43
Canonical, the company best known for its Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution, has decided to pull funding for Kubuntu, the version that has KDE as its desktop environment instead of GNOME.
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Mandriva lives to fight another fortnight

By Sam Varghese
Thursday, 02 February 2012 10:33
The French GNU/Linux distribution Mandriva has been reprieved again - but only for two weeks, according to a post at the company's blog.
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Decision on Mandriva shutdown delayed

By Sam Varghese
Thursday, 19 January 2012 11:03
The French GNU/Linux company Mandriva has earned a stay of execution with an "external entity" expressing an interest in acquiring the company, according to the company blog
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Windows 8 will lock out GNU/Linux on ARM devices

By Sam Varghese
Monday, 16 January 2012 11:56
Microsoft has made it clear that it will use the secure boot feature available with Windows 8 to lock out other operating systems from ARM devices which are running this version of its operating system.
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Perens: the FOSS fire still burns

By Sam Varghese
Saturday, 14 January 2012 23:03
Bruce Perens looks a bit disoriented as he comes into the hotel lobby, looking for me. "Anyone here called Sam?" he calls out. The tiredness is evident on his face after the long haul from the US to Australia.
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Journald: just a reinvention of the wheel?

By Sam Varghese
Thursday, 12 January 2012 10:08
Two months back, Red Hat developers Lennart Poettering and Kay Sievers proposed a fundamental change to the structure of Linux in the shape of the Journal daemon, meant to replace the venerable syslog.
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Mandriva may be forced to shut down

By Sam Varghese
Tuesday, 10 January 2012 10:10
The French GNU/Linux company, Mandriva, may be forced to shut its doors as soon as January 16, following the refusal of one of its main shareholders to accept a recapitalisation scheme.
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Embodying the spirit of the LCA volunteer

By Sam Varghese
Thursday, 15 December 2011 08:29
Thirteen years have gone by since the first Australian national Linux conference was held, but the event is still driven by the same category of people: volunteers.
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In praise of LXDE

By Sam Varghese
Monday, 05 December 2011 10:22
When it comes to using GNU/Linux, there are two well-known desktop environments - GNOME and KDE. Most users opt for one or the other and make do with their choice.
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