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Joke of the month
07/03/2009 
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Freedom is Not Embarrassing
07/03/2009
I'm not embarrassed to have ideals, I am proud. Ideals elevate us above situational ethics. Ideals guide us into trying to be better people, and give ...
Netbooks: Five Reasons Why Windows Beats Linux
07/03/2009
During some recent trips to retail stores across North America, The VAR Guy spotted five clear examples why Windows will continue to dominate Linux on ...
Winning war won't secure peace for open source
07/03/2009
According to Mahatma Gandhi:"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."* So by that reckoning, it must be pret ...
X Visual History Part 3
07/03/2009
In Part 1 of the series we looked at the early X window managers that ran on X display protocol based systems. The scale and range of them was from th ...
$250 Desktop Runs Ubuntu, Windows 7 and OS X?
07/03/2009
Do you really need a top-of-the-line computer, or can you get by with something as cheap as this $90 CPU/motherboard combo? ...
Debian rejects open-source .NET threat claim
07/03/2009
Debian, the foundation of Ubuntu, has rejected claims that it's potentially holding Linux's future hostage to Microsoft by including an open-source im ...
Neverland is Your Virtual Linux Playground
07/03/2009
Try the second star to the right and join me in my wish for a virtual lab. ...
Tech Tip: Color man Pages
07/03/2009
To add a bit of color to your man pages install the most pager. Add the MANPAGER setting to your shell ~/.profile to make the setting available when y ...
Course: Using LDAP
07/03/2009
This course will help you understand the benefits of LDAP as well as implementation of LDAP. The OpenLDAP Project is a collaborative effort to develop ...
Counting The Days To Akademy 2009
07/03/2009
It is that time of the year again. Akademy 2009 is about to begin in only a few days. Held in the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium close to the beautiful beac ...
Open-Source ATI R600/700 3D Driver Almost Working
07/03/2009
AMD's John Bridgman has shared that the open-source R600/700 3D driver for Linux is becoming usable, slowly but surely. Months after releasing documen ...
Xubuntu and low performance machines : The perfect match !
07/03/2009
When the machine gets old and becomes useless. You get short on options. You can't sell it because you are so emotionally attached to it and it doesn' ...
An Open Source Recipe for the iPhone
07/03/2009
The platform that has definedâcoolâ for years has not had a reputation for being an open platform, but that hasnât discouraged a number ...
Best Linux PIM: Kontact or Evolution?
07/03/2009
Some of us rely heavily on our personal information managers for keeping our appointment calendars, contacts, reminders, and notes. Gnome offers Evolu ...
New Kernel Vulnerabilities Affect Ubuntu 6.06, 8.04, 8.10 and 9.04 OSes
07/03/2009
Earlier today, Canonical has announced the availability of a major security update for the following Ubuntu distributions: 6.06 LTS, 8.04 LTS, 8.10 an ...
Fluendo Releases Its Own Linux DVD Player
07/03/2009
Fluendo, the company that's largely behind G-Streamer and produces legal audio/video codecs for Linux, has now launched its own DVD player solution fo ...
xclip Does Copy-and-Paste on the Linux Command Line
07/03/2009
In this tip, Juliet Kemp shows how to use xclip for copy-and-paste on the Linux command line-- without using the mouse. ...
An Interview With A Linux Game Porter
07/03/2009
Recently on our forums, Frank Earl (who goes by the synonym Svartalf), has been seeking the input of Linux gamers as to what games they would like to ...
Can FAT patch avoid Microsoft lawsuits?
07/03/2009
Andrew Tridgell has published a patch that could make the Linux implementation of the FAT filesystem impervious to Microsoft patent claims of the kind ...
The Difference Between Red Hat and Ubuntu in the Cloud
07/03/2009
While both Red Hat and Canonical/Ubuntu are offering cloud services, Canonical is not providing a certification program like Red Hat is for vendors. W ...
Systhread.net: 10 Years of Online Open Source Writing
07/03/2009
This is the 10th year I have been writing regularly in some fashion about hacking around with Open Source systems and software. So to get things start ...
Why haven't you heard of Linux.
07/03/2009
Apple and Microsoft have millions to finance their marketing campaigns. GNU/Linux on the other hand is a totally different story. ...
Say Goodbye to Reboots with Ksplice
07/03/2009
Linux is famous for uptime, but even it has to reboot when a new kernel vulnerability is fixed. Or does it? Now thereâs Ksplice, technology that ...
Have Android phones already failed at the starting post?
07/03/2009
Android smartphones are sending waves of excitement through the mobile community that they are a serious contender to knock iPhone off its smartphone ...
Bordeaux for Mac OS X 1.8 beta 1 released
07/03/2009
Bordeaux 1.8.0 beta 1 for Mac OSX systems has been released, this release adds support for Microsoft Office 2003 Applications (Word, Excel, Powerpnt) ...
London Stock Exchange to abandon failed Windows platform
07/03/2009
Anyone who was ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough to be used for a mission-critical operation had their face slapped ...
Ubuntu Sees No Reason To Remove Mono from Default Install
07/03/2009
The Mono discussion may be tiring, but the fact of the matter is that thanks to this discussion, various major Linux distributions are now making offi ...
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