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Red Hat Profit Rises on Sales to Budget-Minded BuyersFree software Operating System for engineering studentsLinux Isn’t Just Good Ideology — It’s Better ComputingThere’s no way around it: the longer you run a Windows installation, the slower and less responsive it gets. On my year-old dual-boot laptop, I wait longer and longer for Windows to boot, and longer and longer for programs to do what I ask. Meanwhile, my Ubuntu Linux installation, on exactly the same hardware, installed almost as long ago, is as snappy as the day I set it up— faster, in fact, as I’ve tweaked it and geeked it.Humor: Clean up your computerOpen source software cheaper option for government bodiesLinux Professional Association on Kenya, a group of local software developers, has embarked on a sensitisation programme among government bodies with the aim of wooing them to use Free Open Source Software (FOSS).The innovations of Linux 2.6.28Report: The Amazon UK Mp3 Store On Linux… Actually a postive experience :OThe Win, Fail and Meh of Open Source in 200864-Bit64-Bit Computing Has Finally ArrivedLinux has been 64-bit for eight years, and Apple’s operating system for five. But compatibility problems have dogged the 64-bit versions of Windows since its introduction in Windows XP.Hotrod Your Asus Laptop With 64-bit KubuntuLinux MagazineTop 10 Articles of 2008Michelson Award for Writer Neil J. GuntherGraphics2008 Linux Graphics Survey ResultsLast week our annual Linux Graphics Survey ended. There were over 14,000 submissions this year to the eleven questions we asked pertaining to X.Org, Linux desktop usage, and graphics hardware. In this article are all of the results from this year’s survey.They say when you start something….I’ve implemented a sort of Mac OS X ’sheets’ animation in the simple-animations plugin. It is designed to work with dialog boxes so that they appear to ‘roll out’ of the top of the window. The animation is there, I just haven’t got parent window detection to work with dialogs yet and haven’t put window placement code in. Once that is done it should look (somewhat) realistic without violating the hidden patent I probably don’t know about.VideoVLC Media Player To Receive VDPAU SupportReturn of the Xvid: check your outputs!GiftsThe Top 11 Reasons To Give (Or Get) Linux For Christmas!Last-Minute Gifts for the Linuxy at HeartLinux – the OS that keeps on givingChristmas… Linux… Wallpapers…Desktop EnvironmentsSugar Labs gets sweet with the GNOME FoundationGNOME 2.25.3 released !Wow we are so late this time — probably some Debian blood is still flowing through my veins — but this is really worth it, 2.25.3 is here and there is goodness overflowing.KWin visual effects get way better in KDE 4.2DistributionsBest Linux releases of 2008AntiX 8.0 Test1Revised Slackware keeps it simplesidux 2008-04UbuntuTalking Switched from Windows to Ubuntu – wish I had done this beforeThis is my first post on these forums. It’s going to be a happy one. For happy is the state I ended up in tonight. Because, you see, I made “The Switch”. Bye Windows, hello Linux-world. Ubuntu. I am amazed. I am astonished. I feel like a total idiot for not having done this transfer before.Ubuntu Enrolls At Cornell CollegeNo doubt, Ubuntu will spill over from college IT departments out to student populations as more and more Netbooks (preloaded with Ubuntu) arrive on college campuses.Ubuntu Review: One Year InThoughts on Ubuntu 8.10.Linux Mint Raises the User-Friendliness BarDevicesPalm Gets $100 Million Cash InfusionPalm will reportedly introduce new smartphones and a new Linux-based operating system for mobile devices, code-named Nova, next year.N810-ish, Linux-based MID pops up overseas, brings hope to at least one reviewerAndroidMultiple Android Phones Expected In 2009Android G2 Has Rumor Mill BuzzingSamsung Might Release Android-Powered Phone in Q2 2009Garmin Confirms Android HandsetGarmin’s first cellphone, the nüvifone, has yet to see the light of the day. But the personal navigation devices maker is already working on its second handset–a Google Android mobile operating system-powered device.Garmin Readying Android Phone For 2009?
Open source: getting startedFLOSS Manuals sprints to build quality free documentation10 Firefox Extensions For Better Tab ManagementOnline Journalism Scandinavia: Mecom’s Danish arm will cut costs with open-source CMSPerl 5 completes move to GitTalking with Pactolus’ Ken OsowskiOpenVAS Charts Its Own Forked CourseServer-basedJumpBox: Open Source Meets SaaS AgainCash-strapped companies head for the cloudsGraphicsAn Easy Way to Introduce Inkscape Drawing Program to Youth and Adults10 more ways to spend less, give more!OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE: Tux Paint is a computer drawing program that is great for kids. You can give open-source software for adults, such as Linux operating system or Gimp, an image-manipulation program.
IBM reneges on Solaris GPFS promiseIn Praise of WhingeingGovernments Increasingly Turn to OpenDocument Format as ODF Alliance Marks Unprecedented 2008Some ISPs Push Back On RIAA Plan
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