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FSF and Stephen Fry celebrate the GNU Project 25th anniversary
... to "good science" and contrasts it with the "kind of tyranny" imposed by the proprietary software produced by companies like Microsoft and Apple that it replaces. He encourages people to use free GNU/Linux ...
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It's not the Gates, it's the bars
... GNU/Linux. Our aim is to deliver a complete range of useful free software, so that no computer user will be tempted to cede her freedom to get software. In 1984, when I started the free software movement, ...
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Ubuntu Live 2008 cancelled
If you were planning to attend Ubuntu Live 2008 in July, we have some bad news for you: the event has been canceled. Speakers were quietly notified earlier this week and the event"s Web site was updated ...
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Closing the Door to Microsoft Vista
Many companies are not going to install Microsoft Vista, and are holding out for the next version of windows instead. However, they should take this opportunity to make the switch to GNU/Linux, and use ...
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Programmers shun Vista, develop software for GNU/Linux
The article is a bit misleading and misses the point -- developers prefer programming free software for GNU/Linux operating systems because those operating systems respect their freedom. As a user, you ...
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Adobe releases Adobe Flash Player 10 beta for Linux
Adobe Systems is reaching out for Linux desktop users with its announcement today that the first beta of Adobe Flash Player 10, a.k.a. Astro, is now available for Linux, as well as Windows and Mac OS X. ...
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What A New OS Needs
Could there be a bigger threat than Linux to Microsoft's OS dominance? If an open-source version of Windows can be developed that is totally compatible with the abundance of Windows drivers—the idea ...
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Ask Linux.com: Prepping for updates, GRUB versus LILO, and forum tools
In this week"s peek inside the Linux.com discussion forums, we find some advice on safely updating your Linux distribution, and how the GRUB and LILO bootloaders differ, along with a primer on the built-in ...
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Ubuntu Open Week unites community and developers
What"s the next best thing for Linux users who can"t attend an open source community conference in person? Online workshops like last week"s Ubuntu Open Week, where upwards of 300 participants per session ...
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Creative Commons promotes standard license expression
... what CC"s Chief Technology Officer, Nathan Yergler, was doing when Linux.com caught up with him at the recent Open Web Conference in Vancouver. Go to Source ...
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Setup a Firefox Proxy using PuTTY
... you will need: PuTTY loaded on your local machine Remote host running OpenSSH (e.g. Linux box at home) Firefox (obviously) Configure PuTTY Start up PuTTY and setup an SSH connection ...
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Things you miss with GNU/Linux
Recently I’ve noticed an increases in the number of people I know who are migrating from Windows to GNU/Linux. Either my tireless advocacy is grinding them down, word is starting to spread. Perhaps they’ve ...
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Computer makers push device builders for Linux-compatible hardware
For years, device and peripheral builders could get away with ignoring the Linux desktop market. It was too small to matter, they would say. Things have changed. At the Linux Foundation meeting in Austin, ...
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Linux is NOT Windows
In the following article, I refer to the GNU/Linux OS and various Free & Open-Source Software (FOSS) projects under the catch-all name of "Linux". It scans better. != (Linux is Not Windows) If ...
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Torvalds gives props to Microsoft for sharing
Linus Torvalds, leader of the Linux kernel project that's among the best-known open-source threats to Windows, has words of praise for Microsoft's announcement last week that it would share some previously ...
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Google funds Photoshop-on-Linux work
Google is funding work to ensure the Windows version of Adobe Systems' Photoshop and other Creative Suite software can run on Linux computers. For the project, Google is funding programmers at CodeWeavers, ...
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XBox Contollers in Linux
... is an adaptation of a similar HOWTO for Gentoo Linux, with some general suggestions from various posts on the Ubuntu Forums. Although the steps taken in this HOWTO works for me, I make no guarantee ...
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World of Warcraft in Wine
This is a howto guide for installing and playing World of Warcraft using Wine under a Linux kernel based operating system. Introduction This guide is largely based on text based commands to a command ...
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Setting up Sudo
... superuser login for administrative tasks, most notably in Ubuntu Linux and Apple's Mac OS X. Enabling sudo for Users To add a user as a sudo user (a "sudoer"), type "visudo" as root. This will ...
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How to Mount Filesystems
... before using it. Today, we create a directory in Linux, and mount our filesytem to it. This directory is called a Mount Point A mount point is a term used to describe where the computer puts the files ...
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