November 1, 2010
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Ubuntu’s new Unity Linux desktop interface is the change that everyone is talking about, but it was far from the only change that Canonical and Ubuntu‘s developers are making to Ubuntu’s desktop. In fact, even without the change from straight … Continue reading
October 26, 2010
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ORLANDO, FLA.–As Debian is to Ubuntu, so GNOME is to Unity. What do I mean by that? Well, once upon a time there was an operating system called Debian. It was, and is, a powerful version of Linux. Outside of … Continue reading
October 25, 2010
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ORLANDO, FLA. — Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and the company behind it, Canonical, surprised the hundreds of Ubuntu programmers at the Ubuntu Developers Summit when he announced that the next release of the popular Linux operating system, Ubuntu 11.04, … Continue reading
October 22, 2010
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If I were to ask most people what single kind of program they thought used up the most Internet bandwidth, most of them would say, “Web browsing.” Wrong. According to research by Sandvine, a broadband solution provider and analysis firm, … Continue reading
October 20, 2010
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Two years ago, the London Stock Exchange (LSE) with its TradElec Windows-based C# and .NET programs crashed and took out the Exchange for almost 7-hours. That’s an eternity in stock market terms. Months later, the LSE’s CEO was history, and … Continue reading
October 19, 2010
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Well, that didn’t take long. When The Document Foundation (TDF) created LibreOffice from OpenOffice’s code, they let the door open for Oracle, OpenOffice’s main stake-owner, to join them. Oracle’s reply was to tell anyone involved with LibreOffice to get the … Continue reading