December 27, 2010
by sjvn01
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Sure, unlike me, you’re probably not reading this on a Linux desktop–Mint 10 for those who care about such things–but do you use Google, Facebook or Twitter? If so, you’re using Linux. That Android phone in your pocket? Linux. DVRs, … Continue reading
December 21, 2010
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When you think open source, chances are you think software. You may not know that there are open-source fonts as well. Today, Google and Ubuntu have released a new free, open font to the Web: the Ubuntu Font Family. Web … Continue reading
November 14, 2010
by sjvn01
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When I first saw that Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company, was dumping the X Window System, which is the networking windowing system that’s the foundation of almost all Unix and Linux graphical desktop, for Wayland, an OpenGL-based display management system, I … Continue reading
November 10, 2010
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Red Hat announced today, November 10th, that long anticipated release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6. The announcement itself was anti-climatic. Everyone in Linux circles knew that RHEL 6 was coming. What I did find interesting–as customer after customer … Continue reading
November 1, 2010
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I like Fedora, Red Hat’s community Linux distribution, a lot. But, let me warn you right now, that it’s not a Linux for beginners. That’s not to say that the newest version of Fedora, Fedora 14 Laughlin, is hard to … Continue reading
October 20, 2010
by sjvn01
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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