August 19, 2009
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The Linux Foundation has just released a new report on who writes Linux (PDF Link) and, guess what? Linux isn’t written by lonely nerds hiding out in their parent’s basements. It’s written by people working for major companies-many of them … Continue reading
August 18, 2009
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The other day, Novell’s Mono Project, announced the beta release of Moonlight 2. IN theory, this enables Linux users to watch Microsoft Silverlight encoded content. Of course, that begs the question: “What Silverlight content?” Moonlight 2 beta sounds great. Novell … Continue reading
August 11, 2009
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Linux-based and open-source healthcare software has been around for years. Unless you were in health IT, however, chances are you never even heard of it. It’s time to pay attention, because it may soon be tracking your medical records. With … Continue reading
August 5, 2009
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Many Debian developers, one of the oldest of the Linux distributions, still have trouble dealing with Ubuntu, one of the most popular Linux distributions and also a Debian descendant. Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, recently tried … Continue reading
August 3, 2009
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I’ve never been a big fan of KDE 4.x. I really disliked the first versions, like KDE 4.04. But, over time, KDE became more useful and usable. By KDE 4.2, I finally saw a new version of KDE I could … Continue reading
August 2, 2009
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People have always been able to build their own Linux distributions. That’s one reason why there are over a hundred Linux distributions today. But, building them easily to do a particular job and with major vendor support…. well, that’s not … Continue reading