July 27, 2007
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It’s no secret that Mozilla Corp., the company behind Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird, and other open-source Internet programs, has made Firefox its No. 1 priority. Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker is now admitting that the popular email client Thunderbird has taken second … Continue reading
July 24, 2007
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During the Ubuntu Live Conference in Portland, Ore., Canonical announced the beta release of its Launchpad PPA (Personal Package Archive) service, a new way for developers to build and publish packages of their code, documentation, artwork, themes and other contributions … Continue reading
July 12, 2007
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Chances are if you print anything from your Mac, Linux desktop or server or Unix system you’re using CUPS (Common Unix Printing System). Now, in a surprising development, Michael R Sweet, CUPS’ creator, revealed on CUPS’ Web site that Apple … Continue reading
July 2, 2007
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One of the most chilling concepts of George Orwells novel “1984” is “Newspeak.” In Newspeak, the language is constantly being cropped of words that might lead to “thoughtcrimes.” If you control the language, the logic goes, you control what people … Continue reading
June 18, 2007
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Novell Inc. claims it will become the first vendor to offer a supported solution for Xen virtual machine guests, with its release next month of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack. This is a bundle of Xen-compatible paravirtualized … Continue reading
June 13, 2007
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. — If anyone out there still thinks that the main Linux kernel might change to the GNU GPLv3 (GNU General Public License Version 3) anytime soon, you can forget about it. At the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit … Continue reading