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Written by Sam Varghese
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Friday, 11 January 2008 |
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A GNU/Linux system does not normally load modules that are not released under an approved licence. So why should Australia’s national Linux conference take on board a sponsor who engages in practices that are at odds with the community?
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Written by Sam Varghese
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Tuesday, 08 January 2008 |
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Do utilities which provide a graphical user interfaces really help us? Or are they merely another layer between people and their own competence? At times, I really wonder.
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Written by Sam Varghese
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Thursday, 03 January 2008 |
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The new year is less than a week old but the talk has already begun. Yes, we are hearing that hackneyed old saw again - this will be the year of the Linux desktop. Some so-called pundits say it directly, some in an indirect manner but they aren't holding back.
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Written by Sam Varghese
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Tuesday, 01 January 2008 |
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How many years does it take to create an operating system that works? How many people does it take to do the work - in other words, how many manhours does this task consume? Would Microsoft like to cast some light on this?
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Written by Sam Varghese
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Thursday, 27 December 2007 |
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There are a total of 21,652 packages installed on my home workstation, an AMD64 single core processor box which has been in use since March 2006. It runs the testing stream of Debian. That's a lot of code, all of it free as in beer.
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