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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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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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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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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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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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Tuesday, 25 December 2007 |
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Five days ago, three members of the free and open source software community finally heaved a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from their brows after winning a battle they had waged for years.
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Tuesday, 25 December 2007 |
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Jacinta Richardson is one woman who admits to definitely being a geek. But that hasn't got in the way of her being the organiser of the only non-geek event of the 2008 Australian national Linux conference - Open Day.
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Sunday, 23 December 2007 |
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There are 35 days left before Australia's national Linux conference gets underway in Melbourne on January 28 but tickets have already sold out.
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Friday, 21 December 2007 |
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Last week, following a radio discussion, linux.com writer Bruce Byfield characterised two opposing FOSS camps in the OOXML debate who participated in that discussion as being "closer than they have appeared in the past."
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Thursday, 20 December 2007 |
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What is the relationship between the GNU Project and the GNOME desktop suite? GNOME itself claims to be a part of the GNU Project. But its relationship with the organisation is not the same as that of other software projects which are part of GNU.
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Tuesday, 18 December 2007 |
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Some people tend to take a fancy to something or the other after being exposed to the same at an early stage in life. In Tim 'Mithro' Ansell's case, it was exactly the reverse.
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Friday, 14 December 2007 |
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It does not take much to get the Apple user community up in arms - just a mention that there may be a defect in Mac OS X is sufficient to invite abuse, ridicule and plain silliness as though there is even one operating system in this world of ours which is perfect.
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Monday, 10 December 2007 |
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Three cheers for the developers and management of the K Desktop Environment. They have taken a principled stand on the divisive issue of OOXML, the Microsoft Office Open XML document format. And for this the KDE folk deserve a round of applause.
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