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The Six Kinds of Anti-FOSS Trolls

Gadgets & Tech – The Vandal - The most dangerous troll of all. Capable of literally destroying FOSS projects just by flaming them online. The vandal always takes the tactic of attacking the interface. It's almost always a graphics…

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Three reasons why GNU/Linux is better for Web servers than…

Gadgets & Tech – Updates and software installation can be a pain, and you're likely to find a cheaper, more flexible, better-working, and better-performing solution with GNU/Linux at a lower price.

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A Symphony For Viola: Parsix 1.5r0 Review

Gadgets & Tech – I can't praise Parsix 1.5r0 enough: It's stable while being cutting edge, stylish while being practical and is certainly in my top five favourite distributions, which is saying something given how low-profile it…

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Road warrior's weapon

Gadgets & Tech – Inflicting Microsoft's bloatware Vista Business on the Mini-Note seems cruel but, thankfully, HP intends to offer the option of Vista Home Basic, FreeDOS or SuSE Linux Enterprise desktop.

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Linux experiences 'prolific' growth, says Linux Foundation's…

Gadgets & Tech – Zemlin: The Linux platform is experiencing prolific growth in all aspects of computing, from embedded system to mobile applications and high-performance computing [HPC]. Linux is everywhere, from Google to Facebook,…

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Open source to 'blow mobiles open'

Gadgets & Tech – McCabe said that the impending release of Google Android would provide a "wonderful catalyst" for the breakdown of proprietary software and hardware bundles from telcos. Other open source handset software includes…

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Super Talent Bundles Ubuntu Linux

Gadgets & Tech – Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, announced today that, for a limited time its line of MasterDrive MX SSDs will include a free CD containing the…

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Microsoft tactics push India toward Linux

Gadgets & Tech – One of India's 28 states plans to distribute 100,000 Linux laptops to students there. It sounds like Tamil Nadu's volume purchasing agent decided to use Linux exclusively after being put off by Microsoft's bundling…

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Using Strings To Safely Get Program Usage Information On…

Gadgets & Tech – How to find out what options a command takes, and what it does, when you have no clue what it's used for and don't want to make a huge mess!

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Linuxy Declarations of Independence

Gadgets & Tech – It's almost the Fourth of July, and few things represent the freedoms we enjoy as Americans more than open source software. Now, if only the proprietary world would open up their drivers, quit violating the GPL…

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The Russian schools Linux pilot goes nationwide

Gadgets & Tech – The project, if successful, may be the first step towards large-scale migration of Russian secondary education instutitions and, consequently, of the other state agencies to Free Software as President Medvedev stated…

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Acer launches $500 Atom-powered Linux mini-note

Gadgets & Tech – Aspire One sports Intel's Atom processor, an 8.9in screen and a $99 cashback deal on its $599 (Linux) and $699 (Windows XP) sticker price

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Cognos Ships BI Software For IBM's System Z Mainframe

Gadgets & Tech – Cognos, which IBM acquired in January for $4.9 billion, is now shipping a version of its IBM Cognos 8 BI software for Linux running on IBM's System z10 mainframes.

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Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5r0 codename 'Viola' has been released

Gadgets & Tech – After a two-week delay, we proudly announce the immediate availability of Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5r0 codename 'Viola'. Parsix Viola brings several new features, contains a new kernel, updated software packages, updated…

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Myah OS 3.0 Dragon [Released]

Gadgets & Tech – For all current fans of Myah OS and all those soon to be, we give you Myah OS 3.0 Dragon. Dragon is the code name for Myah OS built around the KDE 3 desktop. We chose KDE 3.5.9 since it's still considered the most…

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MSI Wind Mini-desktop With Intel's Atom to Debut in July

Gadgets & Tech – Last month, Asustek revealed the Eee Box, a mini-desktop PC that has an Atom microprocessor, will come with either a Linux or Windows XP OS, and will begin selling in July for around US$300. The machine takes its…

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Hands on With ECS's G10IL Mini-laptop With 3G

Gadgets & Tech – ECS representatives said. Both the G-series and J-series come with options for a Linux OS from Linpus Technologies.

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LinkNotes: Ubuntu MID -- An Open Source iPhone Competitor

Gadgets & Tech – Canonical Ltd. just launched a full "developers release" of Ubuntu 8.04 for MIDs (mobile Internet devices), providing the full Internet and lots more: Web 2.0 experience, Web browsing, email, media, camera, VoIP,…

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Simple Cumulative Math Using Awk On Unix or Linux

Gadgets & Tech – Using Awk to do incremental, or cumulative, addition, subtraction, multiplication or division, etc.

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Twitter This & Twitter That | 150 Applications, Extensions…

Gadgets & Tech – A thorough, current list of 150 categorized Twitter desktop & mobile applications, browser extensions & resource links for Twitter users, addicts, social media users & marketers to utilize. Yes, there are a lot…

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Ubuntu Hardy gets Sweeter with Sugar!

Gadgets & Tech – Wow, what a nice surprise! (This has actually been in development since December of last year :o) The OLPC Sugar desktop environment is available in the Ubuntu Hardy repository! You can use the emulator to run it…

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Pardus 2008 : A testdrive

Gadgets & Tech – Pardus surprised me. Today it is listed as nr 49 on Distrowatch, but it deserves a place near or in the top-ten. It is a distro that has everything to become a major newcomer-friendly distro.

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Biggest Contender In Mobile Space: Ubuntu MID

Gadgets & Tech – Ubuntu MID is finger friendly, with no stylus needed. You drive Ubuntu MID with touch. Simply tap the screen or drag a finger to make gestures for intuitive navigation and control.

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Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" Alpha 1

Gadgets & Tech – One of the first things to notice about Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 1 is its new theme. Originally, Ubuntu 8.04 was supposed to introduce a (much-anticipated) new default theme for Ubuntu, but that was pushed back into Intrepid…

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Adios, Windows XP!

Gadgets & Tech – Ladies and gentleman, Windows XP is dead. Say goodbye to annoying pop up balloons, and say hello to Ubuntu! Sure, I am sad about the departure of Windows XP, but this just gives me more reason to transition…

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