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So this guy is trying to categorize all free software people into 7 categories. Do you think this is credible? Which one are you? Personally I don't find these categories very applicable to myself. I do side with the Open Source Programmer, because I do some of that myself, and code being free...

It's an online linux "course", based on gentoo. So for those curious about gentoo this might also be a nice thing. http://gentoonewbie.org/

Apple Sends 3rd Grader Cease And Desist Letter The company replied to the young girl after she sent them some ideas to make the iPod Nano better. (CBS 13) Like any nine-year-old, Shea O'Gorman spends a lot of time listening to her iPod Nano. So much so, that when her third grade class...

For some of you Ubuntu was the first distro. Others have been around longer than that. In the rich distro landscape, everyone tends to find something that pleases them personally. Meanwhile I keep singling out Ubuntu like it's the best thing ever. Why is that? This is why...

Anyone here running a 64bit system? Have you run into any nasty platform bugs? I'm new to the 64bit world and I have to say the amd64 ubuntu is working much smoother than I was afraid of. No x86_64 related problems yet, 32bit binaries and libs are handled almost entirely transparently.

Write your own OS :cool: http://www.joelgompert.com/OS/TableOfContents.htm

The article: http://www.cio.com/article/print/135700 Scaaaaaaaandalous that Windows isn't on the list. If it isn't a wonder that such a piece of crap runs 90% of all desktops I don't know what is. :D Incidentally, what they call "World's largest scientific grid computing project" is the...

http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/ Mono monkey Miguel de Icaza has more to say on the matter: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Jul-27.html Who knows what they are trying to achieve here. But it definitely would be nice (if completely science fiction-fantastic) if they were to open...

Microsoft threatens its Most Valuable Professional Who said you could improve our software? What's the best way to attract a pile of threatening lawyers' letters from Microsoft? Sell pirate copies of Windows? Write a DRM-busting program? Londoner Jamie Cansdale has just discovered a new...

With Ranieri's appointment made official, it's time for me to ask a question that was going to come up sooner or later. When I started cheering on Juve in 95, we were doing well. It was Lippi's second season, we had the scudetto and we won the CL. Of course, since then most of our history is...

For those who know Richard Stallman, Eben Moglen is the top lawyer for the Free Software Foundation (that Stallman started) and has had a lot to do with the GLPv3 draft in the recent year or so. Here's a comment about Microsoft I found quite amusing...

You are .DLL You are dynamic. You are constantly in danger of bringing down the house, because you don't play well with others. http://www.bbspot.com/News/2004/10/extension_quiz.php

http://www.windowsvistamagazine.com/US/05582469247438396008/have-four-desktops-at-once-and-wow-your-friends-with-the-coolest-mod-around.html No mention of linux of course, this is ground breaking stuff :D

Microsoft admits Vista failure Actions speak louder than PR By Charlie Demerjian in Beijing: Saturday 21 April 2007, 12:20 WITH TWO OVERLAPPING events, Microsoft admitted what we have been saying all along, Vista, aka Windows Me Two (MeII), is a joke that no one wants. It did two...

vlatko and I were having a discussion on this a while ago. Now you can check for yourself :P http://mainstream.freevicente.com/ EDIT: You enter your last.fm username (if you have one :P)

http://xkcd.com

you have to see it to believe it :biggrin:

lisah writes "The flame wars between Linus Torvalds and the GNOME community continue to burn. Responding to Torvalds' recent claim that GNOME 'seems to be developed by interface Nazis' and that its developers believe their 'users are idiots,' a member of the Linux Foundation's Desktop Architects...

Matusiak ready for A-ction Monday 12 February, 2007 Polish striker Radoslaw Matusiak is desperate to make his Serie A debut after his January move to Palermo. The 25-year-old penned a four-and-a-half year deal with the Rosanero, but wasn’t available for Sunday’s defeat to Empoli due to...

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