Besides excellent sessions and networking opportunities, there's usually behind-the-scenes action going on at our many events: meetings and get-togethers for any one, and sometimes several, of our working groups and teams.
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One of the big challenges facing Linux development is the straightforward issue of actually having developers to write the code. As more academic and vocational training centers add curriculum that includes programming for Linux and free software projects, this has become less of a problem...
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We regular computer users depend so much on digital documents that it would be crazy not to make our best to make sure that we will never lose them, no matter what happens.
Anyone using Linux (or any operating system for that matter) should know about the OpenOffice.org office suite. This suite of tools serve as the open source equivalent to Microsoft Office and does so with ease and full functionality. OpenOffice.org Writer works very similarly to Microsoft Word.
Ubuntu’s commercial sponsor Canonical revealed late yesterday that it has been working with Google on its Chrome OS platform since before Mountain View announced its game-changing plans in July this year...
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Verizon Wireless and Motorola sold 250,000 units of the Motorola Droid smartphone in its first week, compared to the 1.6 million units iPhone 3GS Apple and AT&T sold in its first week, according to mobile analytics firm Flurry.
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Penguin Computing announced this week that it’s added GPU goodness to its Penguin On Demand host computing service (announced back in August)...
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