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Education, information access top Mellon Foundation award winners
Author: Nathan Willis
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation earlier this month announced the first winners in its planned annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration (MATC),...
Microsoft desperately wants my love — and yours
Author: Robin 'Roblimo' Miller
I spent December seventh, eighth, and ninth in Seattle as Microsoft's guest. Microsoft flew me there from Florida at its expense,...
Influence scheduling priority with nice and renice
Author: Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, and Trent R. Hein
The "niceness" of a process is a numeric hint to the kernel about how the process...
Mark Shuttleworth issues divisive invitation to openSUSE developers
Author: Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
Tensions are already high over Novell's patent agreement with Microsoft, but Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth's invitation to openSUSE developers "concerned about...
Beryl debuts a dazzling community-built 3-D desktop
Author: Joe Barr
As we reported in September, a group of developers forked SUSE's Compiz compositing window manager to create a community-based project called Beryl....
Behind the Debian and Mozilla dispute over use of Firefox
Author: Lisa Hoover
Debian plans to release its newest version, Etch, in December, and wants Mozilla's Firefox Web browser to be part of the distribution....
How to recover lost files after you accidentally wipe your hard drive
By Shawn HermansAfter the overwhelming feeling of dread passed, I started to look into file recovery options. I demoed a variety of commercial products...
The state of Firefox
Author: Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
At the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Ore., last week, I had the opportunity to sit down for a few...
CLI Magic: EncFS
Author: Joe Barr
EncFS is an easy-to-use, command-line tool for storing information in encrypted form. It's not really a filesystem, but it pretends to...
The Amazing Shrinking PC
Author: Rob Reilly
Behold the OQO model 01+ tablet edition palmtop. It's a self-contained mobile PC system in a 4.9x3.4x0.9-inch metallic case, tipping the scales...