GNU/Linux

"# To enter, please submit your video by uploading it to a video sharing website like YouTube, Vimeo, whatever your choice is. You may password protect the video if you would like, just be sure to give us access. # Please email the link to your video to droidvideo at boygeniusreport dot com — if you email us an actual video attachment, we will delete it and not count it. # This contest is open to anyone in the U.S. over the age of 18 years old. # By submitting a video to the BGR DROID giveaway contest, you assume all responsibility and liability for your entry and indemnify BGR. # This giveaway will run for one week, until Friday, November 27th, 2009. We will announce the winners sometime shortly after that." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

does it come with service? - Vezquex: God of FF

"Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that brings the latest in free and open source software to your desktop, laptop and server. Fedora is built by people across the globe who work together as a community: the Fedora Project. You can read more information about the Fedora Project on our Overview page." - ovigia from Bookmarklet

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release... - ovigia

Like :) - Alinn

"SLiM is a Desktop-independent graphical login manager for X11, derived from Login.app." - ovigia from Bookmarklet

some say that this is the chromeos login software... would be cool if google use E17 :) ohhh welll....just a dream! - ovigia

:O - Alinn

"Introducing the new InspironTM  Zino HD mini desktop computer. You’ll be amazed by how many powerful features are inside such a perfectly small 8" by 8" square." - ovigia from Bookmarklet

"The current version 6.2 has been completely updated from Debian/"Lenny", "Testing" and "Unstable", and uses Kernel 2.6.31.6, xorg 7.4 for supporting currentmost computer hardware." - ovigia from Bookmarklet

:D - Alinn

"“TuxOnIce is most easily described as the Linux equivalent of Windows’ hibernate functionality, but better. It saves the contents of memory to disk and powers down. When the computer is started up again, it reloads the contents and the user can continue from where they left off. No documents need to be reloaded or applications reopened and the process is much faster than a normal shutdown and start up.” – tuxonice.net" - ovigia from Bookmarklet

"This week we turned our attention to a rather timely battle being waged on the mobile front, between Apple’s still wildly-selling iPhone platform and Google’s (Google) slower to boil Android (Android) mobile operating system. Apparently the latter has been gaining some ground, resulting in our first unexpected upset victory in the Faceoff series. … Google Android is the winning platform by a more than 2:1 margin. Out of 5045 total votes, Android walked away with 3323 of them or 66%, while the iPhone platform only netted 1494 or 30%. The tie vote included 228 or 5% who just couldn’t choose between them. Many people cited the openness of the platform and third-party development process as well as Android’s versatility, being able to be put to use not just on phones but also netbooks, tablet devices, eReaders and more." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"Seesmic now offers the Twitter client you’ve been waiting for! A powerful feature-rich application that’s simple and easy to use. Share photos with your choice of image service, post videos to YouTube, share links connected with your Bit.ly account, fully configure your notifications and view your Direct Messages in a simple threaded view." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

I wish there was one for Nokia phones. - Kol Tregaskes

"I'm doing a lot of packaging/development jobs in different git repositories. Sometimes certain things needs to be done, but it's not time to commit anything yet. I am too lazy to use other TODO list managers and often I just fail to remember that should be done in this repository." - Maxamad from Bookmarklet

"ztodo keeps per-path todo lists. Entries are kept in associative array (key is path) and cached in ~/.ztodolist file. I've added ztodo call to chpwd() finction, so I get reminder whenever I chdir to a directory." - Maxamad

"But in this review, I'm going to check out a NAS that breaks that mold. The Sans Digital MobileNAS MN4L+B is a four-disk , RAID NAS that packs a real punch. Along with its gigabit Ethernet (with jumbo frame support), the MN4L+ comes with a 1.2 GHz Intel Pentium M and can be ordered with up to 2 GB of DDR2 RAM to maximize cache." - imabonehead from Bookmarklet

"Welcome to the Pre-Installed Linux Vendor Database! You can use this database to find a desktop or notebook with GNU/Linux pre-installed. This is especially handy if you are inexperienced at installing an operating system, or are simply too busy to do it yourself. Technical enthusiasts can even find a computer with no OS at all, allowing them to install whatever they want." - ovigia from Bookmarklet

"If you are interested in switching to a GNU/Linux system, we have created a page for the topic on Grokdoc. If you wonder if you'll be able to find an application to replace your current favorite, see also the Application Crossover Chart also on Grokdoc. Feel free to add to either page. It's under a Creative Commons license, attribution, noncommercial." - ovigia from Bookmarklet

"Summary: Where technical merits are considered rather than marketing and consumerism, GNU/Linux crushes the competition and continues to gain" - ovigia from Bookmarklet

"So Fedora 12 allows regular users to install packages as long as a) the user is logged in on the console, and b) they are signed and from a trusted repository. I think it's great that we can enable this functionality, and I'd even argue that it should be on by default on the Live spins (and installs from the Live spins), but in the general case this is a horrible idea." - imabonehead from Bookmarklet

"Developers of software get stuck into a mindset of "make my software work, no matter what", and, on a related note, tend to have tunnel vision about the use cases for their software. One of the things I love about Fedora is that we have a lot of sysadmins who happen to be coders, so we tend to find a good balance between "usability" (AKA letting the developers go nuts) and maintenance/security. This one slipped by us, but I hope the decision will be made to push an update with a more sane default." - imabonehead

"My main Internet services off-grid on solar power at < 5W: down from > 600W two years ago! Note: this site is being served by the SheevaPlug." - ovigia from Bookmarklet

"The SheevaPlug is a development platform, targeted for use as a plug computer, and designed to run network-based software services. You can install Debian on the SheevaPlug in two ways:" - ovigia from Bookmarklet

"Não estou muito a fim de escrever então vou partir logo para ação. Segue um how-to de como instalar o Debian 5.0 no AA1 através de um pendrive." - ovigia from Bookmarklet

"Consider reading this old summary to learn why Mono is still bad or this newer primer with instructions on how to remove Mono. Mononono is an advised solution to prevent Mono from cropping up in a system. If you are using Gentoo, just add the line dev-lang/mono to the file /etc/portage/package.mask and add "-mono" to your USE flags in /etc/make.conf. For Arch Linux, add mono and libgdiplus to the IgnorePkg section of /etc/pacman.conf. You will get the following message when installing the group gnome-extra: "Do you want to skip the above package(s) for this upgrade?" Just say yes and anything depending on Mono won't be installed. The following are vectors of Mono infection, according to Wikipedia, which attempt to replace legitimate applications and need to be removed:" - ovigia from Bookmarklet

"GNOME was born for "uncompromising freedom" for the code, as opposed to the queer initial Qt license. The funny contradiction is that this does not apply to the trademarks, but only to the code. The current GNOME Foundation Trademark Usage Guidelines is a long and complex legal babble, which includes the obnoxious: «Do not use GNOME logos unless you have explicit written permission to do so.» In contrast, the KDE Logo Trademark Licence is a short notice that merely states: «The KDE logo can be used freely as long as it is not used to refer to products other than KDE itself. There is no formal procedure to use it.» What better example could have been chosen to illustrate the differences between the American and the European mentalities?" - ovigia from Bookmarklet

"In a Canonical blog posting, Chris Kenyon, Canonical's VP of OEM Services, revealed that "Canonical is contributing engineering to Google under contract." Canonical insiders were not at liberty to say how many developers were working on Chrome, but they did say it was a major project." - ovigia from Bookmarklet

"Almost exactly one year ago, Glyn Moody wrote a nice article “Why Mono and Samba Are Patently Different“, explaining some of the differences between Mono and Samba. Of course, that didn’t stop most of the mindless repetition of the talking point, but it does serve to illustrate a common tactic of Mono apologists:" - ovigia from Bookmarklet

http://www.computerworlduk.com/communi... - ovigia

"There’s another nice bit of irony I ran across while visiting the Banshee page. They link to the FSF’s essay, “The Free Software Definition“. I find this ironic because Team Mono has nearly surpassed Microsoft as the most vocal and vicious source of criticism against the FSF and “Free Software”." - ovigia from Bookmarklet

"Predictions Behold my crystal ball: there will be an upsurge in talk of Banshee as a “GNOME project”, “part of GNOME” and so forth. Team Mono has expressed that GNOME should be built on Mono numerous times, and they will continue to push that effort from every angle. Banshee is just another vector – not only serving as displacing a non-Mono part of GNOME (rhythmbox), but also rolling Moonlight into GNOME." - ovigia

"Omega is a completely free and open source Linux based operating system. It is a installable Live CD that includes comprehensive multimedia functionality out of the box. It is a Live CD that can be optionally installed to your hard disk. Omega is 100% compatible with Fedora and a Fedora Remix only including packages from Fedora, RPM Fusion and Livna software repositories" - ovigia from Bookmarklet

"Omega is one such remix. Created by Rahul Sundaram, the remix is a desktop oriented installable Live CD which includes the latest official updates, as well as the RPM Fusion repositories pre-configured. Rahul himself has been involved in Fedora for around five years, taking on various roles including documentation writer, reviewer, package maintainer, as well as mentoring new contributors and generally helping out users in the Fedora community. He was also part of the first public Fedora Board which oversees the project." - ovigia from Bookmarklet

"easyLife allows new and even experienced users to install and configure software on Fedora, just by clicking. It's simple and clean." - ovigia from Bookmarklet

""It looks like the Ubuntu developers consider GIMP to be too powerful for a normal desktop user. They are removing it from the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04. Among the reasons cited are that the UI is too complex, it takes up room on the disc, and 'desktop users just want to edit photos and they can do that in F-Spot.''"" - ovigia from Bookmarklet

If you need GIMP, just 'sudo apt-get install gimp'. So.. what's the problem? - Pavlo Zahozhenko

"That the American National Security Agency has previously helped Microsoft harden various Windows versions is old hat, but what is news is that the NSA now also assists Apple, Sun and Red Hat with increasing the security of their operating systems. This was made public in a hearing at the US Senate's Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security." - ovigia from Bookmarklet

http://www.nsa.gov/ia... - ovigia

"vrms (Virtual Richard M. Stallman) is a program that analyzes the set of currently-installed packages on a Debian-based system, and reports all of the packages from the non-free tree which are currently installed. Software gets placed in the non-free tree when it is agreed not to be too problematic for Debian to distribute but does not meet the Debian Free Software Guidelines and therefore cannot be included in their official distribution. For each program from 'non-free' installed, vrms displays an explanation of why it is non-free, if one is available." - ovigia from Bookmarklet

and by the way, one for m$-novell-mono(poly) http://tim.thechases.com/mononon... - ovigia