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Submission + - Linux software wiki - Come add software! (ribosi.com)

this213 writes: "Linux software wiki open to the public, No account required to add and edit software.

There's very little software in it now. By my own efforts, this will continually grow. With some community involvement, this will change drastically. The only stipulation for software to be included is that it runs on Linux. This can be desktop applications, command line tools, cross-platform applications and even web scripts.

The main feature of this wiki is the ability for users to search a Windows application and see alternatives for Linux. So, someone searching a Windows alternative of "MS Word" might get a response of Abiword, OpenOffice.org and Kwrite."

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Submission + - Is the Open Source Community Hypersensitive? (infoworld.com)

steve_thatguy writes: A series of articles criticizing Ubuntu Gutsy are actually an informal study in the hostility the Open Source community has toward critics. Attempts at a technical criticism of the latest Ubuntu release, however accurate or inaccurate they might be, seem to succeed in creating a large number of passionate reactions that attack the author but comparatively few that attack the issue from a technical perspective. Those who still can't be bothered to read all the article(s) might want to skip to the end.

Feed Two More Active Moons Around Saturn (sciencedaily.com)

Saturn's moons Tethys and Dione are flinging great streams of particles into space, according to data from the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini mission to Saturn. The discovery suggests the possibility of some sort of geological activity, perhaps even volcanic, on these icy worlds. The particles were traced to the two moons because of the dramatic movement of electrically charged gas in the magnetic environs of Saturn.

Feed VMware Workstation 6 virtually trounces the competition (feedburner.com)

Newly released VMware Workstation 6 has lots of new features and improvements to ease collaboration between the host and guest operating systems. Add to that improved support for USB devices and rock solid performance and VMware Workstation 6 easily...

Feed Getting started with GRUB (feedburner.com)

When you power on your computer, the first software that runs is a bootloader that invokes the computer's operating system. GRUB, the GRand Unified Bootloader, is an integral part of many Linux systems. It starts the Linux kernel. Here's some...

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