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Submission + - Munich's KDE Desktops Usability Certified

Submitted by falonaj on Tuesday May 22, 2007 @05:09AM

falonaj writes: Munich's KDE distribution LiMux has been certified to meet the international usability standard ISO 9241. The use of KDE 3 as an 'effective, efficient and satisfactory' working environment is named as a decisive factor for passing the certification. This is the first time that a Free Software desktop has been officially attested for usability by the German certification association TÜV. After an extensive two-year process of iterative testing, TÜV IT confirms that 'Open Source has reached a very high level of professionalism' and concludes that KDE's Open Source nature made it very easy for Munich to ensure that the software is especially efficient and user friendly for their office workers.

Submission + - Starcraft 2 for Linux

Submitted by

fbmx24

on Monday May 21, 2007 @07:39PM

fbmx24 writes: "As some of you have probably heard, Blizzard games has announced that its next game is going to be Starcraft II. We have started a petition to port it to Linux here. http://www.petitiononline.com/ibpfl/petition.html"

Submission + - GoogleDocs, OpenOffice or Microsoft Office?

Submitted by

E. Stride

on Monday May 21, 2007 @10:44AM

E. Stride writes: "An office suite expert explains the differences between GoogleDocs, OpenOffice and Microsoft Office, and goes deeper into the OpenXML vs. OpenDocument debate."

Submission + - A cynic rips open source

Submitted by

AlexGr

on Sunday May 20, 2007 @11:41PM

AlexGr writes: "Howard Anderson chaired an interesting meeting the other day. It was him against senior executives of Cisco, Agilent Technologies and Novell. The subject was: Do enterprise users really want open source? http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2007/051007 anderson.html"

Submission + - newbie coder

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Friday May 18, 2007 @02:34PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "I have been in the IT field ever since the onset of 1 way cable modems, 10 years later I look at my resume filled with candy that any IT recruiter would love to market. I currently am employed at one of the world's largest E-Commerce firms. I have no real world experience when it comes to creating programs. The only thing I have relatively done is code up a generic script to run Cramer's Law in my Trig/Calc class. (And no I didn't steal it, via Ti-82 comm cable) I wrote it myself. My company is primarily Perl based when it comes to writing utilities. However, Perl is unique in that, there are many ways to do one thing. Which honestly is great to hear, but I have been told that this can form bad habits. (IE sloppy code) I need to learn Perl as a method to propel myself at work and in general linux administration. Should I learn another scripting language first? (Bash?, Tcl?) Sure this opens up a great world of debate. Please if any contact is send explain why to run a specific path. For other's that are learning, and have gotten proficient what worked for you? I have been staring at an O'Reilly's manual and still feel left in cold dark world of not knowing perl."

Submission + - The source code for day-to-day life

Submitted by on Friday May 18, 2007 @02:21PM

An anonymous reader writes: http://www.pseudocoded.com is a blog by web developer Ade Olonoh, who's capturing his thoughts and decisions from day-to-day life through source code. Pretty funny so far.

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