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__aamdvq1432 writes:
According to the GNOME design crew, as reported by Allan over at As Far as I Know, GNOME 3 will represent A New Approach to GNOME Application Design. The design patterns being developed and employed may effect a new, prettier interface, but more importantly a new mindset about the entire project, a mindset intended to encourage greater deep beauty in the application layers below the user interface. Maybe...for now, I'm sticking to the sinking ship of KDE in the Ubuntu ocean.
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__aamdvq1432 writes:
Starting in July 2012, Java Standard Edition version 6 will be supported (bug and security fixes) only if you pay Oracle.
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__aamdvq1432 writes:
Peer-to-peer bit torrent client, Tribler, promises to sustain the file-sharing universe even if the current tracker-based model dies. According to Ernesto over at TorrentFreak, Tribler Makes BitTorrent Impossible to Shut Down as long as the Internet is up. The rub that gets a little glossed over in the article is the issue of unmoderated peer trust. The authors of Tribler at Delft University of Technology claim that crowdsourcing will keep the process safe. That is, users will rate sources and share those ratings with peers. If I was a Windoze user, I don't know that I'd want to be an early wader in any new stream based on that security model. Malware ahoy!
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__aamdvq1432 writes:
From a grassy knoll somewhere in Sweden, the view is that some Wikileaks releases reveal "lapdoggery" to U.S. by Swedish government on piracy issues.
According to the author, Rick Falkvinge, "Among the treasure troves of recently released WikiLeaks cables, we find one whose significance has bypassed Swedish media. In short: every law proposal, every ordinance, and every governmental report hostile to the net, youth, and civil liberties here in Sweden in recent years have been commissioned by the US government and industry interests."
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__aamdvq1432 writes:
LibreOffice (LO), the community-driven fork of OpenOffice appears to have a very healthy and growing group of code contributors. The Document Foundation (TDF) has published new stats that portray the climbing rates of developer involvement both in terms of numbers of people and numbers of code commits.
One of the most encouraging aspects, as noted by Ryan Paul in his article "LibreOffice stats: 400 total contributors, thousands of code commits every month over at Ars, is that non-corporate code contributions by independent volunteers constitute the largest slice of the latest commit-pie.
28820365
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__aamdvq1432 writes:
Archlinux derivative Parabola supports ONLY free software — that means drivers as well. An exploration of the new OS is presented at Parabola GNU/Linux: Freedom Packaged.
Having experience with Linux since the Slackware of the '90's (back when RedHat was a new, untried entry in the market) through contemporary Kubuntu, I gotta wonder what these guys are thinking? Do they really believe there are enough absolute free-dom fanatics in the Linux user community to justify this distro, i.e., people who will buy a box to suit perfectly the hardware constraints of an OS?
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__aamdvq1432 writes:
Researchers in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Berkeley claim that the economic and environmental impacts of "free parking" make it way NOT free. One more argument in favor of telecommuting.
