LifeHacker’s Ubuntu wishlist

LifeHacker’s Ubuntu wishlist

For those who may have not noticed, Lifehacker published a long article with a bunch of things they'd like to see in Ubuntu. While ironically the first wish is already in the works, the other suggestions are down to ...

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Ubuntu – Mono = Chicken

Jo Shields has been kind enough to provide an Ubuntu (9.04) remix without Mono apps. This is done by simply removing (without replacing in anyway) the offending packages.

Chicken Little Remix 9.04, AMD64 edition —————————————- Chicken Little Remix is a modified copy of the Ubuntu “alternate” installer, with all packages relating to Mono removed from the image entirely. No ...

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Crying wolves

I am not sure if I should write about this or not. Reading the Ubuntu Planet today I noticed a post about sexism written by Melissa Drapper. Interestingly, she points as a subtle sign of sexism a post by Emgent, where he made her grandma try to crack a wireless network with the last version ...

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Interesting claims

It's interesting how much misleading Lefty's last blog post is. After receiving (he claims) interesting mails from Boycott Novell's folks he suddenly realized that the community is under attack.

I've come to realize that our community and the people in it, are under attack. We are being disrupted, we are being defamed, we are ...

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Solang hits Fedora

Solang hits Fedora

Thank you Hicham ! Install Solang on the last Fedora with the following command.

su -c ‘yum –enablerepo=updates-testing install solang’
Enjoy !

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Launchpad opensourcing delayed

The release date of Launchpad has been changed from 21st July to July/August.

On https://dev.launchpad.net/OpenSourcing, I recently changed the date for when the Launchpad.net code is being open-sourced: it now says just "July / August 2009", instead of "21 July 2009".
To be honest I had ...

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Android Live CD

Android Live CD

Want to try Android without downloading the SDK or buying a G-1 ? Look no further, download the Live CD ISO (roughly 90mb), fire up your VirtualBox and tell me what you think about it !

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5 dollars to support Linux gaming

5 dollars to support Linux gaming

For this week end only, you can purchase the complete trilogy by Penumbra for just 5 dollars.

  • Overture
  • Black Plague
  • Requiem
All the games have been ported to Linux (so no Wine or anything) and feature a - reportedly - advanced physic engine. You can read a ...

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Microsoft trolls another small fish

A manufacturer of Linux-based networking devices has agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) in order to settle a patent claim, Microsoft disclosed Wednesday. Under the agreement, Melco Group will pay the sum to Microsoft in exchange for indemnity coverage for its Buffalo brand Network Attached Storage devices and routers. The patent indemnification ...

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The truth about the Mono logo

The truth about the Mono logo

Linux Outlaws forums bring some great surprises sometime. We actually discovered the truth about the Mono logo. It's Jono ! Compare with this.

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