CeBIT Open Source Forum 2012 Videos Now Available
Mar 23, 2012All presentations from the Open Source Forum at CeBIT 2012 are now available for free from the Linux Magazine video archive.
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Mar 20, 2012At the Linux New Media Awards 2012 prize giving ceremony for special achievements in the field of Linux and free software, Libre Office and Android each took two of a total of seven prizes.
more »Kernel News Hand-Picking PIDS; Massive Boot-Time Speedup; and Columns, Shmollums – the 80 characters per line dilemma.
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more »Charly’s Column: Linux Fair The sys admin’s daily grind: OpenRhineRuhr
Jan 03, 2012According to Goethe, the best way to gain an education is to travel. Sys admin Charly went to Oberhausen, Germany, for the OpenRhineRuhr fair last week.
more »Doghouse: Two Business Models
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Nov 02, 2011“What are you going to say about Steve Jobs?” everyone has been asking me – or at least, the rare subset of people who know about this column and are also sufficiently co-located to bump into me in restaurants and bars. “Important guy…he changed the world…must be lots to mention…”
more »Interview: Linus Torvalds
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