I found this article over on Linux Today, it’s an excellent read, very well written Brian!
Editor’s Note: Hard Choices
By Brian Proffitt
Managing Editor: Linux Today
The divide between totally-free vs. free-when-we-can got needlessly wider this week when open source practitioner Eric Raymond issued a press release announcing his departure from Fedora to Ubuntu, citing–among other concerns–Fedora’s [...]
This article shows how to use a Sandisk MP3 player (Sansa E250) on a Linux desktop. Now I can have all the tunes I want without dropping into Windows to manipulate them.
I got my daughter one of these last Christmas, it works great and it’s no problem to use with linux.
Source: Howto Forge
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Feb 22, 2006
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Opinion — Last September, some of the Debian Linux distribution’s leadership wanted to make sure that Etch, the next version of Debian, arrived on its December 4th due date. So, the “Dunc-Tank” group decided to experiment with financially supporting some key developers to get Debian out the door on time.
Whoops.
Debian has [...]
The company’s hosted productivity tools will be offered as an outsourced subscription service, challenging Microsoft and others. Then there’s all the third-party firms that may come along for the ride
Early enterprise adopters of Google Apps Premium Edition will face a choice: get their IT departments to customize the product to meet their needs, or work [...]
SEATTLE (AP) - Microsoft Corp. must pay US$1.5 billion in damages to telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent SA for violating two patents related to digital music, a federal jury ruled Thursday.
The Redmond, Wash.-based software company said the patents in question govern the conversion of audio into the digital MP3 file format on personal computers.
Source: Yahoo [...]
For the uninitiated, creating Debian packages is a mysterious process that looks much harder than it really is. To make it a little less mysterious, let’s take a look at two methods of building Debian packages: using standard Debian packaging tools…
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Source: Make your own packages for Debian-based systems
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