Posts Tagged ‘Power’

Build a Linux-Powered Sprinkler System for your Garden

Really, is there anything Linux can’t do? You be the judge.

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Build a Linux-Powered Sprinkler System for your Garden

Time to Stop Preaching to the Converted?

Is it really a good use of time and effort for open source projects to man booths at open source events? Lots of projects spend money and man hours sending representatives to events like SouthEast LinuxFest (SELF), and Texas Linux Fest , but is it really doing any good? This week I’ve been working on finding volunteers to help with the GNOME booth at SouthEast LinuxFest in June

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Time to Stop Preaching to the Converted?

Fedora Dropping Official PowerPC Support

Fedora 13 will bring a lot of interesting new features when it’s released in late May, but also interesting is what’s going to be missing. For example, official support for PowerPC. So what happens now, and what’s the right thing to do for users on niche platforms?

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Big Names in FOSS to Keynote LinuxCon; Mini-Summits Announced

The Linux Foundation announced the first round of keynote speakers and several mini-summits for its upcoming conference, LinuxCon . The event, scheduled for August 10-12, 2010 in Boston, MA, draws FOSS users and developers from around the country to learn, discuss, and collaborate on all things Linux. Speakers this year include: Ravi Simhambhatla , vice president and chief information officer at Virgin America, the San Francisco-based domestic airline.

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Trust, But Verify: Being Responsible with Social Media

“A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.” Mark Twain said this when news moved at the speed of the telegraph, imagine what he’d clock a lie at now. This weekend a rumor asserting that Apple would require all software to be signed in order to run on Mac OS X 10.7 made its way through Identi.ca and Twitter with astonishing speed .

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