Posts Tagged ‘ubuntu-spreads’

Education for the Open Web Fellowship Deadline Approaching

The Mozilla Foundation and Shuttleworth Foundation have teamed up to offer a one-year fellowship to develop approaches to education people how to promote the open Web. Got all that? Time’s wasting, the deadline is on June 7th.

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Education for the Open Web Fellowship Deadline Approaching

Rocking Out With A Linux Guitar

While it may look at first glance like an electric guitar or one of the stringless guitars from Guitar Hero, Misa Digital is billing its new creation as a “digital guitar.” And get this: It’s Linux-based. According to Handle With Linux , the “Misa guitar runs Gentoo Linux on an AMD Geode processor and it has MIDI and Ethernet ports for connectivity.” Where there would be pickups on a normal electric guitar, Misa’s offers a touchpad LCD screen. By working the LCD screen with one hand and pressing down on virtual strings on the neck of the instrument, you can create synthesized sounds

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Who Says Desktop Linux Is Doomed?

In only a few weeks, 2010 will be half over, and it’s already clear that one widely believed in technology prediction for the year has come true: the success of Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system. For the Redmond software giant, Windows 7 has been a comeback story, following oceans of bad reviews and bad PR surrounding Windows Vista. However, people also predicted that Windows 7 would mean the end of the road for desktop Linux, as seen here

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Businesses Need Clear Policies For FOSS Contributions

When many people think of contributions to free, open source software projects, the immediate image that comes to mind is an individual contributor. However, while it’s true that individual contributers have a huge impact on FOSS, it’s worth remembering that many of the most meaningful contributions come from businesses. In many cases, FOSS benefits them.

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