Monthly Archives: May 2009

Cutting edge openSUSE Goodness: 11.2 Milestone 2 Released

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 5/28/2009
openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 2 has hit the streets. M2 includes Firefox 3.5 beta 4, KDE 4.3 beta 1, GNOME 2.26, and quite a few additional updates and is ready for download. This milestone release is a chance for contributors to keep current with openSUSE development and for users to test out the latest packages. As a Milestone [...]
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openSUSE Ambassadors Unleashed!

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 5/27/2009
Want to help spread the word about the openSUSE Project and encourage more people to become part of the openSUSE Community? Are you ready to roll up your sleeves and spread the word about the openSUSE Project? Do you want to teach new users about Linux, speak about openSUSE at local events, help distribute openSUSE [...]
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Linux Against Poverty

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 5/21/2009
Self-proclaimed "Evil Genius" whurley* is doing something not-so-evil: Trying to get together an effort to refurb aging computers with Linux and put them in the hands of people who need them. The event is set for August 1st. The rest is over on the Linuxagainstpoverty.org Web site. I think it'd be a Good Thing (TM) if [...]
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From clutter to clean

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 5/14/2009
I have to agree with this by Tim Bray, about reducing clutter and recovering space from all that stuff. Right now, my place is a bit on the cluttered side largely due to media: Books, CDs, and DVDs (with a generous helping of electronics and computers thrown in). Lately, I've been buying more music and reading [...]
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Creative drinking

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 5/12/2009
There's probably no point in my saying not to try this study at home. In certain people, alcohol may act more like an opiate than a depressant, which may explain why many creative types also tend to like their liquor. From Prospect Magazine, a story by Philip Hunter on the research into the "Churchill gene" [...]
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Day two of openSUSE Community Week

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 5/12/2009
Today was day two of openSUSE Community Week, and we had a lot of great sessions, good discussions, and an all-around good day. Well, except for the wiki downtime, which was a bit of a problem but should be sorted out for the rest of the week and we're in the process of sorting out permanently. Checking [...]
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Selling the war: Interview with David Barstow

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 5/11/2009
Interview with David Barstow about his Pulitzer Prize-winning expose on the Pentagon's propaganda campaign prior to the invasion of Iraq. From the interview: He recently won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for exposing how dozens of retired generals working as radio and television analysts had been co-opted by the Pentagon to make its case [...]
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