Category Archives: openSUSE

Finding sources for FLOSS projects: Make it easy!

One of the more difficult things for reporters working in the tech industry, especially those who aren't really familiar with a beat, is finding contacts for free software projects. Increasingly, projects like GNOME or openSUSE are in mainstream news, but finding someone to "speak for" those projects can be a challenge. This is doubly true when [...]
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Blogging 101: Take a Tip from Newswriting with the Five W's

Who? When? Why? What? Where? How? If you don't answer those questions, why bother blogging at all? The "Five W's" as they're often called (and one H) are drilled into every journalism student as crucial for news-writing. Who is involved? When did it happen? Where did it happen? How and why did it happen? And, for [...]
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Bach on an 8-string guitar by Daniel Estrem

Another music share from Magnatune. This time, it's from Daniel Estrem and in the classical genre. Just released on Magnatune, JS Bach on 8 string guitar, volume 1 has more than 75 minutes of fantastic instrumental music. If you appreciate talented guitarists, classical music, and/or the works of J.S. Bach, you really ought to give this [...]
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Making Thunderbird Financially Sustainable: How it Could Work

Mozilla Messaging is looking forward to a big year in 2010 including Thunderbird 3.1 and figuring out how to make the project financially sustainable. Making Thunderbird better is the easier part. Figuring out how to make money as a project is another story entirely. No doubt the next release of Thunderbird, currently code-named Lanikai, will do [...]
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Taking Command of the Terminal with GNU Screen

GNU Screen is one of the most useful utilities you can have at your disposal if you spend any time at all working at the command line. Screen allows you to manage multiple shell sessions from one terminal window or console, view multiple shell sessions at the same time, and even log into the same [...]
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Google Buzz: Much Ado about Something

If at first you don’t succeed, try again. Google is having a yet another go at a social media platform, this time with Google Buzz. Buzz meshes input from third party social media sites like Flickr and Twitter, and pulls in Google Mail, Google Talk, Google Reader, and a number of other features in a [...]
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Oracle Cuts Affect GNOME Accessibility Work

Sun used to boast that it was one of the largest contributors to open source. That's being demonstrated now that Oracle has acquired the company. Oracle's acquisition of Sun, and subsequent layoffs, are having ripple effects on the open source community. The cuts are also hitting the GNOME accessibility (a11y) team and leading the project [...]
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