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My name is Roy Schestowitz and I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Medical Biophysics at Manchester University. I regularly blog at my site where you can read about my interests, hobbies, opinions and pet peeves.

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Community to Gilliard: 'Consider Open Source'

Gadgets & Tech – The Australian Open Source community has called for the consideration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in the implementation of the Rudd Government's Digital Education Revolution Policy.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 08, 2008 05:14pm

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Evolution, Linux, and Gentoo

Gadgets & Tech – I'll start at the end by telling you that I'll finish this with a discussion of my "Distro of Choice", Gentoo. But before we get there .....

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Pardus 2008 review

Gadgets & Tech – Pardus 2008 is everything I could of asked for it looks good, plays all my multimedia, it's super-fast/stable and it's so easy even a Mac OS X user could easily adapt to it.

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Debian Project News - July 7th, 2008

Gadgets & Tech – 16 August 2008 will mark the 15th birthday of the Debian project since its first announcement by founder Ian Murdock on comp.os.linux.development on 16 August 1993. A coordination page for local Debian User Groups organizing and announcing birthday events is already available at the Debian Wiki.

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FreeRunner Linux phone sells out, more on the way

Gadgets & Tech – Less that one week after going on sale via its own e-commerce site, the 900MHz version of OpenMoko's Neo FreeRunner Linux phone has sold out, but don't despair yet as more are on the way.

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The "Ubuntu Equals Linux" Paradox

Gadgets & Tech – Now, the reason that new users are using Linux is in part to the fact that Ubuntu users, or LoCo teams, are actively spreading Linux to new users. Notice that there are no other distributions that are spreading Linux like Ubuntu.

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Review: GoblinX 2.7 Micro Edition

Gadgets & Tech – GoblinX is a Slackware-based Linux distribution which comes in live CD format, and is developed and maintained in Brazil by Flavio de Oliveira, aka Grobsch.

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Linux in the Stores

Gadgets & Tech – Linux hardware is finally starting to make its debut in consumer stores. Here in Brazil, in the store Saraiva, I noticed two KDE 3-based laptops, both apparently built upon some version of Kubuntug

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Ubuntu Is the Best Linux Distribution for Laptops

Gadgets & Tech – There are many Linux distributions for last few years in the market like Ubuntu, SUSE, Xandros etc and thus it brings this question in mind that which version is more friendly-user and more suited to laptops

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Move Your online Business from Windows to Linux

News – Windows Vista debuted to muffled applause, followed by lackluster sales. Up until June 30, cash-strapped businesses looking to avoid the cost of upgrading to new Vista-compatible hardware could still purchase trusty Windows XP. Now, however, Windows XP is available only as a costly "downgrade" from Windows Vista--if you buy a copy of Vist

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Voted for on July 08, 2008 11:32am

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GNU/Linux free software tools to preserve your rights

Gadgets & Tech – The second piece of shocking information was a report in the New York Times of a leaked document that the USA and the the European Union were proposing to exchange information with each other on their citizens. Allowing this to happen would be like putting Count Dracula in charge of a blood bank.

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Will Alienware Ship Linux-Based PCs?

Gadgets & Tech – Alienware, the PC manufacturer known for their high-end gaming notebooks and desktops, has been evaluating the business opportunity in providing a Linux OS option for some of their products.

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The Man Behind Ubuntu: Talking with Mark Shuttleworth

Gadgets & Tech – Education content and education policy are sort of inseparable. If teachers are nervous or teaching something that isn't certified government ââ;¬" governments will certify things that set a particular ideological way of seeing the world more often than not.

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The Neo FreeRunner open source mobile phone

Gadgets & Tech – While Android, the open mobile platform developed by an alliance of some of the mobile phone and computing world's biggest names, has attracted a lot of interest and support since it was announced late last year, it wasn't actually the first open mobile computing platform.

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Voted for on July 08, 2008 03:34am

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A quick look at Linux events of the first half of 2008

Gadgets & Tech – Microsoft was forced to spend a large amount of money on promoting Windows and has reportedly cut the price of its specially built Windows XP to as little as US$26. Despite that, it might still end up on the losing side of the battle.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 07, 2008 05:19pm