The open source alternative
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| But for the past year Dell has been selling systems pre-installed with Linux,
| the free, open source alternative.
|
| [...]
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| Open Office is a free alternative to Microsoft's Office programs, and it is
| the best value freeware we can find.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/7404387.stm
They only show Ubuntu as though GNU/Linux *is* Ubuntu (making Linux "the brown
operating system"). At least they try. The Foundation has videos from the
summit now:
Videos from the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit
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| The Linux Foundation has posted a series of videos from the Collaboration
| Summit held in Austin.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/282745/
Related:
Why Linux Users Should Be Furious At BBC
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| Recently the BBC had a bit of a wake up call regarding numbers and how many
| Linux users were really out there. Why does any of this matter? It has to do
| with something the BBC provides called the iPlayer. Seriously, relying on
| ActiveX is so "1990's" that it's painful, and as luck would have it, the
| Linux users who wish to use this BBC player made sure that the BBC knew that
| they were making the sought after content inaccessible to those people using
| Linux.
|
| No iPlayer for Linux Users, But There Will Be An Alternative. Based on what I
| have been able to gather thus far, it looks like we will see an Adobe Flash
| option coming out soon. Then again, who really cares? Seriously, if the BBC
| is this foolish to ignore how much Linux growth is taking place both in the
| UK as well as the surrounding countries, then maybe people ought to be
| looking elsewhere? Is it because this is indeed, the BBC? So there is the
| belief that this is the people's media? Up until now, I enjoyed much of what
| the BBC had to offer, but this entire thing is enough to have pushed me away.
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2731&Itemid=449
New BBC site struggles with Firefox
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| The redesigned BBC News website is struggling to work with the Firefox
| browser.
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/192624/new-bbc-site-struggles-with-firefox.html
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