Open SUNY

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I am a pretty enthusiastic Linux fan, but I’ve been having problems with video editing. Video editing is important to me because of (youngphilosophers.org).
Video editing has gotten much better on Linux within the last few months. First, kdenlive seems to be relatively stable on my machine with my recent upgrade to Jaunty Jackelope.
Second, this story [...]

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Jaunty Jackelope (Ubuntu 9.04) comes with an optional skin for netbooks called Ubuntu Netbook Remix. Here’s a nice review.

I’m not sure this is news. There has been a lot of information floating around the internet about how many governments and government agencies have switched to Linux to save money.
But this article does give you a nice bit of background about how the switch came about. It began with one person switching to Open [...]

I wanted to call everyone’s attention to System 76 - a company dedicated to open source software. They sell machines pre-loaded with open source software. Here’s a little blurb from their site.
System76 provides and supports Ubuntu pre-installed laptops, desktops, and servers with a commitment to the ideals of open source software. Our aim is to [...]

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Story over at the Open Source Initiative.

Story from the Washington Times. It pins some of Microsoft’s recent financial trouble on Linux.

Story over at CNN here.
Some diggers are claiming that this is what they call The Linux Effect. That seems a bit unwarranted to me. The economy alone is likely sufficient to explain this drop.
However, what does seem warranted is the idea that there are a lot of people out there who would have bought a [...]