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... [in The Social Network]s official trailer, you can see what appears to be an old version of the KDE Desktop Environment. This particular still image is from a scene in the movie taking place in 2003, so KDE 3 would be an accurate version for the year. ... It is unlikely that all of these things would be combined exactly like they are on KDE 3 based distributions and the Desktop Environment not be KDE 3.

In the Autumn of 2004, I was searching the net and came across this new Linux distribution called Ubuntu Linux. It was based on Debian and was supposedly easy to use. It promoted these seemingly humanitarian concepts and touted itself as shipping with over 1000 pieces of software. Overtime, the colors of the site remained odd, and the default color scheme of the desktop did as well. The word Linux was made less and less a part of the website through the few years I followed it closely. By 2009, Linux was only one word in relatively small font size as part of the description of Ubuntu. One of the coolest things about Ubuntu was that you could the install discs for free via snail mail. This also stopped. Over the 6 years of life that Ubuntu has had so far, it has changed drastically. At first, it was just a quick and convenient way for me to install Debian. It started becoming more and more popular, and then was like a tidal wave through the Linux community. Today, it is the worlds third most popular operating system. Windows, OSX, Ubuntu, then everything else. There is, however, an untold story.

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Ubuntu 10.10 Installer is going through massive changes. Canonical is leaving no stones unturned and now even the installer slideshow is getting fair amount of attention. Installer slideshow was introduced during the Ubuntu Lucid release and Canonical aims to bring more polish and simplicity to the slideshow feature.

Informed sources have confirmed to a U.K.-based Web site that Microsoft will launch Windows Phone 7 on October 11 with a big event in New York City.

Man pages have been the primary source for UN*x documentation for a long time. Whenever I create a script thats going to be around for a while, I create documentation in the form of a section 1 man page. This stops my cell phone from ringing on the weekends when the junior sysadmins are looking for my notes.

The space agency wants U.S. companies to help it broker deals to share patented technology with the marketplace with IP-transfer partners earning a certain percentage of revenue.

With Barnes & Noble's Nook, Sony's Reader and Amazon's Kindle on its shelves, the nation's largest consumer electronics retailer is expected to be an important battle ground for e-reader supremacy.

Google's delivery of search results as users type will change the kinds of search keywords that work for online ads.

For those using our Phoronix Test Suite for performance benchmarking, regression monitoring, or running other automated tests atop our open-source platform/framework, the 2.8.1 update to Torsken is out this morning. Theres just a couple of small bug-fixes since the 2.8 release less than two weeks ago.

Consumers looking to save when purchasing the new iPod touch won't get the best deal from Apple.

Though many predict LTE will eventually dominate the U.S. wireless market, ABI Research has issued a bullish prediction for worldwide adoption of the high-speed mobile networking technology.

Get on your tuxedo’s - MyGaming pays respect to our oft-forgotten PC gaming brother, the Linux user. MyGaming thought it was high time to do another Linux compatible gaming round-up. A lot of these games support multiple platforms, and not just Linux, because Linux programmers are cool like that.

CSC has successfully moved more than half of the city's employees to the cloud for email and collaboration with only the LAPD and other public safety workers still using Novell's GroupWise suite.

MirrorBrain is an open source framework to run a content delivery network using mirror servers. It solves a challenge that many popular open source projects face - a flood of download requests, often magnitudes more than a single site could practically handle.

Google on Thursday refreshed the Google Voice application for the Android platform. As part of the refresh, Google added two new widgets that make interacting with Google Voice easier.

In a surprising about-face, Apple has removed many restrictions in its developer agreement and published guidelines about the kinds of apps it will accept and reject.

Acquired technologies are paired to speed big-data capture and transformation.