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CrunchGear " Archive " 10+ alternative OSes that may provide next year's innovations#more-44753#more-44753#more-44753

By Devin Coldewey, September 26th, 2008 "One interesting thing about the software world, I find, is that there is a trickle-up system for innovation. Things like live searches, better task bars, and the much-debated widget/gadget/dashboard idea often have had their seeds in smaller OSes or pieces of software. Designers will find a way to work something in their program that others may be able to adapt to something bigger, and thus the snowball begins to grow. "Some of the OSes (perhaps more accurately called Desktop Environments, says a commenter) on this interesting list may be familiar to you, some not, but doubtless all are interesting and relatively unique in their strengths. I’m far from an expert in this field (in fact, it would be a stretch to call me a dabbler), but I think I have the appreciation for usability and good design that comes from a lifetime of using computers and technology of all kinds."

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OSNews is Exploring the Future of Computing

0 change sets, the final version of awesome 3.0 has been released. 'awesome' is a frame-work window manager, which also supports tiling window management. This major release brings a lot of new features. The whole configuration file is now write in the Lua language and use a simple API. This

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Quick and dirty hack to get syntax coloring in Keynote

I figured I’d toss this out in the event that someone has a better solution in hand. I tossed this together quickly and it works. It requires that you have Pygments installed and pygmentize on your path (which is silly, because I could have just imported pygments as a library…) It also requires that Safari is running. But, hey, it works.

import os
import sys

def go():
    if len(sys.argv) != 2:
        print "Usage: %s <filename>" % sys.argv[0]
        sys.exit(1)
    output_fn, ext = os.path.splitext(sys.argv[1])
    output_fn += '.html'
    print "Generating %s" % (output_fn)
    os.system("pygmentize -O full -o %s %s" % (output_fn, sys.argv[1]))
    print "Copying to clipboard..."
    fullpath = os.path.abspath(output_fn)
    os.system("""osascript<<END
tell application "Safari"
        activate
        make new document at end of documents
        set url of document 1 to "file://%s"
end tell

tell application "System Events"
        tell process "Safari"
                click menu item "Select All" of menu "Edit" of menu bar 1
                click menu item "Copy" of menu "Edit" of menu bar 1
                click menu item "Close Window" of menu "File" of menu bar 1
        end tell
end tell
END
""" % (fullpath))

if __name__ == "__main__":
    go()

TurboGears: TurboGears Blog

Can the iPhone Beat Symbian OS?

Symbian sales = 19.6 million units (up 5% YoY) in 159 different devices compared to a few from RIM and 1 from Apple. Mobile phone sales grew 12 percent in Q2 (Gartner). Apple selling 800,000 iPhone units weekly. Symbian may be losing grip on market.

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Stephen Fry — Happy birthday to GNU — The GNU Operating System

GNU operating system is 25 years old. Happy birthday GNU and the freedom software movement!

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Linux Hater's Blog: The fallacy of choice

Look at OSX. The amount of choice you have in OSX is minuscule compare to what you get with Linux. Yet, do you see the majority of mac users complaining? Look at the internet, look at how IE still has a huge market share. People like to think that it's be

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Computer History Museum Video: The Origins of Linux - Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds, the creator of the operating system phenomenon Linux, tells the story of how he went from writing code as a graduate student in Helsinki in the early 1990s to becoming an icon for open source software by the end of the decade.

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Ubuntu 'reaping Linux dividend'

"We have seen a real shift in the last six months from folks seeing open source as either a super-specialist thing for people who run data centres or as an enthusiast thing

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Dear Lazyweb: flipping screen image on Mac

It’s kind of a weird thing to want to do, but I’d like to be able to “flip” the screen image on one of my displays on my Mac, in real time. The Mac lets you rotate the image (in 90 degree increments), but there is no way to make it like an image seen in a mirror. Does anyone know of software that lets you do that?

TurboGears: TurboGears Blog

A Taste Of Mandriva Linux

Mandriva is truly an elite Linux distribution and this 2008 version further strengthened its excellent status. To those who haven't tried Mandriva, I encourage you to have a taste.

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A Taste Of Mandriva Linux

Mandriva is truly an elite Linux distribution and this 2008 version further strengthened its excellent status. To those who haven't tried Mandriva, I encourage you to have a taste.

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The little computer that could ... | Roar of the Jespersaur

After reading the post on planetkde about KDE4 running smoothly on an aged machine, I was tempted to try it myself. Although the EeePC is far from old, its CPU/memory and graphics card are relatively low end.

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