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Putting Linux Muscle in Your Pocket: Resources for USB Thumb Drives

If you've followed my previous posts on PortableApps and MacLibre you know that these sites offer Windows and Mac users, respectively, the opportunity to get boatloads of useful, free portable open source applications in one download. They're especially good for stocking a USB thumb drive with applications that you can carry in your pocket and use anywhere. Linux users interested in the same opportunity to maximize the potential of a go-anywhere USB thumb drive have even better options: They can put a complete Linux operating system on a pocket drive, along with lots of great applications. Here's a good way to find everything you need to do this quickly.


Building an Open Source Community? Help Is on the Way

Bugs, system conflicts, and errant bits of code add unique challenges to the technical area of open source development. They also affect a project's community -- and as any community manager can tell you, developing a healthy community is often more difficult (and has higher stakes) than rogue code.

Management is tough all round, but managing open source projects is different still. Most developers are giving their time because the project interests them, and non-developers join because they find the project useful, and they want to share their enthusiasm. But a community not being any one remotely homogenous group means that passions sometimes run high, and it's not always easy to keep a project's community -- it's life -- moving forward.

It may have just gotten easier. Ubuntu's Community Manager, Jono Bacon, announced his upcoming book, The Art of Community will be available later this year.



OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

173 top free software titles.....

Should Microsoft open source Windows?.....

Google Blog Converters is a new open source project that can take blogs from most popular platforms and convert them to other popular ones. Find out more here.....

Ubuntu Launchpad project-hosting service to go open source.....

Portable Linux is now available.....

5 Linux-based virtualization companies to watch.....



A Newbie Switches to Ubuntu: What Worked and What Didn't?

I got a kick out of reading AshPringle's series about his New Year's resolution to switch from Windows and the Mac to Linux for a week. (You can find the daily entries at the bottom of this first entry.) Remember how, when you first took the SAT, people told you to go with your first answer--it's probably correct? This series is by no means written by a Linux expert, but several of the off-the-cuff impressions about using Ubuntu, add-ons and more are interesting precisely because they are off-the-cuff. Here were a few of the good takeaways that I spotted in the conclusion post of the series.


OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

What Meeks means by OpenOffice being sick.....

Ruby on Rails on track for major upgrades.....

SuperSpeed USB 3.0: More details emerge.....

Sun and open source events changed as recession bites.....

Nine Inch Nails and Final Cut Pro: The first open source band?.....

A better way to create a customized USB drive with Ubuntu Live.....



Canonical and Microsoft: Is Sustaining a Business Better than Turning a Profit Right Now?

The New York Times ran a piece this Sunday featuring Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth. Though a majority of the piece was biographical, and the rest wasn't exactly the picture of accuracy in its portrayal of Ubuntu (or Linux in general), there were a few interesting figures.

It gives pause to wonder how, in this economy, and in an ever-changing industry, profit still gets much better press than growth.



Ubuntu Developer Week Events and Times Announced

The Ubuntu team has revealed the schedule and events for its next Developer Week. Ubuntu Developer Week events are traditionally held online to introduce new developers (or new to Ubuntu developers) to the Ubuntu development process.

The next Developer Week is slated for January 19th through the 23rd. Events start daily at 16:00 UTC, and occur hourly until 20:00 UTC. The first two scheduled events for Monday (at 16:00-18:00 UTC) are introductory events that will be conducted in several languages.



Open Source, Less Labor, More Love

Open source software is inextricably tied to the idea of giving it away. Projects open their code for a number of reasons -- to better the codebase, or to allow others to bend an application to their own needs. Maybe the reasons are entirely altruistic, or maybe the altruism is the happy side effect of more project-centric decisions.

Of course, the open source approach doesn't just help code, or simply act as the framework for strong applications. The desired end result of any application is to improve the life of the user in some way. It sounds like hyperbole, perhaps, but if an application isn't making work in some way easier (or play more fun), it's not an application you'd want to use again.