Red Hat sponsored a Code Challenge competition at the University of Limerick campus in Ireland that coincided with the 15th anniversary of the University’s computing society, Skynet. Couldn’t make it to the emerald shores for the celebration? We’ve got the travel diary from one of Red Hat’s people on-the-scene, so you don’t miss a minute.
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When I was an undergraduate student a few years ago, I was a member of a Linux Users’ Group (LUG) at my college. At this particular college, laptops were a requirement, and most students purchased their laptops directly from the college. At the beginning of each semester, new students would pick up their laptops at designated spots around campus.
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As long-time readers of the Magazine know, we’re big fans of science fiction writer and copyfighter Cory Doctorow. He was kind enough to dial in for an interview last year, and followed that with a rousing keynote speech at the Red Hat Summit.
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One Laptop Per Child comes closer to being a reality every day — and every day, more people are looking for ways to get involved with the OLPC project. It will still be quite a while before the XO systems are available for broad distribution, but people can see for themselves what the XO is all about by downloading Sugar, the core of the OLPC Human Interface.
We held the third annual FUDCon Boston (Fedora Users and Developers Conference) from February 2nd – 4th at Boston University. In the spirit of Greg DeKoenigsberg’s FUDCon summary from last year, I offer you a pseudo-realtime commentary of the weekend.
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You’ve heard about the One Laptop per Child project. We’ve written about it. So have Wired and Popular Science magazines. Eager to see how this child-friendly laptop will work? What it will look like?
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This week’s office meme (pulled from digg, of course) has been the fifteen geek movies to see before you die. How do we stack up? Collectively, we’ve seen 14 out of 15. Pretty good for a tech magazine. In fact, one person (that would be me, thanks) has seen 14 of the lot herself, with the 15th (Brazil, in case you were wondering) already sitting in her Netflix queue. At #24.
