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Will Geolocation Find a Home on Linux Desktops?
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| This year, a new dimension is appearing on the Linux desktop. It's
| geolocation: the capability to detect and record where you and other people
| are, and to use the information to enhance the desktop. Potentially affecting
| everything from the metadata stored with files to the mechanics of social
| networking, geolocation is already starting to arrive in GNOME and KDE. But
| the first implementations are only a hint of the features that geolocation
| might soon provide.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3833116/Will-Geolocation-Find-a-Home-on-Linux-Desktops.htm
Related:
clearing up a little confusion about geolocation in Firefox 3.1
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| There has been some confusion around the Geolocation functionality that weâre
| including in Firefox 3.1 Beta 1. ÂI thought I might make a short post to try
| and clear some of it up.
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| 1. Out of the box, Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 doesnât include any back-end providers
| of location information.
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| This is technical-sounding, and it is, but an important thing to understand.
| Aza has a post that provides some more information on this topic. Simply put:
| Firefox has to get its location information from something - a GPS, a service
| like Skyhook or something you set up by hand. ÂThis Beta does not include
| anything out of the box that provides that information - just the hooks to
| use them if they are available. ÂWeâve seen posts that say weâre including
| Skyhook or Loki or other things, and thatâs not true. ÂThatâs why the
| web-tech post on Beta 1 suggests you install an add-on that lets you set your
| location manually.
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http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=819
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