Heroes star Masi Oka, also known as "hey, that's the guy from Scrubs", has just been "chosen" to be the OLPC Global Ambassador.
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No worries: head of MEPIS Linux is fine
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Users of the popular Linux distribution MEPIS were getting worried about the distribution's leader, who had been rather quiet lately.
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Why Novell is like Napster-era Metallica
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Remember back when Metallica isolated the majority of their fan base with their over-the-top stance against Napster (for the moment let's leave the stupidity of the music business and the fact that it only has itself to blame for people pirating songs out of this) and what it did to the band and the fans that supported them for all those years? That's how I am starting to think of Novell.
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Free Linux Course for Beginners
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LinuxBasics.org, The community that helps people to run Linux, offers their second free Linux class, An Introduction to Linux Basics.
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Free Software Conference Scandinavia, Göteborg, Sweden (2007-12-07 - 2007-12-08)
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"The FSFE is organising the Free Software Conference Scandinavia (FSCONS), taking place in Gothenburg, Sweden on the 7th and 8th of December 2007. It is the first in its kind event in the region, inspired by the growing momentum around Free Software."
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A call to action: Lightning/Sunbird end-user documentation
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"We often get feedback from people that want to contribute to the Calendar apps, but lack the technical skills needed for programming. This post is for you. We need your help! ..."
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Nokia N810 Wins LAPTOP's Best of CTIA Award for Best Overall Product
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"Nokia today announced that the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, the newest device in the company's Nseries line, was honored with LAPTOP's Best of CTIA Award in the Best Overall Product category at the CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment 2007 Show..."
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Brendan Eich: Open letter to Chris Wilson
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"...the obvious conflict of interest between the standards-based web and proprietary platforms advanced by Microsoft, and the rationales for keeping the web's client-side programming language small while the proprietary platforms rapidly evolve support for large languages, does not help maintain the fiction that only clashing high-level philosophies are involved here..."
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Open Web Gains New Open Source Development Tools
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"ActiveState Releases Open Komodo and Initiates Komodo Snapdragon Project"
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My Distribution is the most updated.
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The stable repositories of Arch and PCLinuxOS have latest Gimp (2.4.0) just two days after its release. The remaining ones including Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Mandriva all have a previous version in their official stable repositories. This indicates how frequently these distributions update their repositories with latest software.
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PCLinuxOS Bounces Back on Distrowatch
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PCLinuxOS had temporarily lost its lead in PHR on Distrowatch to Ubuntu, after release of Gutsy Gibbon, but now has regained it.
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US tops dirty-dozen spam-relaying countries for Q3 2007
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Sophos, the anti-virus and anti-spam software maker, have released their report on span-relaying countries for Q3 2007.
US still leads the pack of spammers with over 30% contribution to SPAM
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Songbird 0.3 Is Launched!
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"Birdwatchers, Big news! Today Songbird shows some wing, shows some leg and leaps media players into the next era of innovation..."
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Download and test the Firefox 2.0.0.9 Beta
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"The release candidate for Firefox 2.0.0.9 is now available. We'd love for people running 2.0.0.8 to take a look at it if they have the time..."
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ECMAScript Edition 4
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"...The situation appears to be that Microsoft doesn't want major new features in ECMAScript, whereas Mozilla and Adobe want to evolve it rather dramatically..."
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