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Video: The source code of democracy

http://www.redhatmagazine.com

See Alan Dechert from the Open Voting Consortium talks about the importance of changing the voting system.

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The Mass. OOXML Announcement: What the Scribes Say

http://www.consortiuminfo.org

A summary piece about what the journos are saying about the Mas. OOXML announcement.

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The Intel Betrayal (of Linux)

http://www.raiden.net

"Over the past several days I've been mulling over the news of Intel's apparent backstabbing of the Linux and BSD communities by hiding the truth about the flaws in their Core 2 chips."

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Developer annoys open source faithful over code release

http://www.techworld.com

"Open-source developer Parallels finally released the source code for the Wine software used by Parallels Desktop 3.0 on Monday - but only after weeks of prodding by Wine developers and negative publicity on the IT forum Slashdot."

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Created by bridget 17 years 15 weeks ago
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Enlighten your desktop with Elive

http://www.packtpub.com

Unless you're an old Linux user, you've only probably used the KDE, GNOME or Xfce desktop environments. But since the time when these desktops were in their infancy, the Enlightenment desktop environment has been impressing users. Bringing this mature, visually appealing environment to new Linux users is what the Elive distribution is all about.

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Created by geekyBodhi 17 years 15 weeks ago
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Make Firefox Use Multiple Rows of Tabs

http://www.howtogeek.com

If you are a Firefox power user like I am, then you probably have dozens of tabs open all the time. After trying a number of different options, I've finally settled on using multiple rows of tabs as the best option.

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Created by Jimbob 17 years 15 weeks ago
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Open-source evolves from 'nerdy' to notable

http://www.iht.com

As the open-source movement completes its first decade, the fast-growing industry is at a crossroads, experts say, having advanced from nerdy novelty to recognized market niche while attracting the double-edged attention of its biggest rivals.

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French Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Choose Mandriva

http://www.mandriva.com

The French Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries chooses Mandriva Corporate Server 4.0 for its servers.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries chose to migrate its local servers (about 400 machines) from Windows NT Server to Mandriva Corporate Server 4.0, within two years.

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Full Circle Magazine Issue 2

http://fullcirclemagazine.org

The Ubuntu focused "Full Circle Magazine" has just released issue 2.

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Created by C733tus 17 years 15 weeks ago
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AMD applies make-up to the face of its Linux Control Centre

http://www.theinquirer.net

I'm glad to report that AMD seems to have learned the lesson and at least the cosmetic part of the control centre has been improved greatly,

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Created by C733tus 17 years 15 weeks ago
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That Which Survives

http://tuxdeluxe.org

Proprietary record formats will increase the difficulty of preserving our culture, on top of the problems with obsolete hardware interfaces and the decay of storage media we think of as permanent. File data formats that are not published standards are just asking for trouble for long term data storage.

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Created by C733tus 17 years 15 weeks ago
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FSFE - Six questions to national standardisation bodies about MS-OOXML

http://fsfeurope.org

The following six questions relate to the application of the ECMA/MS-OOXML format to be accepted as an IEC/ISO standard. Unless a national standardisation body has conclusive answers to all of them, it should vote no in IEC/ISO and request that Microsoft incorporate its work on MS-OOXML into ISO/IEC 26300:2006 (Open Document Format).

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Created by C733tus 17 years 15 weeks ago
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Business: A Camp Divided on Microsoft Deals

http://www.linuxinsider.com

The Linux community is splitting -- right down the middle, at this point -- over Microsoft's controversial claims that the open source operating system infringes on patents it holds. On June 19, Paris-based Mandriva became the third Linux vendor within five days to say it isn't interested in signing a licensing deal with Microsoft to avoid possible infringement claims.

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Created by snotbutter 17 years 15 weeks ago
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Emacs 22 enhancements make venerable editor flashy again

http://www.linux.com

Emacs 22.1 hit the street a month ago, a long-awaited update to the GNU project's customizable and extensible do-everything super-editor that has been six years in the making. Here's a look at what you'll find in the new version.

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Created by snotbutter 17 years 15 weeks ago
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Manage partitions and disks with GParted-Clonezilla live CD

http://www.linux.com

Backing up partitions and hard disks sounds like work -- until you've tried Clonezilla. With Clonezilla you can clone and duplicate partitions of various formats and disks of various sizes locally or over the network. Even more impressive is the fact that you can do all this without typing complicated commands.

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