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Apple iPhone and DRM

http://www.defectivebydesign.org

The iPhone hype hides a basic problem with the product – Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) inside the iPhone means that it wont be under your control. Apple has built this “smart” phone to dumb you down.

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OpenSAF 1.0 Ready For Download

http://www.technologynewsdaily.com

Initial support for OpenSAF is coming from a broad industry segment including Ericsson, HP, Motorola, Nokia Siemens Networks and Sun Microsystems.

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GIMP tricks: Rotating Sphere with GAP

http://polishlinux.org

This article shows how to create an rotating sphere in GIMP with GAP plugin. Basic knowledge of this graphics manipulation suite will be required to successfully follow the tutorial.

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TurboLinux Wizpy Review

http://www.linuxlookup.com

Though Linux in the mainstream has come a long way over the past few years, there is still this stigma of being difficult to install and use. The TurboLinux Wizpy is trying to sway consumer perception with the introduction of a pocket-sized multimedia player that contains a bootable version of TurboLinux operating system.

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Interview with David Turner of Freetype

http://osnews.com

Today we feature a very interesting interview with David Turner, one of the main Freetype developers, discussing the project's past and future. These days, David continues his work in Freetype even after having been hired by Google.

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How to install, setup and use Google Desktop Search in Ubuntu

http://www.simplehelp.net

This brief tutorial/overview will walk you step-by-step through installing, setting up and using Google Desktop Search for Linux - specifically in Ubuntu. [Disclaimer: Google Desktop is NOT free software]

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AMD Radeon HD 2400PRO/2600XT Preview

http://www.phoronix.com

Today AMD has officially released their low-end and mainstream graphics cards in the Radeon HD 2000 family, the Radeon HD 2400 and Radeon HD 2600 series respectively. While these new graphics cards should already be at your favorite retailer or presently in route, where are the Linux drivers?

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AMD 8.38.7 Display Driver

http://www.phoronix.com

AMD has issued its first-ever hot-fix release for the Linux fglrx driver. This release corrects an aticonfig crash that removes the xorg.conf if you are using the vesa driver.

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Adding a little Cream to (g)Vim

http://www.linux.com

Even though I'm a die-hard Emacs user, there are times when I have to use the vi editor -- specifically gVim, the graphical face of the popular vi clone Vim. Since I use gVim so infrequently, I don't readily remember many of the editor's basic commands. Either I muddle through or reach for my well-thumbed copy of the vi Editor Pocket Reference. That was until I discovered Cream.

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Bundestag: "Open-source strategy is not in jeopardy"

http://www.heise.de

Susanne Kastner, the chairperson of the Commission of the Council of Elders on the Use of New Information and Communications Technologies in the Bundestag (the lower chamber of Germany's Federal Parliament), has defended the decision in favor of MS Exchange and Outlook as a groupware solution for the parliamentarians.

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Created by tony 17 years 14 weeks ago
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Microsoft Is Counting Bugs Again

http://www.microsoft-watch.com

Entomology is one of my passions, but I take a different view of bugs than Microsoft—and not just by kind. The company is once again counting security bugs, and possibly to a fault.
There are some things you count and compare, and some things you don't.

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FFII puts up a prize in fight against Microsoft Office standardisation

http://technocrat.net

The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), said that it was putting up a 2,500 Euro prize in its fight against Microsoft's attempt to gain international standardisation for its Office format.

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Created by leo 17 years 14 weeks ago
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GNU-Linux Software License Revision Praised By SIFMA

http://www.sifma.org

The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) today commended the Free Software Foundation and the Software Freedom Law Center for their significant work in introducing Version 3 of the General Public License (GPL).

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Created by leo 17 years 14 weeks ago
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Tomorrow [Friday] GPLv3 is Released

http://www.groklaw.net

Tomorrow at noon GPLv3 will be released. I was on one of the committees, so it's a relief it's finally done. I just wanted to say out loud how hard it was to try to get everyone's wants included. But the effort was real. And not everybody on the committees were fanbois either, from what I saw on the committee I was on. Lots of give and take.

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Created by leo 17 years 14 weeks ago
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Red Hat tight lipped on Microsoft talks

http://www.theregister.co.uk

The debate over who in the Linux camp will next get into bed with Microsoft is back on, after Red Hat's chief executive admitted to holding patent talks.

The only question is over what terms and at what point.

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