"It’s finally here. Later today, Dell will offer U.S customers three different systems with Ubuntu 7.04 installed: the XPS 410n and Dimension E520n desktops and the Inspiron E1505n notebook."
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Novell signs on to EFF patent busting project
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Novell and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have announced that the owners of SUSE Linux will help bankroll the EFF's fight against bogus patents and work towards meaningful patent reform on a global level.
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We're all Linux users
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Face it: we're all already Linux users. Do you use the Web? Google? TiVo? Mobile phones are next (check out upcoming Rokr and Razr2 models), and desktops will likely follow.
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Dell explains Linux to non-technical users
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Well, sort of. On the StudioDell site where they have all their DellTV-ish howtos and infos, they've got a new 5 minute video called: "Linux 101: What's all the Fuss?" It focuses heavily on Ubuntu with screencasts to go with the commentary that roughly explains the concept of open source and gives examples of popular open source applications.
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A Visit to Worlds Fastest University Supercomputer
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Jemmille recently visited the "Big Red" supercomputer at Indiana University. It is capable of a theoretical 20.4 trillion operations per second and has 4 terabytes of memory. It is powered by SUSE Linux. If sources are correct, that power has now been doubled. One awesome computer. (pic)
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OLPC Game Jam for an XO Laptop
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The OLPC project has announced a three-day game development jam session is scheduled to begin June 8 on the campus of Olin College, an engineering school in Needham, Massachusetts.
Read more »Hardware Firewall On a USB Key
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An Israeli startup has squeezed a complete hardware firewall into a USB key. The 'Yoggie Pico' from Yoggie Systems runs Linux 2.6 along with 13 security applications on a 520MHz PXA270, an Intel processor typically used in high-end smartphones.
Read more »Linux Finally Getting XBMC
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XBMC is getting ported to GNU/Linux. A few developers of Team-XBMC have begun the porting of XBMC to GNU/Linux using OpenGL and the SDL toolkit. In this effort, they are recruiting developers. XBMC is, by far, one of the finest projects to come out of the free software community; and to think it is homebrew.
Read more »Fedora 7 released
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Fedora 7, the latest version of the popular community-driven GNU/Linux distribution sponsored by Red Hat, was released this morning. This is the first Fedora release to incorporate and unify both the Core and Extra platform components, thus obviating the need for the traditional inclusion of the word "Core" in the distribution's name.
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MS Sees No Conflict with Its Patent/Open Source Initiatives
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Microsoft does not believe there is an inherent contradiction between its recent statements that free and open-source software infringes on 235 of its patents, and the veiled legal threats that go along with that, and its attempts to reach out and build bridges with the open-source community.
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Democracy Player receives $100,000 from Mozilla
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In their last board meeting, it was decided that Mozilla would give a $100,000 grant to the Participatory Culture Foundation, the makers of the Democracy Player. PCF, like CC, aligns well with Mozilla and its manifesto. Additionally, PCF has projects that are built partly on Mozilla’s technology.
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Germany adopts "anti-hacker" law; critics say it breeds insecurity
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Germany has just passed a new law that adds more "anti-hacker" provisions to the German criminal code. Although the new rules are meant to apply narrowly to hacking, critics are already complaining that they may prevent necessary security and network research.
Read more »FSF Releases "Last Call" Draft of GPLv3
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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today released the fourth and “last call” draft for version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL), the world's most widely used free software license. The Foundation will hear comments on the latest draft for 29 days, and expects to officially publish the license on Friday, June 29, 2007.
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The Church of Emacs
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"GNU Emacs, in common with a few other very good things, is best appreciated through experience rather than cold-blooded description. Thanks to its sheer extensibility, and the long gestation of such shared code works, it has become all things to all people, and thus increasingly difficult to pin down"
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Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Ubuntu applications
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Today we've chosen our favorite ten Ubuntu software applications that are exclusive to GNU/Linux. Add them to your Ubuntu desktop to make your install pop.
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