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Fedora Board elections -- voting open

http://lwn.net

Voting is now open for the Fedora Board elections.
As a reminder, we are electing 3 of the 9 seats during this election.

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Build extensions for Eclipse one snippet at a time

http://www.ibm.com

Find out how to build a plug-in for Eclipse and Rational Application Developer V7. You can use this plug-in to define snippets that let you add code that follows enterprise standards. Similar to the Snippets view that comes with the Web Tools Project, this plug-in allows you to drag and drop pieces of code into the editor.

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Red Hat Profit Surges 17 Percent in Q1

http://www.linuxinsider.com

Red Hat's first quarter profit, reported Wednesday, jumped 17 percent from the year-ago period, bolstered by new offerings and the continuation of high-dollar partnerships. In October, shares of Red Hat tumbled 24 percent on the news that Oracle was to move aggressively onto Red Hat's turf by selling maintenance services for Red Hat products.

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What's Open Source Worth on Wall Street?

http://www.linuxinsider.com

"The open source model, as Red Hat has proven, can be extremely profitable," says Kevin Harvey, a general partner at Benchmark Capital, and MySQL's chairman. "It's not a story of profits at first; it's a story of profits you'll generate as you grow." MySQL would like to see considerably more growth, even before selling stock to the public.

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Created by dave 17 years 13 weeks ago
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Bring Out the GIMP Part 1: GIMP Basics

http://www.maximumpc.com

No matter which Linux distro you run, chances are it came with a magnificent little image editor called GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program). Unlike Paint and other free-with-your-OS image editors, GIMP is a full featured graphics app with a broad range of capabilities that rival those os Adobe Photoshop.

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Greens don't accept Berlin 'nein' to open source

http://www.linuxworld.com

The Green Party is accusing the Berlin city government of lacking a coherent IT strategy and thus not being in a position to adequately judge the merits of open source software.

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Created by C733tus 17 years 13 weeks ago
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Tribe 2 released

https://lists.ubuntu.com

"welcome to Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 2, which will in time become Ubuntu 7.10."

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Created by bridget 17 years 13 weeks ago
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Is a Linux Civil War in the Making?

http://www.eweek.com

"Opinion: Is Microsoft just selling the ammo? Or, is Microsoft fighting the wrong war with the wrong weapons?"

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Created by bridget 17 years 13 weeks ago
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Vista security baloney

http://www.linux-watch.com

"If you believe Jeff Jones, Microsoft's security strategy director, then Vista is much more secure than XP, Mac OS X, and Linux."

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Is the next President of the United States running Linux?

http://www.douglaskarr.com

"Earlier today I read a post about Ron Paul’s website. Interestingly, his site is less of a typical candidate site and more of a mashup of other sources of information about him."

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Microsoft Gives OIN the Cold Shoulder

http://www.eweek.com

"Microsoft has no current plans to join the Open Innovation Network, a move that some in the free and open-source community have suggested would benefit them both."

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Created by bridget 17 years 13 weeks ago
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Free Software's Anti-Steve

http://www.forbes.com

"We now know what happens when big hairy software coders work with big hairy lawyers. The result, understandably, is anything but slick."

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Scientific Linux 4.5: new release offers speed boost

http://www.linux.com

"Officially released Monday, Scientific Linux 4.5 can now be installed as a Xen paravirtual guest which, according to the developers "gives a significant speed increase over fully virtualized guests.""

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Created by bluecheese 17 years 13 weeks ago
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An Antic Disposition: A File Format Timeline

http://www.robweir.com

Microsoft's attitude towards file formats. When a picture is better than 1000 words...

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Created by anna 17 years 13 weeks ago
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Sun CEO Mum on GPLv3, Reveals Licensing Hopes

http://www.pcworld.com

Everything we build will be built in the open source community, it will be built with a community of partners around us and, with all deference to my friends from the Linux world, under a coherent license that we can draft, ideally in concert with Linus, so we end up with a common platform and a common opportunity.

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