List styles and paragraph styles are totally different. List styles contain only list attributes, no text or paragraph formatting attributes. So I decided to make sure that was clear here...
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rTorrent — console P2P!
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In this article I’d like to describe a text-mode Bittorrent client - rTorrent. It will be helpful to people that share a computer with other household members because it allows them to download files regardless of the logged in user.
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Defeat M$ efforts to push Ecma OOXML in Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)
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Anivar Aravindcalls upon saner Indian community to write to BIS and ask them to stop adapting the proprietary standards of Microsoft. Open standards are the way to go. India shouldn’t fall into the trap of proprietary standards and go back to dark ages.
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Today's OLPC stories
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The OLPC project has begun production and everyone wants to have a say. The articles I found all had slightly different slants or information, but not different enough to warrant posting each story as a separate entry. Of course, some opinions are far more positive than others!
Here are the links to the stories I found. If you want to add other links in the comments, feel free.
$100 laptop' production begins (the BBC News)
Linux powered OLPC unable to hit $100 target price (DaniWeb)
Getting to know the OLPC's 'XO' (desktoplinux.com)
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Build a $250 PC That Doesn't Suck
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"When we review budget computers, a phrase we commonly throw around is "just the basics." We use it to denote a PC that can handle e-mail and instant messaging, Web surfing, average office tasks (such as word processing, spreadsheets, and finance management), light photo editing, and simple print-design projects."
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Blindness To Perceptions Of Average User Is Real Linux Handicap
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Alexander Wolfe is at it again... this is the guy who wrote that Linux has too many distros and that Linux isn't technically superior to Windows! Anyway, this is his response to all those outraged comments he received. And he isn't giving an inch...
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Welcome to TheLinuxFund.org
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"The all-new Linux Fund Visa Card launches today. "It's back, and better than ever" said David Mandel, Executive Director."
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Linux most prefered than Windows
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"LONDON, UK: Alfresco Software, Inc., provider of open source enterprise content management has announced the immediate availability of its first-ever global survey of trends in the use of open source software in the enterprise."
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Fedora 8 Test 1
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Tomorrow sees the development freeze of the first test version of Fedora 8. Due to be released on August (Crikey we’re almost in August!!!) 2nd. Hopefully we’ll be able to see some of the features expected in the next release…
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Why Microsoft Should buy Red Hat
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"What's more, Red Hat could help Microsoft gain OSS street cred almost instantly. To me, this would easily become Red Hat's most important contribution to the software industry." Isn't that a fabulous quote? Seriously, read the rest of the article, it's... no, words fail me. Of course, the best bits are the outraged comments at the end...
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Open Source and Web 2.0
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With a headline like that, I get the most buzzword-conscious award for the day. But I can't help myself; I'm currently sitting in the O'Reilly Radar Executive Briefing, listening to publisher Tim O'Reilly give the opening remarks to the small audience of about 150.
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Sabayon Linux v3.4 debuts with ext4 support
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Just days after announcing the first version of Sabayon tuned to business needs including servers, the Italy-based project team has released version 3.4 of its desktop-oriented distribution, claiming "four months of hard and deep development."
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'Classmate PC' showcased running Mandriva Linux
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The Classmate PC, a low-cost notebook targeting emerging markets, was jointly demonstrated by Mandriva and Intel earlier this month at the KDE-sponsored aKademy 2007 conference in Glasgow, Scotland. Featuring an educational interface, Mandriva's Discovery 2007 Linux is based on an Intel Mobile Processor ULV900.
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Ubuntu Live needs a more commercial focus
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Ubuntu gets buzz like mad. Ubuntu is the next wave in Linux. Ubuntu is led by Mark Shuttleworth, a world-famous, charismatic person who buzzes around the world in his private jet, bringing the GNU/Linux gospel to the masses. And Ubuntu has now held its first Ubuntu Live conference, which was a decent first effort but nowhere near as polished as Red Hat's annual get-togethers.
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The LXer Interview: Dave Wreski of EnGarde Secure Linux
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An interview with Dave Wreski CEO of Guardian Digital, makers of EnGarde Secure Linux. I ask him how EnGarde came about, what makes EnGarde different and the effect if any, of the GPLv3 on the software in EnGarde. He answers all these questions and more, in The LXer Interview of Dave Wreski.
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