Novell is looking for buyers and takeover bids may be imminent
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The EU Commission's Digital Agenda Plan
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The EU Commission has just announced its 5-year plan for IT, which they call its Digital Agenda:The Agenda outlines seven priority areas for action...
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EU: NoSoftwarePatents and FFII Respond to Google’s VP8 Announcement
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Initial announcement, interpretation, and comments about the good news from Google
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Pieces of the roaming laptop puzzle in Debian
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Today, the last piece of the puzzle for roaming laptops in Debian Edu finally entered the Debian archive. Today, the new libpam-mklocaluser package was accepted. Two days ago, two other pieces was accepted into unstable. This collection of packages allow for two different setups for roaming laptops.
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Easy Media Converter for Linux? You bet! Miksoft nails it.
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I have used a few converter programs on Linux in the past like, Avidemux, OggConvert, and Pitivi. However, a few months ago I stumbled on a media converter for Linux that I had not heard of before and discovered they had a deb file already created for Ubuntu Linux, so I figured it was worth the few clicks to check it out.
Read more »The First DRM Pull Request For Linux 2.6.35 Kernel
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The Linux 2.6.34 kernel was released only three days ago, but David Airlie has emailed Linus Torvalds and the Linux Kernel Mailing List with the first DRM pull request for the Linux 2.6.35 kernel.
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From Novell to Microsoft to Daemonising Microsoft Critics and GNU/Linux communities
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Microsoft employee Crispin Cowen is using his history to opportunistically gain credibility in his irrational public attacks on GNU/Linux communities
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Rekonq: A Quick Glance At Kubuntu Next Default Browser
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The talk of the town is that the next version of Kubuntu will have a new default browser, replacing Konqueror, the longtime KDE favorite.
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Slackware 13.1 gets a second release candidate
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The Slackware developers have issued a second release candidate (RC2) for version 13.1 of their Linux distribution, updating several of the included components
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Linux Mint 9 (Isadora)
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Whenever a new version of Ubuntu is released, a new version of Linux Mint soon follows. This time around it’s Linux Mint 9. Linux Mint 9 is based on Ubuntu 10.04.
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Siemens Betrays Germans by Legalising Software Patents in Europe
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The scandalous company decides not only to support Microsoft's "Linux tax" but also to help legalise software patents in Germany
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Arch Linux 2010.05 arrives
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The latest 2010.05 images of Arch Linux feature the 2.6.33.4 Linux kernel and a number of updates and bug fixes over the previous 2009.08 release from August of last year
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The Perfect Subversion Server - Debian Lenny [ISPConfig3]
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Subversion is a free/open-source version control system. That is, Subversion manages files and directories, and the changes made to them, over time. This allows you to recover older versions of your data, or examine the history of how your data changed. In this regard, many people think of a version control system as a sort of "time machine".
Read more »German Court Effectively Opens The Floodgates By Saying Software Patents Are Legal
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a German court has effectively allowed a wide range of software patents. Previously, you could have very limited software patents only if they involved using "controllable forces of nature" to create a desired effect. Software usually did not qualify.
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Xiph.Org announces support for the WebM open media project
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The Xiph.Org Foundation is pleased to announce its support of the WebM open media project as a project launch partner. As announced earlier today at the Google I/O Developer Conference, the WebM format combines the VP8 video codec, the Matroska container, and the Vorbis audio codec developed by the Xiph into a high-quality, open, unencumbered format for video delivery on the Web.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanFrom the very start, directories have served a very useful purpose on the Internet. (One I find useful for example is Free Web Directory). News sites can also be considered directories: they index and categorize news stories! What about categorizing software? In the open source world you get Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat; there are still, believe it or not, shareware and freeware directories like FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and Freeware Downloads (although you need to be careful, as they are not like their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselAbout Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software?, it's clear that the topic of software directories is very hot. Most of what you find on Google, however, are not pointing to free and open soruce software -- or worse, they mix the two. Examples of such sites are Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download, which simply don't focus on "free as in freedom", and still can be used as good free software directories.
