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Source: pud

Chen Pin-shiun has announced the release of a new edition of PUD GNU/Linux, an Ubuntu-based mini-distribution and live CD. The most interesting part of this release is the fact that it uses LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment), a new GTK+-based, light-weight and standards compliant desktop environment designed for .

Source: freespire

The second development build of Freespire 2.0 has been released: "Freespire version 2.0 Alpha2 (1.1.73) is now available for download. This is the second alpha build that might not be good for the health of a production machine. Expect improvements as future builds are released." From the release .

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Think of this, if you will, as the Tivoization of Office files, only with malicious intent

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Red Hat customers are mulling their options. But they can be bought

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Since 2000, the non-profit Open Source Development Lab has been a champion of Linux and Open Source in enterprise environments

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CIO Insight each year solicits its readers to vote on the top IT vendors. As you know, Red Hat was rated #1 for the last two years. Pretty impressive

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The South Korean government and local tech companies have started an open source student developer contest, similar to Google's Summer of Code

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Linux.com's previous coverage of an alleged violation of the GNU General Public License (GPL) by IChessu in Israel has become part of the legal arguments in the case

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This is a significant milestone for Microsoft because, if the standard is approved by ISO, it will deflect criticism that its software is not standards-based

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Following the release of the of the 2.6.19 kernel, Andrew Morton offered a list of patches in his -mm tree, summarizing for each his plans as to whether or not they will be pushed to Linus for inclusion in the upcoming 2.6.20 kernel

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After seven years of work, the LinuxBIOS project is on the brink of making a free BIOS a standard option for computers

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Recently Medsphere, supposedly an 'Open Source' Medical Software Company, has sued its founders Scott and Steve Shreeve. Why? Medsphere claims that the Shreeves illegally released Medsphere software to Sourceforge

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This hands-on review takes an in-depth look at the phone's software environment, and at the development tools supplied with the phone

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DomainKeys is an anti-spam software application in development at Yahoo that uses a form of public key cryptography to authenticate the sender's domain

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This article explains the basics of RSS, some of its many uses, how to use PHP to create an RSS feed from a database, and how to use the XML_RSS module to read an existing RSS feed and translate it into HTML

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Today's security advisories: asterisk (Debian GNU/Linux); wv (Gentoo Linux); xine-lib and ruby (Mandriva Linux); mod_auth_kerb and gnupg (Red Hat Linux); kernel and gnupg (rPath Linux); and evince, evince-gtk, and gnupg (Ubuntu).

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This is one post in a series, describing challenges we need to overcome to make free software ubiquitous on the desktop

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Mozilla announced today that Firefox browser fans are underwriting four 30-second videos to air on U.S. primetime TV this month

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For many in the music business, the sky is about to fall. Or so they think. 'Why will anyone buy our wares if we don't force them to do so by preventing copying ?!?'

Source: Slashdot: Linux

Ditesh writes "The Malaysian Open Source Masterplan, which favoured open source over proprietary public sector procurements when all other evaluations are equal, has been reversed to a purely 'neutral technology platform' policy due to 'negative reaction towards open source (from the IT market)'. This comes after months of hard lobbying by Microsoft Malaysia. This reversal is certainly unfortunate, as the policy has helped raise comfort levels of other policy makers worldwide in pursuing similar goals. The Malaysian Open Source Alliance has published a position statement asking for clarification of the term 'neutrality', and has received support from MNC's, local companies and free software developers in Malaysia."

Source: Slashdot: Linux

mu22le writes "A few Sony patches to the Linux kernel have just been merged in the mainline tree, to be included in the 2.6.20 release. The patches add 'core platform support for the PS3 game console and other devices using the PS3 hypervisor.'" From the Linux Devices article: "Linux gained generic support for the Cell processor, on which the PS3 is based, with the 2.6.13 release in June of 2005. The new Sony-contributed patches to the 2.6.20 kernel appear to add machine-specific support for technology such as the PS3's memory architecture, DMA (direct memory access) model, and SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) model. A Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) distribution has been available for the PS3 since October, thanks to a development deal between Sony and YDL publisher TerraSoft. However, YDL so far has not been bundled with early PS3 shipments, despite earlier indications from Sony Entertainment's CEO, Ken Kuturagi."