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Source: earos

Acoustic Reality has announced the release of eAR OS 1.08, an Ubuntu-based, multimedia-oriented distribution featuring an advanced media centre: "eAR OS Free edition 1.08 has been released for free download. New features have been added, for example you may now record your LPs to the hard disk in .


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Source: damnsmall

Robert Shingledecker has announced that the first release candidate for Damn Small Linux 4.4 is out and ready for testing: "Damn Small Linux 4.4RC1 is now available in the Release Candidate section. Changelog: New Lua/Fltk re-factored for enhanced performance; new Fltk library now available for C/C++ programs; update .


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Source: weekly

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Perspectives: On technology versus ideology, Ubuntu hate News: Bleeding-edge Fedora, Shuttleworth on release synchronisation, Debian's OpenSSL vulnerability, interview with Ian Murdock, Gentoo Foundation status update Released last week: Fedora 9, MEPIS antiX 7.2 Upcoming releases: Fedora 10 release schedule New additions: eAR OS, .



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Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "Since the introduction of AMD's new Linux OpenGL driver and their open-source strategy running in parallel, the past few months have been especially exciting for ATI Linux users and the Linux graphics scene in general "


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Ubuntu Geek: "Zattoo has developed a software program that allows you to watch TV on your computer "


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Computerworld UK: "Now, there's no information on the LiveRadio site about what the latter might be, but there's a pretty good chance it's some flavour of Linux "


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Source: Linux Today

In Search for Ultimate Programming Language: "So, Microsoft puts out its hand and offers help with porting open-source software, to make it run best on the Windows platform "


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OStatic: "Most open-source packages are not that complicated to install and configure "


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The VAR Guy: "Okay, it has been about a month since Red Hat said it had no plans to offer a consumer Linux release. Lots of folks went ballistic "


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Free Software Magazine: "The OOXML event proved that we're in a real fight, and that money and power can break down the existing polite rules and agreements that constitute the international standardization process "


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eWeek: "Google paid $25,000 each to 50 programming teams to build apps that aren't relevant to the enterprise. What's next ?"


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Linux.com: "In that regard, is any operating system truly ready for the desktop ?"


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Hoosier Penguin: "SMBs need something streamlined, fast, powerful, and inexpensive to get the job done. Sounds like open source software to me "


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Enterprise Linux Logs: "Astrum Inc., a software security company in Carrollton, Texas, has filed suit against Novell Inc. Astrum claims that Novell violated its contract regarding development of the mini-operating system appliance that Novell launched last month "


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Field Commander Wieers: "Mark Shuttleworth's recent pledge to join a synchronised release plan for Enterprise Linux distributions is no more than a wish to benefit from a lot of work that Novell and Red Hat are already doing in the Enterprise space "


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Wine Review: "wine-1.0rc1 was released on Friday, May 9th, 2008. Wine is now in a code freeze in preparation for the 1.0 release "


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The 451 Group: "There was some interesting discussion following my post last week asking whether there is a growing rift between commercial open source software vendors and some aspects of the open source user community "


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Free Software Magazine: "The annual Google Summer of Code is upon us again. For the uninformed, that's when Google pays hundreds of students and hundreds of mentors to work on free software projects, ranging from AbiSource to Zumastor "


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The Register: "The recently appointed head of Microsoft's global Linux and open source team hopes the company will have a clear and comprehensible open source strategy by 2015 "


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Cyber Cynic: "I've loved Firefox since version 0.93. It was so much better than Internet Explorer and the other alternatives that I couldn't imagine using anything else "


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Network World: "SpamAssassin, popular open source spam-filtering software, will have deadlier aim thanks to an add-on tool that is being offered free of charge to small businesses and individuals by MailChannels "


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PC World: "Former One Laptop Per Child President of software and content Walter Bender has launched Sugar Labs, an organization that will promote the development of the open-source user interface originally developed for the XO laptop "


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Fortune/Apple 2.0: "The headline was that most developers are still not targeting Windows Vista when they write new apps "


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LKML.org: "This time around, we have 60+% of the changes in drivers, notably drives/video and drivers/media, with some infiniband, networking and usb lovin' to fill things out "


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Linux Journal: "While I don't think my article was the reason the issues were addressed, less than a year later just about every limitation I highlighted has been eradicated. Welcome LTSP 5 "


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Linux.com: "Though the tools for voice control and dictation in the open source world lag far behind those in the commercial arena, I decided to see how far I could get in querying a database by voice and having the computer respond verbally "


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Really Linux: "In this article, Mark Rais shares a list of those essential networking commands every beginning Linux administrator needs to know "


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Phoronix: " [T]his morning we are publishing some initial benchmarks from the Phoronix Test Suite when running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS as the host OS and then running it as the guest operating system with hardware-based acceleration through KVM "



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

getupstandup1 writes "Ulteo today unveiled their Virtual Desktop (screenshots, download) which is a free, full Linux desktop that runs seamlessly on Windows. It's interesting because it's not running under Xen or VMWare, but instead uses the coLinux patch, which they claim allows the system to achieve 'great performance, close to a native installation on the PC.' No need to reboot the system anymore to switch from Windows to Linux." We discussed Ulteo when the Ubuntu-derived distro was announced a year back.Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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An anonymous reader writes "Former Gentoo developer Bryan Østergaard recently announced a new linux distribution aptly named Exherbo. The distribution, which has been underway for a couple of months and is based on ideas and experiences from his long work with Gentoo, features a new packaging format and several subprojects, such as a redesigned init system. Currently no installation medium is available but their package tree is public for the daring ones who want to play with the upcoming distribution. The developers strongly discourage any serious use though as it's still highly experimental."Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Source: ONLamp.com

Okay, this is pretty damn funny: Open Source in 2013. My favorite line: Americans, who through no fault of their own, lost jobs due to the closing of Microsoft they once believed were theirs for life, are assisted by the Linux Foundation’s


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Source: ONLamp.com

Information Week published the results of Q&A sessions with Microsoft's Sam Ramji (senior director of platform strategy) and Tom Robertson (general manager of standards and interoperability). Microsoft Open Source, Standards Chiefs Tout 'Openness' Here's a sample of the questions Information Week asked:



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