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Computerworld: "Number one with a bullet is one that most of you never think of but, trust me, the PC vendors and developers are painfully aware that Linux needs to do a much better job of managing power."


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OStatic: "The Aurora video shows new ideas on how web users might collaborate in the future. In the video, a user is shown looking at web pages while photos and names of friends or colleagues are shown on screen at the same time. Users collaborating can drag hand-like cursors around to show each other things on the web, and can navigate Mac-like docks with icons for various types of information they may share."


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Phoronix: " The motherboard we are looking at is the ASUS P5E64 WS Professional, which ships with all of the usual ASUS innovations in addition to having four PCI Express x16 slots."


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OStatic: "He suggests that businesses should think twice before using open-source software, lest they find themselves on the receiving end of a lawsuit themselves. Fortunately for the open-source community, his claims don't hold much water."


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InfoWorld: "Awards were given to 60 winners across 8 categories covering business and productivity applications, development tools, middleware, networking, security, and storage. Winners include (among others) OpenOffice.org for office productivity, Snort for network intrusion detection, Splunk for security log analysis, Jitterbit for data and application integration, SugarCRM, Alfresco in content management."


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OStatic: "Acquia, as we've covered before, has been working away on an array of support offerings and services for the powerful open source Drupal content management system (CMS). OStatic is based on Drupal, as are sites such as Fast Company and The Onion. Acquia's goal is to apply a Red Hat-like approach to support and services for Drupal, and it will deliver these offerings later this year."



Updated: Mon Aug 11 23:55:02 2008


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