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PC-BSD 8.1 released, running FreeBSD 8.1, and KDE 4.4.5

http://www.pcbsd.org

PC-BSD is a free, open-source operating system based on rock-solid FreeBSD. The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 8.1 (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE, and KDE 4.4.5. Also brings: numerous fixes to the installation backend, support for creating dedicated disk GPT partitioning, improved ZFS support

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Created by JRepin 11 years 44 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 44 weeks ago
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Declarations of OS Independence

http://www.theopensourcery.com

It's about time. Dell and HP have recently made very strong declarations of OS independence from Microsoft.

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Created by innerphaze 12 years 3 days ago – Made popular 12 years 3 days ago
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GNU HURD in April 2010

http://www.gnu.org

A month of the Hurd: Arch Hurd, updated Debian GNU/Hurd QEMU image, and GSoC students.

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Created by JRepin 12 years 3 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 3 weeks ago
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Linux Kernel 2.6.33 Released

http://kernelnewbies.org

This version features Nouveau (a reverse-engineered driver for Nvidia graphic cards), Nintendo Wii and Gamecube support, DRDB (Distributed Replicated Block Device), a security extension for TCP called "cookie transactions", a syscall for batching recvmsg() calls, several new perf subcommands (perf probe, perf bench, perf kmem, perf diff)...

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Created by JRepin 12 years 13 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 13 weeks ago
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PC-BSD 8.0 FINAL Released

http://www.pcbsd.org

PC-BSD is a free, open-source operating system based on rock-solid FreeBSD and is designed for use on the desktop so it is easy to use. PC-BSD 8.0 (Hubble Edition) is running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-P2, and KDE SC 4.3.5. It features brand new graphical installer and can run in Live mode directly from DVD.

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Created by JRepin 12 years 13 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 13 weeks ago
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Linux 2.6.32 Released

http://kernelnewbies.org

This version adds virtualization memory de-duplicacion, a rewrite of the writeback code which provides noticeable performance speedups, many important Btrfs improvements and speedups, ATI R600/R700 3D and KMS support and other graphic improvements, a CFQ low latency mode, tracing improvements including a "perf timechart" tool that tries to be a better bootchart, soft limits in the memory controller, support for the S+Core architecture, support for Intel Moorestown and its new firmware interface, run time power management support, and many other improvements and new drivers.

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Created by JRepin 12 years 25 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 25 weeks ago
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Linux is not an Operating System

http://www.tech-no-media.com

Last week Google announced their intention to release an operating system based on Linux. The reaction of some people on reddit was: "No, another neutered, watered-down, crapitized "linux". Linux will once again be viewed as a sub par, 'specialized' OS." Well, this is not possible because Linux is not really an operating system, it is a kernel.

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Created by Erlik 12 years 45 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 45 weeks ago
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The Google OS Is Real

http://www.lockergnome.com

What you are about to discover in this article is perhaps the most significant thing Google has released since…well, ever. The Google operating system is real, it is to be called the Google Chrome OS and it is going to change the way we think of operating systems.

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Created by Ubuntu87 12 years 46 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 46 weeks ago
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Lighttpd by Andre Bogus- Book Review

http://www.sexybiggetje.nl

This book guides you to everything you will need to know to installing, maintaining and getting the best out of Lighttpd (or "Lighty" if you will). This piece of software is named correctly for its purpose, being a lightweight webserver. There are chapters about building Lighttpd, but even more interesting the book goes in depth about optimizing and securing the software.

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Created by Anusonia 13 years 4 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 4 weeks ago
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Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Has Been Released

http://webupd8.blogspot.com

New features include:

1) Gnome 2.26 desktop environment, which includes the following new features:

a) brasero, an all-in-one CD burning application.
b) Improved multi-monitor handling.

2) X.Org server 1.6,

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Created by nilarimogard 13 years 5 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 5 weeks ago
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Why Linux sucks at being user friendly

http://www.itwire.com

Some good points, some that are stretching credibility a little. Overall a thought provoking posting though.

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Created by bigpinkpig 13 years 29 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 29 weeks ago
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Creating Bootable USB Stick Linux Systems On The Easy

http://www.bauer-power.net

One of the coolest things ever invented was the OS on the stick. Whoever was smart enough to think of putting an operating system on a portable USB key was simply brilliant! I mean, seriously! How convenient is that?

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Created by serdar 13 years 33 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 33 weeks ago
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GNU/something

http://polishlinux.org

This article might seem to be not serious, or even a little bit heretical. Well, so be it. I’ll write what I think I should write and what I see as true. Whether is it the same in your case — dear Reader — we’ll see. First of all, let me ask you a basic question: Which operating system do you use? What are the possible answers? Windows, Linux, Solaris or Mac OS X of course. But let us try to think different for a moment. Maybe it is possible, that this answer would be, for example KDE?

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Created by greengrass 14 years 16 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 16 weeks ago
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Europe Says Bye to OS Monopoly

http://www.madpenguin.org

Looks like Europe is collectively ready to bring Microsoft's monopoly down so that other OS options will have a chance to flourish. Well, at least one group of like-minded people have managed to begin clearing the playing field some.

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Created by mark 14 years 29 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 29 weeks ago
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Fewer flaws FUD wars as Microsoft paints misleading picture of Linux security

http://www.daniweb.com

Microsoft security 'vulnerability scorecard' gives false impression of OS security, suggesting Windows is the most secure of all. Of course, start to look behind the pretty graphs and the ugly truth emerges that this is just more Microsoft FUD to try and derail the free software machine.

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Created by achingbaby 14 years 40 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 40 weeks ago
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