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Wine 1.1.41 Released

http://www.wine-reviews.net

The Wine development release 1.1.41 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • A wide range of Direct3D improvements.
  • Support for SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512 algorithms.
  • A number of MSHTML fixes.
  • Support for mp3 decoding on Mac OS X.
  • Various widl improvements.
  • More typelib fixes.
  • OLE storage improvements.
  • Various bug fixes.
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Apache Shows Why GNU/Linux is Safer Than Microsoft Windows; Microsoft Makes Batteries Dangerous

http://boycottnovell.com

Windows shows that it not only brings security problems to Apache but also to battery chargers

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The best way to fight viruses? stop using Windows

http://www.itwire.com

You can accuse Microsoft of many things but you can never accuse the company of being short on chutzpah.

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The Move to Linux – “Daddy’s a penguin!”

http://www.linuxjournal.com

It might come as a surprise that terms like Linux and Open Source and epiphytes like bloody Microsoft and it shouldn’t be this hard are fairly common in my household. And not always spoken by me!

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Sikuli (GUI Automation Using Screenshots) Moves To Launchpad, Finally Works On Linux

http://www.webupd8.org

Sikuli is a visual technology to search and automate graphical user interfaces (GUI) using images (screenshots) which we've covered not so long ago but which at the time of our post didn't work on Linux (but did work on Windows and Mac OS X) [...]

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A family's experience with Free Software, the Internet and autism

http://stop.zona-m.net

A mother explains how and why her and her autistic son really like Ubuntu, but are still forced to use Windows in certain moments

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Why Microsoft Suddenly Wanted to Be More Interoperable - Comes v. MS Exh. 7068 Tells Us

http://www.groklaw.net

Guess why Microsoft suddenly decided it wanted to be more interoperable? It's so it can get customers to quit using Linux and switch to Windows & .NET.

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FSF goes global with anti-Windows campaign

http://www.pcauthority.com.au

The organisation said today it would issue press releases about the Windows 7 Sins campaign in eight languages, with several more on the way.

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Howto: Linux and Windows virtualization with KVM and Qemu

http://tuxradar.com

We're going to deliberately sidestep the jargon and the hype to take a practical look at the virtualisation technologies in Ubuntu, in particular KVM and Qemu and the related userspace tools that create and manage virtual machines. Although the discussion centres on Ubuntu, the technology is applicable to all Linux distros.

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Windows Update Does Not Like GRUB

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If you are running a multi-boot configuration with Windows and Linux, and using GRUB as the bootloader, you may be headed for trouble.

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How to Install any Linux on a USB

http://www.hungry-hackers.com

There are so many reasons why having a Linux distribution on a USB drive can come in handy. But getting Linux onto a USB drive can’t be simple. Right? Wrong. There is a tool, UNetbootin, that makes installing Linux on a USB drive simple.

UNetbootin can be used on either Linux or Windows. In this article, we’ll be illustrating it for Both.

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Bordeaux 2.0.0 for Solaris and OpenSolaris Released

http://www.wine-reviews.net

The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.0 for Solaris today. Bordeaux 2.0.0 marks major progress over older releases. With version 2.0.0 and onward we bundle our own Wine build and many tools and libraries that Wine depends upon. With this release we bundle Wine 1.1.36, Cabextract, Mozilla Gecko, Unzip, Wget and other support libraries and tools.

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ReactOS Arwinss to use more Wine code

http://www.wine-reviews.net

ReactOS was meant as a free and open-source operating system. But after 11 years in development it never reached a satisfactory level of usability. Due to lack of developers, reimplementing the Win32 subsystem proved to be complex. Given the deficiencies in ReactOS developer Aleksey Bragin decided to rewrite it from scratch using Wine source code.

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From Linux VM on Windows to Windows VM on Linux

http://desiibond.blogspot.com

For more than a decade, I had been a big fan of Microsoft Software. Once in a while, when a new distro Linux comes out, I used to try it for a day or two and forget about it. But for the past month, there is a linux distro running on my home PC and there is no windows on the same.

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Things to know before Replacing Windows by Linux

http://www.linuxadda.com

All those who have been using Windows since Long and want to try linux then you should prepare yourself before facing Linux. Here I have tried to list out some similaritites as well Differences among the two operating systems which will be helpful to when you start with Linux.

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