Three Triangle-based companies – Quintiles Transnational, SAS Institute and Red Hat – have won a place on Computerworld magazine’s latest annual list of the “‘100 Best Places to Work in IT.”
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New Zealand push for unlimited software patenting
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Dear Free Software Supporters,
The New Zealand government has proposed allowing unlimited software
patenting. They are accepting comments until July 2nd, but
participation from the people who will be harmed seems very low.
The details of how to participate can be found on swpat.org:
http://en.swpat.org/wiki/New_Zealand
World's Biggest Open-Source Event Announced
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Open World Forum and Open Source Think Tank to bring together key players from the world of Free, Libre and Open Source Software in Paris, September 28th-2nd October 2009.
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Platformer roundup
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Free Gamer gives a round up of the newest free platform games.
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One Hundred Papercuts: The Most Exciting Thing Since the Last Thing Canonical Did
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Remember when Mark Shuttleworth announced Canonical was putting together a usability and design team? That team has announced their first major project, called One Hundred Papercuts. The idea, as described by David Siegel (member of the team and Gnome Do developer) is to select one hundred easily fixable bugs that are day to day minor annoyances to the user and fix them for the next release.
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Install more then 100 games from repository with Djl
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Djl is an open-source game manager written in Python 2.5 for the GNU/Linux Operating Systems. Djl makes it possible (via a repository) to download, install and remove a reasonable number of games,Repository contain actually more than 105 famouse games
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Howto Increase Desktop Functionality With Compiz Fusion
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Video tutorial on enabling some of the Compiz effects than can improve productivity
Read more »Microsoft's Windows 7 price gamble opens door to Linux
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Shuttleworth once told The Reg he can't wait for Windows 7 on this sub-laptop class of machines because it'll finally give Ubuntu the opportunity to compete fairly against Microsoft's operating system in this emerging market.
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Using sidux with Midori
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Midori seems like it has the potential to evolve into one really fast, handy browser, especially if you want to create a light, fast desktop or window manager based system.
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IBM’s Cloud Will Feature Ubuntu
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When IBM announces its Smart Business cloud computing strategy on June 16, Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution will be along for the ride. The news represents IBM's latest vote of confidence in Ubuntu, amid growing evidence that Canonical and Ubuntu are finding a home in cloud computing. Here's the scoop.
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Bordeaux for Mac OS X 1.8 (alpha) released
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Only Office 2007 Applications (Word, Excel, Powerpnt) and Internet Explorer 6.0 are supported. The next Beta build will include support for Office 2003 applications and more! The download is 66.11MB and avaliable now...
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Chinese Green Dam pilfers open source too
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After claims that China's "Green Dam" filtering app includes code pirated from an American software maker, it should come as no surprise that the People's Republic censorshipware is also using open-source code without displaying the proper license.
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Noteworthy Mandriva Cooker changes
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It’s a long time ago I posted something on my blog, so this is a good moment to break the silence with a Cooker update...
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Five big issues with ARM and Android netbooks
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The tech industry is always looking for the next big thing: Bing is gaining on Google, the Palm Pre will dethrone the iPhone, and so on. One of the latest “next big things” is the duo of ARM and Android which, if you buy the hype, will wrest the PC industry from Wintel’s grip.
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Xorg, a stumbling stone?
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Xorg is a stumbling stone in the advancement of desktop linux. Xorg is bigger, slower and more complicated than the graphical servers of other operating systems.
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