It's been seven weeks since the obfuscated xf86-video-nv driver was last updated, so this afternoon NVIDIA's Aaron Plattner decided to release version 2.1.10, which will be in time for X.Org 7.4.
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Xandros Speaks Out: Inside the Linspire Deal
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Early reports yesterday alleged that Xandros had secretly purchased Linspire, an accusation later confirmed by Xandros executives. We now have fresh details on the deal, straight from the mouth of Andreas Typaldos, CEO of Xandros and freshly installed President of Linspire.
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Kernel space: The Tru64 Advanced Filesystem
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HP has released Digital's Tru64 Advanced Filesystem under the GPL, free for Linux developers to borrow. And developers can learn a lot from this museum piece.
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Open source community pushes Canberra on school computer fund
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Australia's open source community leaders have written an open letter to Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard calling for consideration of free and open source software in the implementation of the Digital Education Revolution for the National Secondary School Computer Fund.
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Linux experiences 'prolific' growth, says Linux Foundation's Zemlin
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The Linux Foundation is now a year old. Formed by the 2007 merger of Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group and home to Linux's creator Linus Torvalds, the Foundation promotes the use of Linux through support for kernel development; the development of common definitions, standards and best practices; and resolution of legal issues.
Read more »Linspire + Xandros = Anything of value?
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In math, two negatives make a positive. In the fledgling world of desktop Linux, unfortunately, this is unlikely to be the case.
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What’s Wrong with Software Patents?
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Patents on computer programs, financial processes and business methods have been controversial at least since the 1960s. Surveys regularly find that computer programmers are opposed to patents on software by a wide margin. In what other field is the class of inventors so opposed to patents?
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ISO approves PDF as an international standard
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The International Organization for Standardization has approved Adobe Systems' widely used PDF (Portable Document Format) as an international standard, and is now in charge of any changes made to the specification.
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It Feels Like Freedom is Coming
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With the historic events of early June, 2008, here in the United States, it feels as if freedom is coming. When I woke up and saw the newspaper headline on Wednesday, June 4, 2008, my initial reaction was: "This is a fine day for freedom." And so I composed this song whose opening lyric is: "Freedom comes on one fine day."
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Is Open source a synonym for Free software ?
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The market for open source and free software is surging high with its appreciation in mainstream segment also... But still the concept of free software and open source software is not clear with many of us.
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Mandriva Linux - Wonderful and Maddening
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Well, since I've gone through both Ubuntu and openSuSE Linux, and my curiosity about Unix systems in general has really started to kick in, I've decided to go through a few more variants to see what they are like...The next candidate is Mandriva Linux, currently on what they term their "Spring 2008" distribution.
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Hands on: 12 quick hacks for Firefox 3
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Think you've seen all there is to see of Firefox 3's new features? Wait, there's more -- check out these cool and useful hacks.
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Command line, are you afraid ?
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In this small article I will try to show you all the basics on the command line, but first things first, let’s start with the directory layout
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Industry's Leading GNU-based Toolchain Available Now, Optimized for MIPS(R) Cores
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MIPS Technologies, Inc. , a leading provider of industry-standard architectures, processors and analog IP for digital consumer, home networking, wireless, communications and business applications, today announced that a MIPS(R)-optimized release of Sourcery G++, a complete C/C++ development environment based on the GNU Toolchain and the Eclipse(TM) IDE, is available now from CodeSourcery, Inc.
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GPLv3 One Year Anniversary Edition 06/29/08
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The GPL v3 Watch List is intended to give you a snapshot of the GPLv3/LGPLv3/AGPLv3 adoption for the past year.
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