Microsoft wants software patents in its protocols to be acknowledged in Europe and enforced (possibly by remote intervention)
Read more »How Microsoft’s OSS Insiders Can Plant the Seeds of Intellectual Monopolies
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Using ZFS though FUSE
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ZFS is an advanced filesystem created by Sun Microsystems but not supported in the Linux kernel. The ZFS_on_FUSE project allows you to use ZFS through the Linux kernel as a FUSE filesystem. This means that a ZFS filesystem will be accessible just like any other filesystem the Linux kernel lets you use.
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OOXML Cover-up, ODF Adoption is Up
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Microsoft downplays the severity of its abuses while ODF gains further traction
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Simplifying infrared device configuration
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Building a MythTV digital video recorder (DVR) is a series of small battles -- configuring digital sound, aligning your video sources and channel guide data, getting XvMC running, and so on. Any tool that simplifies one of those battles is welcome, and GNOME LIRC Properties promises to be just such a tool.
Read more »Iona slaps Apache on the back
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Dublin, Ireland-headquartered Iona says it “commends” the Apache CXF community on the graduation of CXF from incubator to full project status at the Apache Software Foundation…
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Microsoft’s Hijack of Xen Implicitly Confirmed by Red Hat
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Red Hat too seems to have realised that Citrix (with XenSource) is just a vassal of Microsoft
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Microsoft as Your Knowledge Base of GPLv3, Master of Document Licences?
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Another look at former Microsoft employees and their negative influence inside FOSS
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Kudos to openSUSE 11.0
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openSUSE 11.0 was one of the most anticipated Linux distro releases of 2008. Despite a few bugs in the final code, which was released yesterday, it was worth the wait. The openSUSE version of KDE 4 alone is worth the download, and the improvements to the software manager make customizing a pleasure.
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Free/Open-source File Managers
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Here I made a list of some of the best free and open source file managers as a guide to those who are looking for one that will suit their needs.
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9 tweaks for Firefox 3’s location bar
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While Firefox 3’s location bar is perhaps my personal favorite new feature and the one I missed the most when I have to use Firefox 2 for some testing, there are a lot of people who find it weird, obtrusive and don’t like it including bookmarks and history among its results.
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Speak out against ACTA
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Although the proposed treaty’s title [Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement] might suggest that the agreement deals only with counterfeit physical goods (such as medicines), what little information has been made available publicly by negotiating governments about the content of the treaty makes it clear that it will have a far broader scope, and in particular, will deal with new tools targeting
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Firefox 3 mentioned on the Colbert Report
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The official release of Firefox 3 has received widespread attention from the press and has gained a few unexpected allies, including television show host Stephen Colbert. In an episode of the Colbert Report that was aired on the same day as the Firefox 3 release, Colbert interviewed open Internet advocate Jonathan Zittrain, who encouraged Colbert to try Firefox 3.
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If Business Succeeds with GNU/Linux, Why Not OLPC?
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The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project — which aimed to give underprivileged children around the world a better chance at modern education — may have been stifled though a combination of disinformation and other coordinated efforts by hardware and software monopolies that wanted to stop it.
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GNOME 2.23.4 Released!
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You all know what you have to do now. Go download it. Go compile it. Go test it. And go hack on it, document it, translate it, fix it.
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Enterprise Unix Roundup: Making Good on a Promise
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One of the unsung heroes of the Unix realm is — I kid you not — IBM. Stop laughing, I'm serious.
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