The SproutCore developers have released version 1.0 of their JavaScript-based, client-side, web application framework. The 1.0 release took around 18 months of work and involved the rewriting of over 20,000 lines of code and the addition of 6,000 unit tests
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The New Ubuntu Linux's five best features
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The forthcoming version of Ubuntu Linux, Lucid Lynx, has just gone beta and it's going to be the most important Ubuntu release in years.
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Would Linux Be Better Off Without the FSF?
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Suppose the FOSS community wanted to hire a group to serve as its public relations department -- would the Free Software Foundation be right for the job?
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German goverment to users: Stop using Firefox!
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The German government has issued a stern warning to telling them not to use Firefox because the browser contains a critical security vulnerability.
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Microsoft and Apple Still Intend to Use Software Patents Against GNU/Linux
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The latest developments which involve Apple's and Microsof's agenda, with patents that help marginalise Free software
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Open source and the Morevna project
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Konstatin Dmitriev's Morevna Project is to 2-D animation what the Blender Foundation's Open movie projects have been for 3-D. The goal is to produce a production-quality, full-length animated feature, using only open source software, and license the source content and final product under free, re-use-friendly terms.
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OGMRip - Ripping and encoding DVDs into AVI/OGM files
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OGMRip is an application and a set of libraries for ripping and encoding DVD into AVI, OGM, MP4, or Matroska files using a wide variety of codecs. It relies on mplayer, mencoder, ogmtools, mkvtoolnix, mp4box, oggenc, lame, and faac to perform its tasks.
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rPath Joins Linux Foundation
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The Linux Foundation today announced that rPath is its newest member.
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Freenode Fails.
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Those who use freenode regularly must've been around when for 2-3 days, we all faced massive netsplits due to javascript spam. Funnily enough, the solution for that problem was bloody easy. Dudes. WTF?
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Free software's second era: The rise and fall of MySQL
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If the first era of free software was about the creation of the fully-rounded GNU/Linux operating system, the second saw a generation of key enterprise applications being written to run on that foundation. Things got moving with the emergence and rapid adoption of the LAMP stack – a term coined in 1998 - a key part of which was (obviously) MySQL (the “M”).
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RIP Palm: it's over, and here's why
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So what happened? Wasn't webOS the greatest thing since the original iPhone OS? Wasn't the Pre a great phone? How did Palm blow it so badly?
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Tiny Core Linux 2.10 released
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Tiny Core lead developer Robert Shingledecker has announced the availability of version 2.10 of Tiny Core Linux. The latest update features several graphical changes and updates to Appbrowser
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VMware’s Parent Company Promotes Microsoft Exchange, So What About Zimbra?
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Tough situation for F/OSS companies that were devoured by the ex-Sofies who run VMware after EMC had intervened
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Install Winamp Clone , XMMS player in Ubuntu 9.10
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XMMS is a player which the new generation of Linux users have seem to forgotten. For the Linux users who are just adjusting with the new KDE/Gnome interface and still are not ready to leave their favourite player WINAMP, this is for you. XMMS is a very light song player which will open up in your first click and thus unlike the heavy players like Songbird
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Security hole fixed in Firefox 3.6
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Version 3.6.2, which so far is only available as a beta, fixes a critical security hole in Firefox 3.6 for Windows that was discovered some time ago
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