The BBC - now filled with former Microsoft executives - is still blocking Free software users from content that they have already paid for and at the time time it is promoting lagging products from Microsoft
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Spat over PHP Suhosin patch
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Suhosin, a security extension for PHP, can occasionally cause crashes. A patch released by the Debian maintainers resolves this problem, but does so at the expense of security. This has led to heated behind-the-scenes discussions.
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Proprietary Software Encourages Breaking of the Law
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How non-Free software can criminalise a lot of people, whereas Free software begs to be used by people and even spread further
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CeBIT 2010
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The H will be attending this year's CeBIT information technology trade show in Hannover, Germany which runs from the 2nd to the 6th of March. This year's theme is "Connected Worlds" and more than 4,150 companies from 68 countries are expected to exhibit their latest products, concepts and technologies
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RHCS: an Introduction
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The Red Hat Cluster Suite is a framework to bind two or more machines together to jointly handle one task. The following article gives an introduction to RHCS in terms of service failover.
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Junior High School students build their own Ubuntu computers
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A course set up by a Junior High public school in Monza, Northern Italy, involves students who find difficult to focus on theoretical, talk-only lessons by teaching them how to build their own computer and install Ubuntu on it. A few participants went back to Windows after the course, but the majority liked Ubuntu so much to stick to it.
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Multimedia Codecs and Moral Quandaries
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I wrote recently about legal concerns involving multimedia patents on Ubuntu, and how to obtain licensed codecs without breaking the law. But I didn't give much thought to the philosophical side of the issue. That's an important topic in the Ubuntu community, so I'm catching up with it here.
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Vulnerabilities in sudo closed
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Flawed sudo code allows users with limited privileges to obtain root privileges
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Gartner Still Thinks People Only Ever Buy GNU/Linux
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Gartner measures "market share" in a way that favours proprietary software, by definition
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Security update for TYPO3 released
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In certain circumstances, previous TYPO3 versions are vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks, disclosing user information and granting attackers unauthenticated access
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Mozilla's Ubiquity on the back burner
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Mozilla's experiment in language driven browsing, Ubiquity, has been placed on the back burner, while inspiring a simpler alternative, Taskfox
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Mandriva joins ARM Connected Community
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Linux distributor Mandriva has announced that it has joined the ARM Connected Community, a partner network that now consists of more than 675 companies offering solutions based on ARM processor technology
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Fedora 13 Alpha delayed
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The Fedora Project developers have announced that the first alpha for version 13 of their open source Fedora operating system, code named "Goddard", has been delayed by one week
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Eclipse 3.5.2 available to download
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identi.ca creator launches enterprise micro-blogging support
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StatusNet Inc, makers of the StatusNet Open Source microblogging server, launched the StatusNet Enterprise Network (SEN), their support program specifically tailored for corporate clients. Initial customers include Motorola Corporation and Canonical Ltd.
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