NVIDIA hasn't been updating their binary Linux drivers as frequently as they were earlier this year...
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Windows drivers for KVM
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Red Hat has released paravirtualised network and storage drivers for running Windows guest systems under the KVM
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Facebook hires an open source advocate
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The news started to emerge in various Twitter feeds and personal blog posts Monday: David Recordon, a Six Apart developer and prominent open standards advocate, has left the blog software company to take a job at Facebook.
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Songbird the Firefox of media players
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Songbird is a free and open source software audio player and web browser founded by Rob Lord and developed by Pioneers of the Inevitable , with a stated mission "to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyze and champion a diverse, open Media Web."
Read more »Skype 2.1 Beta For Linux Has Been Released
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Skype 2.1 Beta vor Linux has been released yesterday, bringing a lot of new features, including:
* High Quality Video support.
* Skype's SILK audio codec.
* PulseAudio support.
* SMS sending support.
* Chat messages editing/removing support.
* Contact groups support.
* Typing notification in chat.
Mini-notebook sales jump 398%, desktops shunned: Report
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Australian sales of mini-notebooks jumped a massive 398.4% in the second quarter of this year, compared with 12 months ago. It's clear evidence that consumers prefer mobile PCs, even when they come with a higher price tag than a desktop equivalent.
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SONY goes "Open Kimono" with sexy new e-Readers
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Indeed, the new SONY readers are slick devices that feel like premium products when you use them, much like the feeling of when you handle something like, well, an Apple product, for lack of a better comparison.
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Great Distros You May Not Have Tried
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There are some great distributions in our wonderfully cluttered Linux distro landscape. Some are very similar to others, and some are wildly different from the rest. The one thing to remember is that while these distributions may be amazingly well thought out, and amazingly well put together their obscurity will present two problems.
Read more »Java-based persistence and the Google App Engine datastore
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Data persistence is a cornerstone of scalable application delivery in enterprise environments. In this final article of his series introducing Google App Engine for Java™, Rick Hightower takes on the challenges of App Engine's current Java-based persistence framework.
Read more »Open Source Society mounts public sector desktop raid
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The New Zealand Open Source Society is launching a project to demonstrate the viability of free open source software on public sector desktops.
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Installing Adobe CS4 in Wine
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How to install Adobe CS4 in Wine and that’s what I’ll be showing you how to do today. But before we get into it, you must know that Wine is a very precise machine, different versions and different software can give you different results! But there is hope, that hope lies in the open hands of the WineHQ developers and community.
Read more »Red Hat plugs NULL Linux hole - a week late?
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On August 14th, I wrote about a Linux NULL security flaw affecting all Linux vendors. Linux founder Linus Torvalds had a patch for the kernel the same day, but how long did it take the big enterprise vendors?
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AerieBSD — a fork of OpenBSD (nothing to see yet ...)
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I plucked this from the noise on Twitter: A new project dubbed AerieBSD is starting, some say as a fork of OpenBSD (and from the looks of the planned architectures, I'd say they're right).
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Upgrading to XBMC (XBox Media Center) 9.04.1 in Ubuntu is Easy
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XBMC is an award winning free and open source software for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and XBox. Not so familiar with this popular application, here is a quick preview on what all XBMC Media Center can do for you.
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Nokia announces 10-inch netbook
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About two months ago, Intel and Nokia announced a strategic partnership without mentioning any concrete products. The first product announcement followed today: With the Booklet 3G, Nokia will offer a 10-inch netbook (and its first netbook altogether) – equipped, of course, with an Atom processor.
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