The big news in tech today is of course Intel buying McAfee, in a deal valued at about 7.7 billion dollars. I think this deal is all about mobile devices and mobile computing security. I think Intel has made a huge misstep here and the reason maybe they don't understand open source software.
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Supporting Multi-Touch In Non-Multi-Touch Linux Apps
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After the release of the Ubuntu Multi-Touch stack called UTouch and the X.Org Gesture Extension, the rising question would be the support of everyday applications, as only a few applications in Ubuntu 10.10 will properly support UTouch. Standard applications which are non-multi-touch-aware only recognize events which come from the keyboard and the mouse like key-presses and mouse clicks.
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Debian: Yesterday's Distribution?
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The latest Debian Project News recently announced a code freeze in preparation for a new release by the end of 2010. It's a sign of the times that the news went mostly unreported. Which makes me wonder: What is Debian's role today?
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Banshee sheds HAL
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Yesterday it finally landed. Gabriel Burt, one of Banshee’s maintainers, merged in the GIO/udev hardware backend that Alan McGovern and I have been working on. This is awesome for everyone. Here’s why it’s awesome for you.
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Free Interaction Design for your FLOSS Project
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Matt Jadud made a blog post yesterday offering up free interaction design for free & open source projects. This is a great opportunity.
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How to install Mint Style Gnome Menu in Ubuntu
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For those of you who ave ever tried Linux Mint, a distro which is run off the back of Ubuntu, you will have noticed that it has it's own special and somewhat unique gnome menu to select your applications to run, folders to browse etc
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Google opens Chrome Web Store to devs
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Google is now allowing developers to upload applications to the as-yet-un-open Chrome Web Store, an online gallery of web applications and web extensions for the company's Chrome browser and its upcoming Chrome OS operating system.
Read more »Nexenta Core 3.0 released, next version will be Illumos based
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The Nexenta project has shipped Nexenta Core Platform 3.0, which will be the last version based directly on the OpenSolaris code base as future versions will switch to the Illumos project's OpenSolaris fork
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PlayOnLinux 3.8 is out! Major new features : Record games, wine import, Cedega import, Offline wine
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PlayOnLInux 3.8 is now available ! This new version comes with a lot of new features and fixed many bugs, some plugins are now integrated in this software, adding a lot of features like for example: Capture - a new feature that allow you to record your games while playing, Other new features are wine import, Cedega import, Offline wine and more.
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Which Licence is Best for the Future?
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Recent discussions around the so-called “Open Core” model for open source have led to an entirely fresh thought: that we are about to enter a new and perhaps golden age in open source business. But which licence will ensure that golden age?
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Sexy Linux Girl
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Our sexy linux girl likes Ubuntu. She has been using it for a couple of years now and is currently dual booting on a new laptop.
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Google adds Linux support to voice and video chat
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Google has announced that it has now officially added Linux support to its voice and video chat service, which was originally introduced in November of 2008
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Support of Red Hat Enterprise Linux extended by 3 years
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As part of its "Extended Life Cycle Support" package, Red Hat will update selected components of RHEL for a further 3 years
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Clojure 1.2: A combination of scripts and functional programming
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Version 1.2 of Clojure, a Lisp dialect which was developed for the Java Virtual Machine that aims at combining the advantages of script languages with those of multi-threaded programs, has now been released
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Where to Download Free VirtualBox Images (.vdi) and How to Use it
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If you are always in the mood to try other Linux distros or operating systems, you may find this a time-consuming process.So what should you do to save some of your precious time? You may download a VirtualBox disk image (.vdi) file of your preferred operating system. Now, where can you download free VirtualBox images?
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