"In November, Nintendo released the DSi console in Japan. Next month, the rest of the world will be hit by this console. Similar to the previous Nintendo DS and DS Lite consoles, the DSi has two screens and the ability to access WiFi networks.
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Nintendo DSi: Defective by DESiGN.
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Latinamerican Free Software Installation Festival'2K9
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I have registered myself as an installer at the Latinamerican Free Software Installation Festival, a.k.a FLISoL (first time to work on a FLISoL ever, by the way). This year this event is going to take place on April 25th on many locations all around latinamerica.
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Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring RC2 is available for tests
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The RC2 release of Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring (code name Estephe) is now available. This RC2 version provides some updates on major desktop components of the distribution, including KDE 4.2.2, GNOME 2.26,X.org server 1.6, kernel 2.6.29.
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Open Source Casino To Fund Open Source Development
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Linux Fund is pleased to announce Linux Fund Casino, an open source online gaming site that will launch immediately upon the impending repeal of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), the proceeds of which will benefit Linux Fund's mission to support open source software.
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What happens at a hackathon?
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Last weekend, the Birmingham Perl Mongers group hosted and was main financial sponsor of the 2009 QA Hackathon, which was held at the Birmingham City Inn. Key developers in the Perl Quality Assurance world flew in from as far afield as Sydney, Portland, OR and Birmingham itself to spend 3 days hacking on all aspects of the Perl and CPAN toolchain.
Read more »KDE Strides Ahead While Gnome Stagnates
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A few weeks ago, Jack Wallen published a comparison of recent GNOME and KDE releases in which he claims that the desktop flame wars in GNU/Linux were about to reignite, and that KDE would emerge as the loser.
Read more »Estimating the Total Development Cost of a Linux Distribution
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The Linux operating system is the most successful open source project in history, but just how much is the software in a Linux distribution “worth”? We estimate that it would take approximately $10.8 billion to build the Fedora 9 distribution in today’s dollars, with today’s software development costs. Additionally, it would take $1.4 billion to develop the Linux kernel alone.
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OSNews Podcast #1
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Completely ad-hoc and unscripted, OSnews editors Thom Holwerda and Kroc Camen discuss gripes, pet hates and what's currently on the home page. This is the first time we've ever spoken to one another! "Read more" for the link to the .mp3 file, and notes.
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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #136
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #136 for the week March 29th - April 4th, 2009.
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The Future is Here: OpenGoo
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Sometimes, it seems, the best and most promising pieces of Free Software can be found in the most unlikely places. OpenGoo is no exception. For those unfamiliar with OpenGoo, it is a GPL’ed web office and productivity suite, similar to Google Docs.
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The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates a Decade of Open Source Leadership
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The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) - developers, stewards, and incubators of leading community-driven Open Source projects - announced its tenth anniversary at ApacheCon, its official user conference, trainings, and expo.
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Bad News: Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Declares Wikia Search Dead
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« While I personally believe in the opportunity for free software to make serious inroads into the search space, our project, Wikia Search, has not been enjoying the kind of success that we had hoped »
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EFF-Austin presents Richard Stallman
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"EFF-Austin invites you to a talk by the Free Software Foundation Activist - Richard Stallman on 23rd April 2009 [...] The GNU General Public License (GPL) was the outcome of the need for a principal right to free software. What does the freedom mean, what are the foundations of the GNU GPL philosophy and how has it evolved since Richard Stallman wrote the first GNU GPL in 1989?
Read more »Ubuntu Linux Gnome Desktop Gripes
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I've been using Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex as my desktop platform of choice for a few months now. As part of that changeover, I also switched to Gnome. I have to say, after my initial "ohh, look, this just works" with Gnome, the shine has certainly come off.
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10 open source books worth downloading
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Free and open source software is all about sharing so, prompted by a reader who emailed me last week to ask about books on Linux, I spent some time over the weekend doing research. The result is a short list of books that users - from newbies to gurus - can download and read at their leisure.
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