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Archos Releases Dev Edition Firmware For Tablets

30.11.2009 04:46    linux.slashdot.org
Charbax writes "While Archos' current 'Archos 5 Internet Tablet with Android' is a 4.8" WVGA tablet that runs Android 1.5 (and perhaps 2.0 soon with the full Google Marketplace Experience), users of last year's 4.8" and 7" Archos Linux tablets
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Archos Releases Dev Edition Firmware For Tablets



Google Eliminates Gizmo5 Client For Linux

30.11.2009 04:46    linux.slashdot.org
cuttheredwire writes "Evidence on the Gizmo5 forum (login required) confirms that since Google's takeover of Gizmo5, only the Windows, Mac, and iPhone clients are available for download from the official Web page. The Linux download link no longer works. This
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Google Eliminates Gizmo5 Client For Linux

Ubuntu Reaching Out To 16,000 Anime Lovers

26.11.2009 02:42    linux.slashdot.org
shadowmage13 writes "After months of planning, I am happy to announce finally that the Ubuntu Massachusetts Local Community Team will be preparing a booth at the upcoming 2010 Anime Boston convention. We need support from the community to secure a
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Ubuntu Reaching Out To 16,000 Anime Lovers

US Air Force Buying Another 2,200 PS3s

26.11.2009 02:41    linux.slashdot.org
bleedingpegasus sends word that the US Air Force will be grabbing up 2,200 new PlayStation 3 consoles for research into supercomputing. They already have a cluster made from 336 of the old-style (non-Slim) consoles, which they've used for a variety
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US Air Force Buying Another 2,200 PS3s

Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize?

21.11.2009 03:35    linux.slashdot.org
An anonymous reader writes "I'm as much of a Linux fanboy as anyone else, but I've never thought of anything in computing as being worth a Nobel Peace Prize. Apparently, there are those who take global collaboration seriously, though..." The
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Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize?


Fedora 12 Package Installation Policy Tightened

21.11.2009 03:35    linux.slashdot.org
AdamWill writes "After the controversy over Fedora 12's controversial package installation authentication policy, including our discussion this week, the package maintainers have agreed that the controversial policy will be tightened to require root authentication for trusted package installation. Please see
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GIMP Dropped From Ubuntu 10.04

21.11.2009 03:35    linux.slashdot.org
kai_hiwatari writes "It looks like the Ubuntu developers consider GIMP to be too powerful for a normal desktop user. They are removing it from the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04. Among the reasons cited are that the UI is too complex, it
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GIMP Dropped From Ubuntu 10.04

US Government Using PS3s To Break Encryption

19.11.2009 11:30    linux.slashdot.org
Entropy98 writes "It seems that the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Cyber Crimes Center, known as C3, has replaced its '$8,000 Tableau/Dell server combination' with more efficient and much cheaper $300 PS3s. Each PS3 is capable of 4 million passwords
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Fedora 12 Lets Users Install Signed Packages, Sans Root Privileges

19.11.2009 11:30    linux.slashdot.org
eqisow writes "The new default policy for Fedora 12 allows local, unprivileged users to install signed packages without root access. This change apparently went mostly unnoticed until after the Fedora 12 GA release, at which point it sparked a mailing
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Fedora 12 Lets Users Install Signed Packages, Sans Root Privileges

Fedora 12 Released

18.11.2009 10:01    linux.slashdot.org
AdamWill writes "The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora 12 today. With all the latest open source software and major improvements to graphics support, networking, virtualization and more, Fedora 12 is one of the most exciting
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Fedora 12 Released

Free Software For All Russian Schools In Jeopardy

17.11.2009 05:01    linux.slashdot.org
Glyn Moody writes "Last year, we discussed here a Russian plan to install free software in all its schools. Seems things aren't going so well. Funds for the project have been cut back, some of the free software discs already
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Free Software For All Russian Schools In Jeopardy

The "Hail Mary Cloud" Is Growing

17.11.2009 05:00    linux.slashdot.org
badger.foo writes "The Australian rickrolling of jailbroken iPhones only goes to prove that bad passwords are bad for you, Peter Hansteen points out, as he reports on the further exploits of the password-guessing Hail Mary Cloud (which we've discussed in
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The "Hail Mary Cloud" Is Growing

GNOME 3 Delayed Until September 2010

15.11.2009 04:59    linux.slashdot.org
supersloshy writes "Contrary to popular opinion, GNOME 3 will not be released in March next year. It has been delayed until September 2010, six months later. According to the news message, this is because 'our community wants GNOME 3.0 to
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GNOME 3 Delayed Until September 2010

Microsoft Buys Teamprise, Will Ship Linux Tools

13.11.2009 22:44    linux.slashdot.org
spongman writes "Microsoft's Senior Vice President, Developer Division, S. Somasegar has announced that Microsoft has acquired Teamprise from Sourcegear, LLC, and will be shipping it as part of the upcoming Visual Studio 2010 release. Teamprise is an Eclipse plugin (and
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Microsoft Buys Teamprise, Will Ship Linux Tools

openSUSE 11.2 Released

12.11.2009 20:37    linux.slashdot.org
openSUSE 11.2 will come with the latest version 2.6.31 of the Linux kernel, the beating heart of every openSUSE system. The default file system of openSUSE will be switched to the new Ext4 as well. Of course, openSUSE will continue
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openSUSE 11.2 Released

Microsoft Patents Sudo's Behavior

12.11.2009 20:37    linux.slashdot.org
Foofoobar writes "Just when you thought all was safe on the crazy patent front, Microsoft has come out of the obvious patent closet to file patent number 7617530, which basically duplicates the functionality of 'sudo' which is found in all
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Scientists Unveil Lightweight Rootkit Protection

11.11.2009 17:32    linux.slashdot.org
DangerFace writes 'Scientists are set to unveil a lightweight system they say makes an operating system significantly more resistant to rootkits without degrading its performance. The hypervisor-based system is dubbed HookSafe, and it works by relocating kernel hooks in a
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Scientists Unveil Lightweight Rootkit Protection

SFLC Finds One New GPL Violation Per Day

11.11.2009 17:32    linux.slashdot.org
eldavojohn writes "In July, the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) leveled the finger at Microsoft for a GPL violation but how often does this actually happen? Sunday, Brad M. Kuhn (tech director at the SFLC) stated in his blog that
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SFLC Finds One New GPL Violation Per Day

MythTV 0.22 Released

10.11.2009 14:36    linux.slashdot.org
uyguremre writes "After a little over a year and a half in the making, the developers of MythTV announced that MythTV 0.22 is now available. There have been a lot of large changes since 0.21, including a port from Qt
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Tired of Flash? HTML5 Viewer For YouTube

10.11.2009 14:35    linux.slashdot.org
An anonymous reader writes "Instead of spending the next 10 years trying to find a Flash implementation for Linux or OS X that doesn't drain CPU cycles like there's no tomorrow, NeoSmart Technologies has made an HTML5 viewer for YouTube
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Tired of Flash? HTML5 Viewer For YouTube

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