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Category: Linux Distributions Size: 1.34 GB Status: 2 seeders and 12 leechers Added: 2007-09-29 17:46:53

Source: absolute

Paul Sherman has announced the availability of an updated release of Absolute Linux, a light-weight modification of Slackware featuring the IceWM window manager. From the changelog: "Midnight Commander, Dillo and Ggradebook added to default packages; XDM updated for nice graphical login, when desired; IceWM update to include menu .

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ZDNet: "The open source discount, the lower price one would pay to acquire an open source company because its code is not proprietary, seems to be going away "

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The Open Road: "The truth about community is somewhat more complicated, Stegner and Onetti write, requiring traditional marketing segmentation to effectively feed and harvest from one's communities "

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Redmond Developer News: "Here's your chance to have a direct voice in the argument "

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Geekend: "If you aren't up for conjuring together your own Dejarik board and pieces, you can download an open-source Dejarik computer game "

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Linux.com takes a he-said/she-said approach to the question: should there be customized Linux distribution for women?

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the escapist: "The latest and greatest version of everyone's favorite open-source penguin racing game has been released "

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Minimalist SysAdmin: "Nothing kinky here. Amanda is not a girl, but rather a really nice piece of software--The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver "

Source: Slashdot: Linux

biscuitfever11 writes "ZDNet has up a great interview with Michael Meeks, the distinguished Novell engineer, who's currently deeply involved in open document format and OpenOffice.org. In the interview, Meeks takes Microsoft to task on its alternative format OOXML and argues that Microsoft should adopt ODF — but says that realistically they never will. He also mentions his favorite example to explain the benefits of open source software to a nontechnical person: the flexibility of open source would have allowed us to free ourselves from Clippy, the world's most despised paperclip, by changing a single line of code."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader sends us to a blog posting arguing that, as hardware prices fall below $250 for laptops and desktops, Linux should gain as the Microsoft tax stands out in sharper relief. "In previous years, if you were spending US$1500 and up on a laptop, the Microsoft tax you were paying didn't seem like such a big deal. XP or Vista was pre-installed, fairly convenient But as the price of hardware for small basic machines comes down, (think under US$250 by the end of next year), then software price starts to become a big issue. Why would you pay the price of your new laptop again just for the software, when all you want to do is really basic things?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.