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Wine-Release: "Wine 1.2 release plans were sent to the wine-devel mailing list from Alexandre Julliard the Wine project leader. Here is the release plans and Alexandres email to wine-devel."

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PaoloCampitelli: "This is my repository list for Debian Testing (Squeeze) and Debian Unstable (Sid)."

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Wired: "We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it," said Apple CEO Steve Jobs. "We've decided to do something about it. We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours"

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Tech Source: "13 Open Source Hardware Companies Making $1 Million or More --
Selling products whose design anyone can access, edit, or use on their own is pretty crazy. It's also good business."

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Packt: "Simple Invoices provides freelancers, non-profits, and small business a user-friendly way to bill customers and track invoices. It's an application for people who don't want the hassle of larger accounting programs, such as GNU Cash, Quicken, or Quickbooks."

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LWN.net: "But the past twelve months have been divisive for the Koha community, due to a familiar source of argument in open source: tensions between community developers, end users, and for-profit businesses seeking to monetize the code base. As usual, copyrights and trademarks are the legal sticks, but the real issue is sharing code contributions."

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Computerworld UK: "Judging by the latest leak [.pdf] obtained by the French site PC Inpact, those forces have prevailed: what seems to be the final version of the Digital Agenda for Europe is an utter travesty of the original intent."

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Tech Source: "It is time once again for our $100.00 (USD) Coolest Linux Workspace Contest. Today's entry comes from Brian, a Federal employee with the United States Army, and working in a network evaluation lab."

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LWN.net: " the Humble Indie Bundle, a collection of cross-platform games being sold using a novel method, generated over $1 million in a week's time, with roughly a quarter of it coming from Linux users. It has long been said that there is no market for Linux commercial games, but these two events may shine a light on different business models that just might be successful."

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Distrowatch: "Stefano Fratepietro has announced the release of DEFT Linux 5.1, an Ubuntu-based live CD featuring some of the best open-source applications dedicated to incident response and computer forensics:"

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Datamation: "The United States is losing enough data in cyber attacks to fill the Library of Congress many times over, and authorities have failed to stay ahead of the threat, a U.S. defense official said on Wednesday."

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Handle With Linux: "This is wakamura a 100cm high little robotic pall , originally developed to be used in house as a baby sitter.
It has face recognition for 10 faces and understands 10000 words. It's powered by Linux and it's developed by mitsubishi."

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IT World: "The differences between Linux distributions these days are often so minute, there seems little reason to even review them anymore."

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The Open Road: "In an attempt to copycat Apple's hardware-plus-software vertical approach to the mobile market, the Linux industry is fragmenting fast and risks undermining its best chance for beating the iPhone."

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LinuxPlanet: "Want to clean up your home movies, make DVDs, or become a YouTube star? It's easy on Linux with Kdenlive, as Akkana Peck shows us in this new series."

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Linux Journal: "Qt comes with a handy tool that lives a rather anonymous life in the tools/qvfb directory. This tool does wonders when it comes to demoing, training users and creating documentation."

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KDE.news: "In March, we announced a set of labels for use by people creating KDE software, to demonstrate their association with KDE. We chose three options: Powered by KDE, Built on the KDE Platform and Part of the KDE Family and asked for artwork for badges and banners to illustrate these terms."

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Enterprise Mobile Today: "What the site found is a very fast new operating system sporting a version of Adobe Flash -- marking Flash's debut on the smartphone OS."

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Tuxmachines: "In line with its newbie-friendly tradition of providing a way to do everything via a graphical user interface, Ubuntu provides a way to do a distribution upgrade by clicking a button at the top of the Update Manager."

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The H Open: "Faster suspend and resume, better utilisation of power saving mechanisms for I/O devices and a range of performance enhancements are just some of the kernel infrastructure changes in Linux 2.6.34."

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My GNU/Linux: "If you have problems in understanding the substance of Free Software, read the following dialogue between Socrates and Antiphon "

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ServerWatch: "The latest smartphone sales figures from NPD Group show Google's Linux-based Android OS blowing the iPhone and Windows Mobile clean out of the water."

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Engadget: "the Taiwanese phone manufacturer just filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission, asking for importation and sales of the iPhone, iPad, and iPod be halted due to alleged infringement of five patents."

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tlhIngan writes "The US Air Force, having purchased PS3s for supercomputing research, is now the latest victim of Sony's removal of the Install Other OS feature. It turns out that while their PS3s don't need the firmware update, it will be impossible to replace PS3s that fail. PS3s with the OtherOS feature are no longer produced since the Slim was introduced, so replacements will have to come from the existing stock of used PS3s. However, as most gamers have probably updated their PS3s, that used stock is no longer suitable for the USAF's research. In addition, smaller educational clusters using PS3s will share the same fate — unable to replace machines that die in their clusters."
In related news, Sony has been hit with two more lawsuits over this issue.

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Many organizations have attempted to use open source sudo as their privileged identity management solution. While sudo might be a viable solution for small scale organizations, CSOs managing large IT environments are consistently discovering that sudo creates security, compliance and productivity challenges to large enterprises seeking to protect critical assets.

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Tired of slogging through Facebook's interface? Sick of seeing the Fail Whale? Cut through the cruft and simplify your social services with Gwibber -- a microblogging client for Linux that supports Identi.ca, Facebook, Twitter, and more.

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The Real Estate Coaster exists, at least virtually. It ends in 2007, though, so you miss the big drop

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SharePoint 2010 is nothing like its predecessors -- and this book is unlike any other book on upgrading. The book consists of a series of recent blog posts and articles from people who have been in the SharePoint admin trenches a long, long time. Together, these offerings provide an expert body of knowledge on how to launch SharePoint 2010 successfully, without pulling all-nighters or causing major disruptions.

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Michael Edson, director of web and new media strategy for the Smithsonian, discusses the Institution's online presence and its Commons initiative.

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Don't Simply Build a More Open Facebook, Build a Better One -- Most people don’t care so much about whether technology is “open” or “closed” so long as it works. (Case in point: iPhone.) Rather than starting your plans by picking which “open” standards you’ll use, start by designing a better social networking service and then determine how “open”

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The founder of craigslist.org talks about electronic privacy, Facebook, identity and trust online, and how social media can be used in and by government.

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Adobe PDF Navigator developer contest could get your Flex/Flash resume in front of leading RIA & brand agencies Win a MacBook Air, Dell Adamo, iPad, Nexus One or Netbook Adobe's Acrobat User Community has launched the Acrobat PDF Portfolio Navigator

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As new problems in computing arise, new languages are being created to help tackle those problems. We want to bring together programming language creators, researchers, and enthusiasts to share goals, experiences, and challenges. Our goal is to advance the state of the art in programming language design and implementation. We are holding the first-ever Emerging Languages Camp Wednesday, July

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An evolving set of best practices could offer a big lift for educational technology projects. Established best practices could define standards of quality and help others avoid pitfalls. Toward that end, here's a collection of thoughts intended to help those developing their own projects.