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DragonflyBSD 1.10.1 has been released. It includes several bugfixes. "DragonFly is an operating system and environment originally based on FreeBSD. DragonFly branched from FreeBSD in 2003 in order to develop a radically different approach to concurrency, SMP, and most other kernel subsystems."
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Greenpeace Prods Apple to Become Environmental Leader
In its latest survey of practices among makers of electronic gadgets, Greenpeace has raised the bar of what the environmental group believes is required for "green" corporate citizenship. The analysis of the products and procedures of 18 major electronics manufacturers, released today, ranked two Silicon Valley giants -- Hewlett-Packard and Apple -- in the middle of the pack.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 26th Jul 2006 08:38 UTC
In the Linux land 99% of the applications are open source. It is part of the nature of the GNU/Linux community ecosystem to endorse open software. But there are a few applications that are not open and as they fill up a niche, they are pretty popular. Come in and vote for your favorite.
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Recent Original Stories
We're really on the subject of software installation issues on OSNews lately, and this story, making its rounds on the internet, fits in quite well. Back in the day, during the antitrust lawsuits against Microsoft, Microsoft had to make a whole slew of corporate email public.
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Judge backs Facebook deal in suit over origins
Facebook agreed to pay an undisclosed amount of cash and stock to settle a long- running legal battle over whether founder Mark Zuckerberg stole ideas for the site from fellow Harvard students, according to court documents released late on Wednesday.
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Since yesterday, .iso downloads for SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop/Server 10 have been available from Novell's download page . After seeking confirmation from Novell's Nat Friedman , we can confirm these are indeed the final releases.
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Splash applications coming to iPhone
I've just confirmed with the folks at Splash Data that they'll be announcing versions of SplashID, SplashMoney and SplashShopper for iPhone. SplashID is one of my favorite desktop applications and I use it several times a day to retrieve passwords, account numbers and all manor of other...
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Recent Original Stories
We're really on the subject of software installation issues on OSNews lately, and this story, making its rounds on the internet, fits in quite well. Back in the day, during the antitrust lawsuits against Microsoft, Microsoft had to make a whole slew of corporate email public.
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Dreamer calls for revolution of the algorithm
Fat cats and bourgeoisie called to action Fresh from challenging Silicon Valley to invest in ethical Web 2.0 efforts, a blogger-cum-consultant has proclaimed a "manifesto" for the next industrial revolution using Web 2.0.…
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Panasonic's tough new anti-Eee pc
PANASONIC THINKS EEE PCS are for cissies and has today unveiled a notebook it says is worthy of real men. The rugged, hardy, strong Toughbook CF-U1, is the latest UMPC to be added to the company’s Toughbook line.
The Inquirer |
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Few Cubans have phones or computers: Castro government
Forget iPods, BlackBerries and other electronic gadgets, most Cubans are still waiting for telephones and less than five per cent have a computer, the government reported on Thursday.
Ottawa Citizen |
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Dell's Studio Laptops Offer Personalization and Simplicity
Dell on Thursday announced a new consumer product line of PCs. Dubbed Studio, the laptops take a personalized approach to high-definition mobile computing. The Dell Studio 15 and Dell Studio 17 are the first two laptops in the new lineup. Dell opted for visual color elements and personalization options with features such as a built-in Webcam, media-control touch buttons, slot-load drives, ...
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Mitchell headed to Harvard conference
Social bookmarking allows users to save and categorise a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others. This is different to using your own browser bookmarks which are available using the menus within your web browser.
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Icann Paves Way for Hundreds of New Domains
The Internet’s key oversight agency relaxed rules to permit the introduction of new Internet domain names to join “.com,” making the first sweeping changes in the network’s 25-year-old addressing system.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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Laptop Searches in Airports Draw Fire at Senate Hearing
Advocacy groups and legal experts told Congress that it was unreasonable for federal officials to search the laptops of United States citizens when they re-enter the country from traveling abroad.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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When Your Camera Knows Where You Are
A new technology lets your digital camera detect thousands of silent wireless networking beacons, decide exactly where you are and then transmit a batch of photos wirelessly to your computer.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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Intel Won’t Embrace Microsoft’s Vista
Intel, Microsoft’s longtime partner in the development of the personal computer, has decided that it won’t upgrade most of the computers used by its employees to Microsoft’s Vista operating system.
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Internet org paves way for hundreds of new domains
The Internet's key oversight agency relaxed rules Thursday to permit the introduction of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of new Internet domain names to join ".com," making the first sweeping changes in the network's 25-year-old addressing system.
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Trustees approve police computer purchase
Fairfield Twp. Police Department will receive two more replacement laptop computers for in-car use during the next stage in a series of upgrades. The department began to replace computers last year after several units began to fall into disrepair, said Police Chief Richard St. John.
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A new dot boom - in names
WEB regulators have voted to allow the creation of thousands of new domain names, from .paris to .Pepsi, in one of the biggest shake-ups in internet history.
News Interactive |
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ReadyTalk Co-Founders Dan King and Scott King Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2008 Award Winners in ...
ReadyTalk, an audio conferencing and web meeting services provider, today announced that co-founders Dan and Scott King received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2008 Award in the Software Services category in the Rocky Mountain Region.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Instantiations Rolls Out Product Updates in Conjunction with Eclipse 3.4 and Ganymede
Instantiations announced that its entire Eclipse-based product line has been updated to coincide with the annual Eclipse open source release, Ganymede. Included with the roll-out are additions in the area of security to its CodePro AnalytiX comprehensive code quality product, bringing advanced standards-based security auditing to developers desktops as they write code. The Ganymede release train ...
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Download these developer resources today! Sybase Download: SQL Anywhere Developer Edition
SQL Anywhere provides data management and exchange technologies designed for database-powered applications that operate in frontline environments without onsite IT support, and it's offered at no cost for development and testing.
Linux Today |
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Bill Gates, Version 2.0
It's hard to imagine Microsoft without Bill Gates, CBS News technology correspondent Daniel Sieberg reports, but Friday will be his last day managing the company's day-to-day operations.
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Akiba-chan CG/Stop-Motion Anime's Promo Video Streamed
The official Japanese website of the Akiba-chan computer graphics and stop-motion television series has posted a promotional video.
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