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more »Fedora 12 in Alpha
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more »Thursday is Feature-Freeze for Ubuntu 9.10
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more »i4i: "OpenOffice Doesn't Infringe Our Patents"
Aug 21, 2009On August 11, a court in Texas banned the sale of Microsoft Word in the US due to a patent lawsuit, concerning XML features, brought by the Canadian company i4i.
more »KDE Default DeskTop for openSUSE
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more »Path Free for Python with Qt and AMD's OpenCL
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more »Weave Sync Performance Improvements
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more »Kget with Increased Capability
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Fedora 44 Now Gaming Ready
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