New FreeBSD Version 7.3: improved ZFS and Gnome 2.28.2

Mar 24, 2010

Ken Smith from the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has announced the released version 7.3 for download. The new FreeBSD comes with updated ZFS and a re-worked bootloader.

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Parted Magic 4.9: New Device Names

Mar 23, 2010

Parted Magic, a Live Linux with programs for partitioning and data rescue, is available in version 4.9. Apart from bug fixes, it includes a few new features.

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Novell Rejects Elliott Associates Buyout

Mar 22, 2010

Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian informed all Novell customers per email on March 20 that the buyout proposal from Elliott Associates was rejected in that it undervalued the company.

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CeBIT Open Source 2010: Forum Talks Online

Mar 22, 2010

Next delivery of CeBIT videos -- the presentation streams from Thursday, Friday and Saturday of the Open Source Forum at CeBIT Open Source 2010 are available online. Free for all!

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CeBIT Open Source 2010: Forum Talks Online

Mar 22, 2010

Next delivery of CeBIT videos -- the presentation streams from Thursday, Friday and Saturday of the Open Source Forum at CeBIT Open Source 2010 are available online. Free for all!

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Swiss Education IT Agency Campaigns Against Microsoft Live@edu

Mar 22, 2010

The Swiss federal agency known as Schweizerische Fachstelle für Informationstechnologien (SFIB) or Centre suisse des technologies de l'information dans l'enseignement (CTIE) has studied the user licenses for Microsoft products in Swiss schools. The result is a warning against the licensing and a recommendation to use open source products.

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Braindump Brings Ideas to Computer

Mar 19, 2010

KDE developer Cyrille Berger now provides his Braindump whiteboard program in its first public release. The GPL software is based on KOffice technology.

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Ubuntu 10.04 Button Rearrangement Becomes Hot Topic

Mar 19, 2010

The new window buttons in the next Ubuntu release are creating a lot of hot heads and much misunderstanding. The issue has gone way beyond just the button arrangement.

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