Bug 421: Wine Developers Upset About Maintainer
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more »Red Hat vs. Switzerland:Official Complaint Against 40 Million Swiss Franc Contract
May 25, 2009In February, the Swiss Federal Office for Construction and Logistics (Bundesamt für Bauten und Logistik, or BBL) sealed a deal with Microsoft for an estimated 35-million-dollars worth of licenses. Red Hat, along with 17 other Open Source enterprises, has filed an official complaint.
more »Multithreaded Mail Carrier: Postfix 2.6.0
May 19, 2009Mail transfer agent (MTA) Postfix is now available in version 2.6.0. Managing multiple Postfix instances on a single host is now possible for the first time.
more »Experiment: a June Without Windows
May 18, 2009Two Windows trainers will step into an unfamiliar world without Microsoft starting June 1st. The two bloggers will record their daily experiences with Linux from the perspective of Windows users to document the change-over for the newly converted.
more »ROX Desktop Filer in Version 2.9
May 11, 2009The slim file manager ROX Desktop, with the ROX-Filer file manager at its core, provides inotify support and allows backslashes when renaming files.
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Apr 30, 2009Agedu Finding obsolete files with Agedu
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more »Zim Managing notes with Zim
Apr 30, 2009The Zim information manager offers far more than digital notes by exploiting data networking options.
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