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more »Chuck Norris Botnet Affects Linux Routers
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more »PC-BSD 8.0 with KDE 4.3.5
Feb 23, 2010PC-BSD, the FreeBSD-based free desktop platform, is available in version 8.0.
more »Twitter and Co. to Protect Ubuntu Users with Update Alerts
Feb 19, 2010A new alert system should warn Ubuntu users via micro-blogging about potentially harmful updates.
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Jan 29, 2010CAcert is among the 15 projects that will present their work at CeBIT, offering community based security certificates.
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