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Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.60 Just Released for Ubuntu Hardy Heron and other Os's!

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| The application was initially offered under a proprietary software license.
| In January 2007, after several years of development, VirtualBox OSE (Open
| Source Edition) was released under GNU General Public License (GPL) version
| 2. Currently, there is a proprietary version, VirtualBox, which is free only
| for personal or evaluation use, subject to the VirtualBox Personal Use and
| Evaluation License (PUEL) and an Open Source Edition(OSE), VirtualBox OSE,
| which is free for commercial and private use, subject to Copyleft and other
| requirements of the GPL license.
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http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/05/virtualbox-160-just-released-for-ubuntu....

VirtualBox 1.6: new features

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Bluewhite64 12.1 is Released

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| I am pleased to announce the availability of the Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1!
|
| Among the many program updates and distribution enhancements, you'll find
| better support for RAID, LVM...

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Linux 2.6.26-rc1

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| Lots of changes, but nothing that really feels all that fragile to me.
| Famous last words. I expect that the x86 PAT support (which has been long
| in the making) has the potential to have some issues, but the obvious
| problems were hashed out long ago, and while the merge window already
| showed one bug, that one was fairly benign and quickly fixed.
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http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/3/196

The Progress Of X.Org 7.4

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| If all goes according to plan, X.Org 7.4 will finally be released this month.
| This release isn't quite as elaborate as X.Org 7.3, which introduced input
| hot-plugging, EXA enhancements, and RandR 1.2 to just name a few features,
| but X.Org 7.4 is another update better enhancing this X server.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=xorg_74&num=1

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Cisco: Networking Is Hot Again

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| Network operating systems are also keeping the networking market hot. Cisco
| has recently expanded its operating system lineup to now include IOS, NX-OS
| and Linux. IOS is Cisco's core internetworking operating system that powers
| many of its switches and routers, while NX-OS is a purpose built OS for
| Cisco's Nexus core switching platform.
|
| As for Linux, Cisco is using the open source operating system in various
| areas including the AXP module that turns ISR routers into Linux app servers.
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http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3744611

Recent:

Cisco's Linux-Based ISR Opens Road For Customized Solutions

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Release the OOXML final DIS text now !

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| So the SC34 Secretariat should have distributed the "final DIS text" by March
| 29th, or at the very least, when the final ballot results on OOXML were known
| a few days later.
|...

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CrossOver for BSD systems coming soon!

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| Today a discussion started about the availability of CrossOver for BSD
| systems on the CodeWeavers mailing list... And most of last month I was away
| on vacation and somehow missed a post made by Jeremy White the founder and
| CEO of Codeweavers announcing the availability of CrossOver Games for BSD
| systems. Jeremy also let it be known that CrossOver Office 7 will be
| supported on BSD systems as well! Below is a quote of Jeremy's announce to
| the mailing list.
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http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2008/05/crossover-for-bsd-systems-coming-soon.ht...

Puffy and the Cryptonauts: What's New in OpenBSD 4.3

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It's Time for PCWorld to Change Its Name

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| For the past 20 years the words PC and Windows were almost synonymous. Ask
| someone what kind of computer they owned, and if they said, "I have a PC,"
| then you knew they didn't own a Mac or Linux computer.
|
| Times have changed. The Eee PC has taken the world by storm. Apple is
| resurging with full force. Linux is here to stay -- and can only grow in use
| on desktops, cell phones and other mobile devices.
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http://blogs.pcworld.com/communityvoices/archives/2008/05/its_time_for_pc.html

With Wine 1.0 on its way maybe there will be 'Win-compatible PCs' (or
Win-compatibles), just like IBM-compatibles (before IBM sank).

Related:

Windows Vista: Sold but not deployed

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LGP To Start Work On Another Game

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| Linux Game Publishing is still in the middle of porting X3: Reunion and
| Bandits: Phoenix Rising to Linux, but they soon will be starting work on
| another title. This game coming to Linux, however, still isn't known. At the
| LGP website they will be showing one pixel of an image every second until the
| entire image has loaded. Once all pixels (or most of them) have been loaded,
| the forthcoming title will be know.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjQ1OA

Recent:

Shadowgrounds Survivor Coming to Linux

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| Frozenbyte has announced an agreement with Linux specialist company IGIOS Ltd
| to port "Shadowgrounds Survivor" to Linux.  
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http://www.2404.org/news/4117/Shadowgrounds-Survivor-Coming-to-Linux

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Day 2 of the Novell v. SCO trial

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| Is a license to Microsoft more valuable than what MS paid SCO? Perhaps so.
| Certainly Novell might think so.
|
| If the money paid to Novell comes up short, Novell has a few options. And, my
| bet is that some very interesting discussions take place in that back room
| between Novell and SUN and between Novell and Microsoft. Fly on that wall
| kind of thing.
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http://www.lamlaw.com/tikiwiki1983/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=492

SCO Doesn't Own UNIX - Someone Please Tell SCO

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Windows XP SP3 still officially AWOL, but can be found on BitTorrent, Microsoft
servers

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| On Tuesday, in a low-key announcement on a support newsgroup, Microsoft said
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| it would delay the release of XP SP3 because of data corruption issues
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| between the updated operating system and its retail point-of-sale software.
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http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName...

If it was non-Microsoft software that suffered from this, Microsoft would just
let it be. Microsoft doesn't give a bleep about 'third party' software.

Recent:

XP change corrupts data, hamstrings SP3 rollout