FSF Settles with Cisco over Licensing
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more »64-Bit Slackware Officially Released
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more »Ubuntu Karmic Koala in First Alpha
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more »So what? Windows 7: 7 Reasons Not to Get too Excited (Update)
May 14, 2009It’s official: Windows 7 will be on the shelves just in time for the Christmas season. From an Open Source perspective, this is nothing ground-breaking: It’s just the same old Windows.
more »Community Angered over Canonical's Ubuntu One
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more »Breakthrough in Sync Support: SyncML Client Under GPL
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more »Rescue is on the Way: System Rescue CD 1.2.0
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more »Dell Freshens Up Its Mini 10 Netbook with Ubuntu
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