European Open Route Service Complete
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Feb 06, 2009Nokia issued its first release candidate for Qt 4.5 that includes, among other things, translucent widgets.
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more »Zope 3.4 Now Egg-Based
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more »CeBIT Open Source Project Lounge - GOsa² GOsa² -- Central Software and Ressource Management
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more »CeBIT Open Source Project Lounge -- Mozilla Mozilla Firefox Browser and Internet
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