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more »CeBIT Open Source: Live Stream of Forum Talks for Free
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more »CeBIT Open Source 2009 -- Presenting Free Projects
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more »FOSDEM Video: Listening, Asking, Testing at the Conference
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Nils Magnus of Linux Magazine Online pulled together the heads of three Linux distros for an interview and put them in a video: openSUSE's Joe Brockmeier, Debian's Steve McIntyre and Red Hat's Max Spevack.
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more »CeBIT Open Source Project Lounge -- AllBSD FreeBSD and NetBSD -- Representing the BSD Operating Systems
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