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more »Cebit 2008: Green and Cheap – Round Table Discussion in Hanover
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more »Cebit 2008: Samsung Targets Business Market
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more »FOSDEM 2008: Fedora Becoming more Independent of Red Hat
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more »linux.conf.au 2008 Linux down under at Linux.conf.au 2008
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more »KDE 4 Release Event Report from the KDE version 4 release event
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