Tailbeep Talks to Festival
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more »GNOME Cleartext Passwords: Bug or Feature?
Nov 02, 2009The current discussion in the Ubuntu forums is about a possible security hole in GNOME, specifically about GNOME registered users having their passwords appear as cleartext on the keyring. Not a bug, say its defenders, but the security concept behind the GNOME keyring.
more »Mysterous Mail: Will Skype Become Open Source?
Nov 02, 2009French Mandriva user Olivier Faurax registered a support case at Skype complaining about a missing Mandriva package. Instead of the package he received a reply of some amazement.
more »AMD Engineering Manager is the New Palm Head of Linux Kernel
Nov 02, 2009Mobile specialist Palm strengthens its team by hiring Matthew Tippett, the Linux graphic driver developer since 2003 at ATI, to be in charge of Linux kernel development.
more »GRML Team Release Stable Version 2009.10
Nov 02, 2009The latest version of the Austrian pocketknife Linux distribution was released just in time for Halloween.
more »Pimp Your Nautilus: NScripts 3.6
Oct 30, 2009Not long after the release of GNOME 2.8 comes a new version of NScripts. Included are a handful of new ease-of-use functions for GNOME's Nautilus data manager.
more »Oracle to Invest More in MySQL Development
Oct 30, 2009In a new FAQ, Oracle explains their position regarding SPARC, Solaris, Java, MySQL, and Open Office to clear up the many questions circulating.
more »Kickoff for KDE on Maemo
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