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Open Solaris still has some Linux copying to do

06/13/2008  I
Relevance: 5.56
Sun has made good on its promise to deliver OpenSolaris, the company's Unix-based answer to Linux, with a company-supported, commercial update arriving in mid-May. Although far from a complete product, the latest OpenSolaris is impressive and in the long run could prove a viable alternative to Linux. Part of OpenSolaris' appeal is that it contains a subset of the source code for the Solaris Operating System, but with an open source license. Among the familiar Sun features are the enviable DTrace tuning and monitoring tool and the ever-impressive ZFS filesystem, neither of which are likely to make it to Linux due to licensing and personality conflicts.
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Nexuiz 2.4 Offers Impressive Graphics

03/01/2008  II
Relevance: 4.89
Since the release of Nexuiz 1.0 in 2005, we have been tracking its progress as one of the leading open-source first person shooters. With time, this fast-pace game has picked up a nice level of artificial intelligence for its in-game bots, engine optimizations, single-player campaign missions, and a variety of technical advancements. Nexuiz has always been one of the leading open-source first person shooter games, and with the release of Nexuiz 2.4 yesterday it reaffirms that you don't need to be a major game studio -- or a game studio at all -- to develop a quality title and even for being a free software game it has impressive graphics. With the graphical settings near maximized, a GeForce 8600GT on a quad-core system was brought to its knees by this free software (and free content) game.
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Nexuiz 2.4 Offers Impressive Graphics

03/01/2008  II
Relevance: 4.75
Since the release of Nexuiz 1.0 in 2005, we have been tracking its progress as one of the leading open-source first person shooters. With time, this fast-pace game has picked up a nice level of artificial intelligence for its in-game bots, engine optimizations, single-player campaign missions, and a variety of technical advancements. Nexuiz has always been one of the leading open-source first person shooter games, and with the release of Nexuiz 2.4 yesterday it reaffirms that you don't need to be a major game studio -- or a game studio at all -- to develop a quality title and even for being a free software game it has impressive graphics. With the graphical settings near maximized, a GeForce 8600GT on a quad-core system was brought to its knees by this free software (and free content) game.
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Super-fast remote desktops with FreeNX

08/23/2006  IIIIIII
Relevance: 4.65
Tired of old VNC? Give NoMachine's NX system a try for impressive remote desktop action.
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Dell IdeaStorm's First Birthday

02/15/2008  III
Relevance: 4.30
Just one year after Dell launched the IdeaStorm website where users can submit and vote on ideas for Dell to improve, the list of changes Dell has made is impressive, including launching their first Linux PCs.
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Munich Linux scales desktop management

10/24/2006  IIIIIIII
Relevance: 4.25
The City of Munich has developed impressive systems for rolling out and maintaining Linux desktops for large numbers of users, according to a British developer who had a close-up view of the system.
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KeyJnote: A nifty engine for your presentations

06/04/2007  I
Relevance: 4.20
If you need to create a presentation every now and then, but you find OpenOffice.org Impress too complicated and bulky, check out KeyJnote, a tool that turns any PDF document or set of graphics files into a professional-quality presentation with impressive transition effects.
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Movie of the day

08/21/2007  IIIIII
Relevance: 4.19
David Scharf and the University of Applied Sciences in Augsburg, Germany, have published an impressive short animated movie about stopping the big brother state under a CC-nc-sampling+ license. I point to the place where I found it, and to the original site, where you can download it in different formats, and explain why this is important.
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Songbird 0.6 Review - The Bird Got Wings

06/18/2008  I
Relevance: 4.13
The best feature Songbird has is the integrated web browser from Mozilla, which allows tabs, the ability to enter any web address (for example you are not only limited to Wikipedia or Last.fm, you can search anywhere on the web for music), and it's completely configurable via the Tools -> Options menu. Songbird also benefits of an impressive number of add-ons, one of them being the Last.fm song submission.
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Why Linux Kernel 2.6 Rocks

08/31/2006  III
Relevance: 4.13
If you are the kind of person who believes in the phrase"More is Good," then get ready to be bogged down by the impressive new set of features that Linux kernel 2.6 boasts. Since the very beginning, Linux is known for its stability, and kernel version 2.6 continues the saga.
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