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Tutorial: GRUB vs. the Inodes: Who Needs a Bootable System, Anyway?

05/02/2008  
Relevance: 6.02
Users of GRUB legacy, which is version 0.97, are getting bitten by an e2fsprogs incompatibility that renders their systems unbootable. e2fsprogs is the utilities package for the Ext3 filesystem, so it doesn't affect other filesystems. Resident expert Carla Schroder explains the problem and details some fixes to get affected systems back up.
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Get your FLAC on with MP3FS

10/06/2006  
Relevance: 5.74
I don't know if the folks at Xiph.org can live day-in and day-out using only the free Vorbis, FLAC, Speex, and Theora codecs, but the rest of us routinely run into consumer devices that don't recognize and support them. But with a little help from Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) and MP3FS, you cross one incompatibility off that list. MP3FS lets you mount a directory hierarchy of FLAC audio files and transparently present them as MP3s to software and hardware devices alike.
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How GPLv3 Tackles Licence Proliferation

11/11/2006  
Relevance: 5.63
Increased compatibility and flexibility can make the GPLv3 a viable option for more projects, which could reduce licence proliferation. Preventing licence incompatibility can also reduce the problems caused by the increasing number of licences. This article is a discussion primer for what licences, such as GPLv3, can themselves do to ease licence proliferation.
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Microsoft, Mozilla, Google Talk Browser Futures

09/23/2008  
Relevance: 5.58
Representatives of big browser makers Microsoft, Mozilla and Google talk about the future of browsers, as developers decry browser incompatibility and ask what browser makers plan to do about it. The panel of experts talked about HTML 5, Canvas, Silverlight, IE 8, Google Chrome and Firefox at the Web 2.0 Expo.
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