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Free Long Distance . . . Really!

04/21/2007  IIIII
Relevance: 5.01
Who, besides myself, would like to avoid paying hefty long-distance fees? I see. Well, how does free long distance to anyone anywhere in the world sound? That's what I thought. How? By using your Linux system and a Voice over IP program, of course.
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Dear Windows, It's over

03/06/2008  III
Relevance: 4.88
Dear Windows Professional Service Pack 2: I didn't want to tell you this in person, because I thought it might be too complicated, and might take too long. After all, we've been together for a long time, almost five years and running now. I know, i know. I know you so well; your control panel, your installation procedures, even when you get mad and go all blue screen on me; what can I say, you kinda grew on me. But to be honest, things have been going downhill for a long time now.
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The Long Term (Ubuntu) Solution

05/16/2008  III
Relevance: 4.65
Ubuntu 8.04 has some nice short-term benefits, but the real upside involves Canonical's long-term support.Here's why, according to Works With U, a new site that tracks Ubuntu.
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Why Flash 9 for Linux is taking so long

11/30/2006  III
Relevance: 4.57
Adobe skipped a version of Flash for Linux and released stable versions of the Flash 9 player for Windows and Mac OS X long before the beta of Flash 9 to Linux users. Paul Betlem, senior director of engineering for Adobe, explained why the process is taking so long.
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BBC embraces Linux at long last

10/17/2007  IIIII
Relevance: 4.46
The BBC has at long last announced it is adding Linux support to the forthcoming TV over the Internet iPlayer service.
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The Lost Tribe of OLPC

07/11/2008  II
Relevance: 4.46
Once upon a time, long ago, there was someone from a faraway country in South America doing an advanced program at MIT in Boston, where he met with the soft-shell stage of the One Laptop Per Child project. This person eventually went back to his country, started meeting and inviting locals to learn about OLPC. He kept in touch and received a couple visits of now long, long gone and forgotten OLPC employees. Eventually he called his team the"Grupo OLPC (country name)".
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The migration of a fussy Windows user to Linux

12/28/2007  II
Relevance: 4.33
I'm a very fussy user when it comes to my operating systems and I have managed to get by with Windows XP for a long time, but its days are numbered. Vista is looming and I refuse to install that rubbish, so I have chosen Kubuntu 7.10. Having declared myself a part of the KDE crowd in the long-running desktop environment flame war, allow me to describe how this fussy and long time Windows user upgraded from XP to Linux to avoid the impending doom of XP's old age and the otherwise inevitability of Vista…
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ODF vs OOXML - views from the coal face (Poll)

01/12/2008  I
Relevance: 4.28
Standards wars? Mini-PollLong, long ago, in an industry far, far away, a number of large companies struggled to decide whether to adopt a document interchange format as a global standard.
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OLPC spinoff in talks with four laptop makers

05/23/2008  IIIII
Relevance: 4.20
Not long ago it was unclear whether the PC--originally conceived as a US$100 laptop for children in developing countries--would ever become a reality after a long series of delays. Now the XO laptop seems on the verge of becoming a hot item, and all the research that went into it is leading down divergent paths.
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Opening the Cellwaves

07/28/2008  I
Relevance: 4.19
How long before the carriers and the FCC admit that the new transmission medium for radio is the cell system? And how long before they also recognize that the cell system is properly part of the Net's infrastructure and not just cordless telephony with messaging tacked on?
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