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Extensions for OpenOffice.org Draw
05/19/2008 
Draw is probably the most under-estimated of the OpenOffice.org applications. Either users seem to expect it to be equivalent to the GIMP or Visio, or ... 
First public Firefox 3 candidate shoots out the door
05/19/2008
Mozilla has pushed out the initial release candidate of Firefox 3 for download. The new Firefox code of the firm's increasingly popular web browser is ...
Investors Bet $12 Million On Open Source ERP, POS
05/19/2008
Openbravo, maker of open source ERP (enterprise resource planning) and POS (point of sale) platforms, has secured $12 million in new funding. The VAR ...
2.6.26-rc3,"Another Week, Another -rc Release"
05/19/2008
"This time around, we have 60+% of the changes in drivers, notably drives/video and drivers/media, with some infiniband, networking and usb lovin' to ...
Web Input - Securing Data, First Level of Defense
05/19/2008
LXer Feature: 19-May-2008This article focuses upon testing the reliability user input at the lowest level. The first line of defense is use of automat ...
Save bandwidth with apt-cacher (Debian/Ubuntu)
05/19/2008
If you have more than one Debian or Ubuntu Linux machines in your home or office, you know that when you upgrade them you have to download the same fi ...
Sorting your data with msort
05/19/2008
msort is a tool for sorting text files. With both a command-line and graphical interface, it allows you to pick out where your sort keys are in a file ...
This week at LWN: Blizzard tests the reach of copyright law
05/19/2008
Free software users rarely, if ever, need to be concerned about the license that governs the applications they use. Unlike developers or distributors, ...
Ubuntu - 8.04 (Review)
05/19/2008
Ubuntu, the popular Linux distro that seems to be on the doorsteps of mainstream acceptance, gets better and better with each release. Their latest re ...
Can Microsoft 'do' open source by 2015?
05/19/2008
The recently appointed head of Microsoft's global Linux and open source team hopes the company will have a clear and comprehensible open source strate ...
AMD FireGL V8600: Linux vs. Windows
05/19/2008
Since the introduction of AMD's new Linux OpenGL driver and their open-source strategy running in parallel, the past few months have been especially e ...
Sun Wiki Publisher extension for OpenOffice.org shines
05/19/2008
Wikis are a great way to collaborate on text documents, but different wikis sometimes use incompatible wiki markup languages, and few wikis provide si ...
DistroWatch Weekly: Technology vs ideology, Ubuntu hate, bleeding-edge Fedora 9
05/19/2008
Welcome to this year's 20th issue of DistroWatch Weekly! Fedora 9 came out last week as expected, but the many experimental features and software ...
AMD FireGL V8600: Linux vs. Windows
05/19/2008
Since the introduction of AMD's new Linux OpenGL driver and their open-source strategy running in parallel, the past few months have been especially e ...
Setting up a local repository with debmirror
05/19/2008
I set up a lot of PCs and while I have a fast 10Mbs Internet connection I wanted to utilize my faster internal network bandwidth better. With a new di ...
Microsoft considers new Yahoo! deal
05/19/2008
Microsoft is talking to Yahoo! about an alternative transaction that doesn't involve an acquisition, the world's largest software maker said Sunday. Y ...
Wine 1.0 release status
05/19/2008
wine-1.0rc1 was released on Friday, May 9th, 2008. Wine is now in a code freeze in preparation for the 1.0 release. According to http://wiki.winehq.or ...
Microsoft Stockholder? Take Stock in This...
05/19/2008
How quickly the mighty retrograde their product line. And in the end, it is pretty funny. It wasn't a multi-billion dollar coalition of global competi ...
A Comparison of LiMo and Android
05/19/2008
With LiMo's recent announcement that Verizon had hopped onto their Board of Directors, things are starting to heat up between the LiMo platform and Go ...
Simpler Method to Internal Bookmark Footnotes Using the Anchor Tag
05/19/2008
I have already written on this topic once and I thought that sufficed. Nonetheless, I soon found myself when pressed shirking my duty, by not making i ...
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