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Darl McBride, the former chief executive officer of SCO, says he was offered $2 million by the Utah attorney general in May 2009 in exchange for taking down a website criticizing an area business person.

LINUX DISTRIBUTION Mageia launched its third and latest release Mageia 3 a few days ago, and that's now available to download directly from the Mageia website and many of the well known mirrors like kernel.org and many university supported mirrors via either Bittorrent, http or ftp.

Unsurprisingly, the Fedora flavor of Linux was one of the first third-party operating unofficially ported to the $35 Raspberry Pi.

Software Description: - linux-ti-omap4: Linux kernel for OMAP4 Details: An flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's perf_events interface.

Samsung's relationship with Google seems solid enough for now, but the company is still hedging its bets with Tizen should things turn sour.

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WAN consumption patterns have evolved from predictable, point-to-point transactions to bandwidth-hungry, always-on, many-to-many interactions.

It assumes that you're using a 64 bit host machine, and doesn't check that you're on Debian as it should .

Developer/publisher Wargaming announces their plans to provide financial support to three open-source development foundations: the Linux Software Foundation, the Django Software Foundation, and the Wikimedia Foundation.

This is a wise choice for the space station, and a high-profile victory for software freedom.

Java runtime maker Azul System has launched a new product that integrates IBM's WebSphere app server with an enhanced version of its Zing Java Virtual Machine .

If you've been in the market for a portable computer, you may very well have considered buying a Chromebook.

In many scientific disciplines, the research you may be doing is completely new.

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From the release number, you can probably guess that it is based on Ubuntu Desktop 13.04. But what you cannot guess from the name or release number is that it ships with its own desktop environment called HY-D-V1. It also makes it super easy to test-drive other desktop environments from the same installation, without ever rebooting the computer or ... (more)

A new version of Python library Kivy has been released with an Android Emulator and innovations for organizing widgets and addons.

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A buddy of mine was thinking to move some of his Linux-based website to Azure. If you're running a Web Site that this node.js, ASP, ASP.NET, or PHP, it's easiest to use Azure Web Sites.