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4 min ago | Ars Technica

SCO boss: I was offered $2 million by Utah's top prosecutor

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.

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Related Topix: SCO Group Inc The, Software, Science / Technology, Linux

4 hrs ago | The Inquirer

Mageia 3 is a great way to banish Microsoft forever

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.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Linux, Microsoft, Startups, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Opinion

8 hrs ago | TG Daily

Remixing Fedora for the Raspberry Pi

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

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Related Topix: Fedora, SD, Science / Technology, Linux

9 hrs ago | LinuxSecurity.com

Ubuntu: 1836-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

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

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Linux, Ubuntu

13 hrs ago | Engadget

Samsung GT-i8800 smartphone makes an appearance running Tizen 2.1

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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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Science / Technology, Linux, Gadgets

14 hrs ago | LXer Linux News

High-res batch convert EMZ / WMZ grahpics to PNG a.k.a. 'liberating your graphics'

LXer is read by around 350,000 individuals each month, and is an excellent place for you to publish your ideas, thoughts, reviews, complaints, etc.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Linux, Microsoft Office, Microsoft, Startups

Thu May 23, 2013

ConsortiumInfo.org

Storm Shelters, Safe Rooms Save Lives

The Standards News Portal is updated on a daily basis to bring you the most important news about standards - how they are created, how they affect you - and who's doing what to whom.

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Related Topix: Tornado, Natural Disasters, us Travel, Travel, Science / Technology, Linux, Illinois

ITworld

Download free Bitdefender Antivirus app for Android devices

"Take Bitdefender's award-winning antivirus protection with you! Bitdefender's Antivirus Free is a powerful and fast solution that uses in-the-cloud scanning technology to arm your Android device with the very latest industry leading virus detection.

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Related Topix: Android, BitDefender, Scanners, Science / Technology, Linux

InfoWorld

Open source development surges for Android and, surprisingly, iOS

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

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, WAN, Apple, Startups, iPhone

Python

mkschroot 0.1.2

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

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Related Topix: Ubuntu, Science / Technology

Blue's News

Wargaming's Open Source Support

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.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Wikimedia Foundation

Fsf.org

GNU/Linux chosen as operating system of the International Space Station

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

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Linux, NASA, Space

Wed May 22, 2013

Application Development Trends

Pauseless Java Virtual Machine Integrates with WebSphere

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 .

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Related Topix: Programming Languages, Java, Science / Technology, Linux, CPU

OStatic

It's Easier Than Ever to Slap Your Favorite Linux Distro Onto a Chromebook

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

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Linux, Ubuntu, Computers

Linux Journal

Designing Electronics with Linux

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

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Linux, CPU

The Code Project

How to Run Plantronics Spokes in a Mac or Linux Machine

This article is in the Product Showcase section for our sponsors at CodeProject.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Linux, Tellme

Linux Today

Hybryde Fusion: A very unique Linux distribution

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)

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Linux, Ubuntu

I programmer

Kivy 1.7 Released

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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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Linux

Tue May 21, 2013

LXer Linux News

Steganography In Ubuntu, Hide Your Files Inside An Image

LXer is read by around 350,000 individuals each month, and is an excellent place for you to publish your ideas, thoughts, reviews, complaints, etc.

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Related Topix: Ubuntu, Science / Technology, Linux

ComputerZen.com

How to setup a Load Balanced Web Farm of Virtual Machines (Linux or...

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.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Linux, GitHub, Ubuntu

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