May 2, 2007
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In late April, SUSE Project Manager Andreas Jaeger announced on the openSUSE list that “Beginning with the next alpha release of openSUSE 10.3, alpha 4, ZENworks will be gone. Instead, openSUSE “will use the native tools only — Zypper, openSUSE-updater, … Continue reading
March 5, 2007
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Many would-be Linux users don’t make the leap because there are one or two Windows applications they just can’t live without. That doesn’t have to hold them back anymore. Thanks to Wine (Wine is not an emulator), an open-source implementation … Continue reading
January 29, 2007
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Adobe Systems Inc. on Jan. 29 announced that it has released the full PDF (Portable Document Format) 1.7 specification to AIIM, the Association for Information and Image Management. AIIM, in turn, will start working on making PDF an ISO standard. … Continue reading
January 23, 2007
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Linspire announced today that it plans to expand its CNR (“Click ‘N Run”) digital download and software management service to support multiple desktop Linux distributions beyond Linspire and Freespire, initially adding Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, and Ubuntu, using both .deb and … Continue reading
October 17, 2006
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One major advantage Microsoft developers have over their Linux counterparts is that they have access to MSDN (Microsoft Software Developer Network), a magnificent online developer resource. Linux has had nothing to compare. Until now. The Free Standards Group (FSG), a … Continue reading
October 9, 2006
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I love free software. I use open-source programs and operating systems every day. But once in a while, I want to take some free software developers and shake them until their teeth rattle. At the moment, I’m ticked off because … Continue reading