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• Open-Xchange Offers Lifeline to Zimbra Users 4 hours, 31 minutes ago
  
  Companies Concerned with Microsoft/Yahoo Deal Can Switch to Open-Xchange for Discount
• Linux-based programmable clock radio arrives 14 hours, 31 minutes ago
  
  Chumby Industries announced volume shipments of its Chumby "consumer Internet device" at a price of $180 apiece. Chumby also announced a slate of content providers for the Chumby Network, including CBS, MTV Networks, MySpace, The Weather Channel Interactive, AOL's SHOUTcast and Scripps Networks.
• Dawn of the Linux dead 15 hours, 1 minute ago
  
  Over the last week we’ve been covering how the Linux multitasking scheduler works. Today it’s time to see what Linux has in common with popular horror flicks: this story has it all – zombies and zombie children, and a reaper.
• Trademark policy dispute causes friction in OpenSolaris community 15 hours, 31 minutes ago
  
  Dissatisfaction has surfaced in the OpenSolaris community in the wake of a trademark policy dispute that raises questions about the project's autonomy and the nature of Sun's role as the project's sponsor and facilitator. This emerging conflict adds to existing friction within the nascent community and reflects the challenges that participants will face as development moves forward.
• On why I am not running 16 hours, 1 minute ago
  
  With lots of mixed feelings, I have decided a run for Congress would not help the Change Congress movement. I explain the thinking in this 5 minute video (a new record for me!). First question: What happens to the contributions to Lessig08? As explained on the ActBlue page, all will go to (the yet to be established) Change Congress organization.
• NetworkManager and Fedora 9 16 hours, 31 minutes ago
  
  GNU/Linux systems have often come under attack for the difficulty involved with setting-up and configuring various wireless devices. Thanks to NetworkManager we now have a system that allows us to quickly and easily connect to different networks. As a result of improvements made to NetworkManager during the Fedora 8 release cycle the developers are ready to deliver some incredible new features, including ad-hoc networking, multiple active devices and internet connection sharing. To find out more we talked with Dan Williams, Fedora project member and NetworkManager developer.
• Zebuntu 7.10 Beta 3 Screenshots 17 hours, 1 minute ago
  
  Zebuntu is an Xfce-based Ubuntu distribution with heavy - you guessed it - Zeta influences. Our goal is to use BlueEyedOS to offer a new platform for our former Zeta customers. In the future, Zeta, BeOS, as well as any future Haiku applications, will run natively on Zebuntu.
• Ubuntu: Bridging the technology gap 17 hours, 31 minutes ago
  
  Mark Shuttleworth feels that "free software brings a number of huge advantages" to the problem of spanning the educational and technology gap between rich and poor nations.
• IPv6 and IPv4 - big trouble coming, and soon 18 hours, 1 minute ago
  
  You'll know that most of the Internet runs on IP version 4, the first cut of the Internet Protocol to see widespread use. It was standardised in 1981; for the past twenty five years or so, it's underpinned the beyond-massive expansion of the Internet.
• The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy — and Their Open Source Alternatives 18 hours, 31 minutes ago
  
  Not every proprietary program can drive a person crazy, right? Some, like Norton Ghost, are superb tools for anyone to use. But, the fact that these tools are proprietary can drive open source fanatics up a wall. It’s not the price of the software that makes the real difference (although it’s a reason to migrate from one software to another for many people); it’s the idea that proprietary software comes with boundaries that keeps the user experience confined to…well, being the user. That’s enough to drive any developer crazy.
• Review: A Sneak Preview of Picasa 2.7 for Linux 19 hours, 1 minute ago
  
  Google's Picasa software is a powerful tool for managing your photo collection. It provides a simple interface for organizing your pictures, as well as some easy-to-use, yet powerful image manipulation tools. However, until recently the Windows version of Picasa has had some features that put it above the Linux version; some of these features, like Picasa Web Album integration, are at the core of the program, without which Picasa isn't very useful. With its newest release, the Linux version is being brought up to par with its Windows counterpart.
• Class action suit against Microsoft gets greenlight 19 hours, 31 minutes ago
  
  A federal judge said Friday that consumers may go ahead with a class action lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. over the way it advertised computers loaded with Windows XP as capable of running the Vista operating system.
• Putting terabytes of memory into servers, the cheap way 20 hours, 1 minute ago
  
  Disk drives have only recently begun to be measured in terabytes. MetaRam CEO Fred Weber is talking about putting terabytes of memory into servers.
• First impressions of Sidux, the Debian based Linux distro 20 hours, 31 minutes ago
  
  Several years ago, when I acquired my first computer and began to learn more and more about them, I did not dream that I would be using one as much as I do today. Even though I have worked in the automotive service industry for over ten years, (the first part of it was actually in the shop), I basically use the computer skills I have learned to provide for my family. When I first started using a computer, Windows 3.1 was all I knew about and then I moved on to Windows 95, Windows 98, and then Windows XP. I suppose I am insatiably curious about new things, because I am not happy until I know everything there is to know about something new. That is probably what led me to where I am now.
• Switching office suites from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice 21 hours, 1 minute ago
  
  You’ve been thinking about it for a while. You’ve seen the PDF converter and sighed longingly; you’ve blushed before the skeptical glances of your open-source and anti-Microsoft friends who say “You’re still using Microsoft Office?” you’re looking at your budget and wondering why you would pay to get Microsoft Office 2007. And you’ve received Word 2007 files and haven’t been able to open them, so you know there’s going to be some file format issues no matter what you do.
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