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"Basically, the UK patent office appealed against an earlier appeal against its own refusal to grant a patent to Symbian for a programming technique. Yes, you read that correctly: the Patent Office was trying to get an app read more »





"You're right I should start thinking more about what creates jobs. Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com (and countless other SaaS vendors), YouTube (Google), Wikipedia, Hi5, Ebay, PayPal (Ebay), Amazon, Apple, etc, all read more »





"The Linux Foundation has pursued a two-pronged approach: (1) an incremental improvement over the current ext3 and (2) adoption of a completely new file system as a long-term remedy. The interim file system, ext4, has been read more »





"First, some details about the advertisement. Many many U.S. newspapers on Sunday, October 12, included a multi-page Dell flier. Among the many products advertised was the Dell Inspiron Mini 9, a low-cost sub-notebook desi read more »





"Those are the main interesting bits within the image. There is some more LCD stuff that I haven’t listed here as it isn’t much good in it’s uncompleted state, but will hopefully give examples of everythi read more »


"X doesn’t impose any style on these windows; they’re all pretty plain by default. On top of X sits a piece of software called a window manager. You can have many different window managers, but only one can run at a time. The wind read more »


"The forum offers a number of categories
Forum lists announcement and has a section for providing feedback about the forum.
In News Releases you can discuss the latest and greatest KDE news, and even follow commits to the KDE code read more »


"Fedora release engineer Jesse Keating, who is employed by Red Hat, wrote in an email to developers that the first testing snapshot of Fedora 10 was available for download. The update represents one of the weekly testing builds of Fedora 10 a read more »


"OK, put your mice down. If you answered Linux, give yourself 10 points; Solaris, 9 points; OpenVMS, 8 points; Windows -- pardon me, what are you doing in this class? Remedial IT is down the hall. Just listen for the chorus of "Are you sure y read more »

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