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Links 5-6/10/2008: A Look at Omega GNU/Linux, Mandriva 2009 RC2; Linux Turns 17

Posted in News Roundup at 2:05 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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Linux turns 17
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Omega 10 Live CD Beta: Fedora With Added Multimedia

I wanted to run a couple of other multimedia tests on a more powerful desktop machine – it has an AMD Sempron 3800+ processor and 1.5GB of RAM with two DVD drives. On this machine Omega 10 loaded much quicker, the sound and screen resolution (1280×1024) were perfect and my wired network was automatically configured.

F/OSS

So, what am I doing with OpenSolaris?
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OpenOffice.org in the City of Katowice, Poland

We have begun this series of articles focusing on Free Software deployments in Polish government departments with the article OpenOffice.org in Łeba. Today we are introducing yet another example of a well-done implementation of OpenOffice.org, in Town Council of Katowice.
GPL Project Watch List for Week of 10/03: Financial Crisis and Open Source

We have noticed an increase in AGPL v3 numbers this week, which shows that the interest in the AGPL v3 is still growing. It is a relatively small license compared to the GPL v3, but is finding its niche in the market.
Telepathy support in Qt Extended – soon in main Qt?
Freedom Walk: Day 2 – Kanhangad to Cheruvathur
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OpenStreeMaps: free software’s answer to Google and commercially-restricted geo-data
Sri Lankan MIT award recipient proof of power of volunteerism
Open source can still win in a down economy
Choose the right licensing model for security software

KDE

Leftovers

Judge halts sales of RealDVD
Wal-Mart Drops DRM Servers, Customers Lose Music

To those of you who were loyal early adopters of Wal-Mart’s music download service, Wal-Mart has a message for you: Say goodbye to your music. Since February Wal-Mart has offered only DRM-free songs for download, but before that customers of Wal-Mart’s service could download songs encoded with DRM. BoingBoing picked up an e-mail Wal-Mart sent to its customers saying the DRM servers will be shut down on October 9, making it impossible for customers to transfer their DRM encoded music to a music device or another PC after that date.

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