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Microsoft, TomTom
settle patent
dispute.
 Microsoft and TomTom have reached a
settlement in their respective patent suits, the companies said
Monday. As part of the deal, as TomTom will pay Microsoft for
coverage related to mapping patents and file-management patents that
Microsoft claimed were infringed by TomTom's use of the Linux kernel.
Microsoft will also get coverage related to the TomTom patents that
were cited in TomTom's countersuit against Microsoft, although
Microsoft won't make any payment to TomTom. more... and TomTom
& Microsoft Settle "in a way that ensures TomTom’s full
compliance with its obligations under the GPLv2". and
Red Hat Fedora
reveals details on
intrusion attack.
Last August, Red Hat's Fedora project
announced that its servers had been compromised -- now 6 months later
(after an exhaustive investigation), Red Hat has revealed exactly
what happened. more... An update on the
Fedora
August 2008 intrusion.
Linus Torvalds
Upset over Ext3 and
Ext4.
Linus Torvalds, Ted Ts'o, Alan Cox,
Ingo Molnar, Andrew Morton and other Linux kernel developers are
embroiled in a contentious discussion over the sense -- or nonsense
-- of journaling and delayed allocation before a commit in the ext3
and ext4 filesystems. Heavy words are flying. more... and Kernel
developers squabble over Ext3 and Ext4.
Jackalope
sighting: first look at
Ubuntu 9.04 beta.
Ubuntu 9.04, codenamed Jaunty
Jackalope, has reached the beta testing stage. The beta release,
which was made available for download last week, provides users with
an opportunity to get an early look at the features that will be
included in the new version of the popular Linux distribution.
more...
Misc.
Amarok
2.0.2 - Better Than 1.4?
Microsoft
Rolls Back its “Open” Promises.
Portable
Ubuntu (for Windows).
K3b
2.0 coming to KDE4 mid-2009, Qt forked for port.
Battle
for Wesnoth 1.6 is out! and Battle
for Wesnoth 1.6.
GUI
Programming in Python For Beginners: Create a Timer in 30
Minutes.
Dell
acknowledges recession/depression with sub-$500 laptop
pricing
...
New
Intel IGP Appears In Linux 2.6.30 Kernel.
How To Tips.
How To 4
Ways to Create CD/DVD ISO Images in Ubuntu.
How To Sync
and Share Virtual Machine with DropBox.
How To Building
From Source using Apt-get in Ubuntu.
How To Easily
Mount ISO Files in Linux on Right Click.
How To Configuring
Printers Via The CUPS Web Interface.
How To Convert
VMWare Image (.vmdk) to VirtualBox Image (.vdi).
How To Change
the Wine Theme to Something More Appealing.
How To Getting
Rid of Nasty Flash Cookies on Linux.
How To Sendemail
from the command line using a Gmail account and others.
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P.M. at
Dooley's Pub,
442
Water Street, Eau Claire, WI.
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