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LOS ANGELES — A federal judge has thrown out an antitrust lawsuit filed by the distributor of Morpheus file-sharing software against Internet phone service provider Skype Technologies SA, eBay Inc. and other defendants.
Source: Globe and Mail
Posted by LinuxChick - Baldys Paradox
Rivals Microsoft Corp. and OpenOffice.org on Tuesday both released toolkits that support building applications for their competing document file formats and productivity suites.
Source: Linux World
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San Francisco (dpa) - A week before the launch of Microsoft’s new Vista operating system, its open-source competitor Linux received a giant boost Monday as prominent high-tech companies announced they were forming a consortium to promote the free challenger.
Source: Top tech firms back Linux over Vista
Posted by Baldy - Baldys Paradox
There is no question about it, Linux and tax software have not been the best fit over the years. As expected, the usual excuses were being used: there are not enough Linux users to warrant a Linux version, or if people want, there is always the online options made readily available to those who chose not to.
(And yes this is one major program that is lacking in linux I am sorry to say, Baldy)
Source: Linux and The Desperate Need for Tax Apps
Posted by Baldy - Baldys Paradox
This article shows how you can modify the partitioning of your Linux system with GParted (Gnome Partition Editor) without losing data. This includes resizing partitions (enlarging and shrinking), moving partitions on the hard drive, creating and deleting partitions, and even modifying filesystem types. GParted is a free partition editor available as a desktop program and also as a Live-CD. It supports the following filesystems: ext2, ext3, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, reiserfs, reiser4, ufs, xfs, and even ntfs (Windows).
Source: Modify Your Partitions With GParted Without Losing Data
Posted by Baldy - Baldys Paradox
Microsoft and Novell are proudly announcing the biggest proof-point to date that their groundbreaking alliance to work together for the benefit of their customers has real traction: Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, is gearing up to take advantage of Microsoft and Novell’s collaboration and interoperability efforts between Microsoft Windows and Linux. Under the terms of the agreement, Microsoft will deliver Suse Linux Enterprise Server subscription certificates to Wal-Mart for use in its IT infrastructure.
Source: Is Wal-Mart’s Support for Suse Linux a Tipping Point?
Posted by Baldy - Baldys Paradox
If you run a stable system, you don’t have to miss out on the latest and greatest releases of your favorite applications — just use a backport to get a package of a new release that’s been “back-ported” to your older distribution.
Source: Run new packages on older distros with backports
Posted by Baldy - Baldys Paradox
Linspire today announced plans to overcome the complexity of installing software in different Linux distributions with its new “CNR for all” warehouse. Click ‘N Run is Linspire’s one-click installation program that downloads software, resolves…
Source: Linspire to make CNR available to users of other distributions
Posted by Baldy - Baldys Paradox