Following more than two years of development, the Xfce project team recently released version 4.4.0 of its popular open-source desktop environment. Xfce 4.4 includes new tools, such as the Thunar file manager, as well as several significant improvements to its core components, according to the release announcement.
Source: Xfce Linux desktop arrives at v4.4.0
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While Microsoft’s agreement with Novell to resell Suse Linux seemed secure as recently as last week, the Free Software Foundation may have finally found a way to put a bug into the program. The Free Software Foundation, an organization that controls the intellectual property to key parts of the open source Linux operating system, [...]
Many Linux apps let you manage your movie collection, or your book collection, or your music collection — but Data Crow is one of the few that handles all of the above, plus software and images. It also puts a lot of import tools at your fingertips that can save you from entering information about [...]
Canadian police might want to offer a little more detail to StatsCan
by Shane Schick
I’m no police officer, but I can almost guarantee you that there were more than two cases of Internet-based fraud in Ottawa in 2005.
Source: itbusiness.ca
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SINGAPORE, Feb 8 (Reuters Life!) - Think your job is killing you? A humorous Web site set up by an online recruiting firm shows you exactly how bad things are.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - New Internet TV services such as Joost and YouTube may bring the global network to its knees, Internet companies said on Wednesday, adding they are already investing heavily just to keep data flowing.
Google, which acquired online video sharing site YouTube last year, said the Internet was not designed for TV.
It even issued [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Two of YouTube’s founders stand to divide shares of stock now valued at around $650 million, Web search leader Google Inc. said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday detailing the payout from its $1.65 billion acquisition.
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Chad Hurley, chief executive of the online video sharing phenomenon YouTube, received 694,087 of Google common [...]
The ROX Desktop is a lightweight alternative to GNOME or KDE built around the ROX-Filer file manager. The project’s name is an abbreviation of “RISC OS on X.” The ROX Desktop’s performance is reminiscent of IceWM, and it’s noticeably faster opening programs than GNOME or KDE. However, its speed comes at the expense of a [...]
LOS ANGELES — A recording industry group fired back Wednesday at Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs, suggesting his company should open up its anti-piracy technology to its rivals instead of urging major record labels to strip copying restrictions from music sold online.
Source: Globe and Mail
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BEIJING–China, often criticized by the West for failing to tackle rampant illegal downloading of music and films, said Thursday it had closed 205 Web sites in a crackdown on Internet piracy.
Source: ZDNet
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