Software Stories for 2008

The 10 Coolest Open Source Products of 2008 198
AMD Releases Open-Source R600/700 3D Code 307
Campaign to Open Source IBM's Notes/Domino 255
Interclue and What Going Proprietary Can Do 149
Michael Meeks Says OO.o Project is "Profoundly Sick" 676
Microsoft Invents $1.15/Hour Homework Fee For Kids 580
Managing Last.FM's "Mountain of Data" 139
Google, Apple, Microsoft Sued Over File Preview 250
Linux 2.6.28 Promises Year-End Presents 305
OpenSUSE 11.1 License Changes Examined 90
Configuring a Windows PC For a Senior Citizen? 823
Shuttleworth Proposes Overhaul of Desktop Notifications 306
Microsoft Extends XP To May 2009 For OEMs 605
Citrix To Bring Millions of Windows Apps To iPhone 172
Denver Couple Unveils Homemade Service Robot 140
New Contest Will Seek the Best "I'm Linux" Video 460
How To See In 3D On Your iPhone 94
Java Performance On Ubuntu Vs. Windows Vista 258
Linux Compatibility With VR Goggles? 170
2009, Year of the Linux Delusion 696
British Royal Navy Submarines Now Run Windows 725
Nepomuk Brings Semantic Web To the Desktop, Instead 140
Adventure Game Interfaces and Puzzle Theory 149
64-Bit Java For Linux 387
Is MySQL's Community Eating the Company? 223
Samba's Jeremy Allison On Linux's Future 193
Wine Goes 64-Bit With Wine64 385
Vista To XP Upgrade Triples In Price, Now $150 907
BitTorrent For Enterprise File Distribution? 291
Microsoft's Thumbtack, an Answer To Google Notebook 107
Intel Developers Demo USB 3.0 Throughput On Linux 231
Windows Cheap Enough For $2B Aussie Laptop Deal 234
Followup To "When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux" 626
Apple's 3D Desktop Patent Filing Examined 156
Google Chrome Is Out of Beta 444
Oracle Adds Data-integrity Code To Linux Kernel 53
Which OS Performs Best With SSDs? 255
Best Open Source Alternatives To Enterprise Apps 348
Slackware 12.2 Released 351
OpenSolaris 2008.11 Released, Reviewed 87
Oops! Missed One Fix — Windows Attacks Under Way 292
Should Apple Open Source the iPhone? 379
When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education 1589
Google Native Client Puts x86 On the Web 367
Khronos Releases OpenCL Spec 115
Evolution of Mona Lisa Via Genetic Programming 326
FOSS Community Can Combat Bad Patents 58
Sun's Mickos Is OK With Monty's MySQL 5.1 Rant 155
Free Resources for Windows Perl Development 117
What Programming Language For Linux Development? 997
Amazon Fights Piracy Tool, Creators Call It a Parody 268
AT&T Sidestepping Google, Eyes Symbian 139
IBM Launches Microsoft-Free Linux Virtual Desktop 344
Sun Releases JavaFX 185
Why Use Virtual Memory In Modern Systems? 983
Opera 10 Alpha 1 Released, Aces Acid 3 Test 258
A Look At Modern Game AI 87
Optimizing Linux Use On a USB Flash Drive? 137
Red Flag Linux Forced On Chinese Internet Cafes 295
Persistence Pays Off With Israel's First Windows Refund 84
Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Expected Tomorrow 149
Real-World Benchmarks of Ext4 249
Losing My Software Rights? 440
Race and Racism In Video Games 371
Windows Drops Below 90% Market Share 595
Making BitTorrent Clients Prioritize By Geography? 227
Look What's Cooking At Microsoft Labs 125
Too Good To Ignore — 6 Alternative Browsers 291
FreeBSD 6.4 Released 64
New Massive Botnet Building On Windows Hole 223
BitTorrent Calls UDP Report "Utter Nonsense" 238
MySQL in a Nutshell 86
MySQL 5.1 Released, Not Quite Up To Par 175
Cost-Conscious Companies Turn To Open Source 249
What Needs Fixing In Linux 865
The Myth of Upgrade Inevitability Is Dead 597
Florence Nightingale, Statistical Graphics Pioneer 204
Linux Foundation Says All Major Distros Are IPv6 Compliant 241
MS Says Windows 7 Will Run DirectX 10 On the CPU 503
Atheros Hardware Abstraction Layer Source Is Released 117
On the State of Linux File Systems 319
Left 4 Dead Demo Includes Linux Steam Client Libraries 217
Linux Kernel Booting On the iPhone 115
An Optimized GUI Based On Users' Abilities 114
Proprietary Blobs and the Pursuit of a Free Kernel 405
Editor, DLC Coming To Fallout 3 98
Suggestions For Cheap Metrics Eye Candy Software? 201
Blockbuster's Movie Download Box Runs Linux 194
Searching DNA For Relatives Raises Concerns 199
Benchmarks For Ubuntu vs. OpenSolaris vs. FreeBSD 131
Fedora 10 Released 211
Google Chrome Tops Browser Speed Tests 371
The Comparative Value of 2-D Vs. 3-D Graphics In Games 107
How About an iPhone OS Or Android-Based Netbook? 162
Google Sorts 1 Petabyte In 6 Hours 166
Is Open Source Software a Race To Zero? 729
Red Hat's Max Spevack On Defending Linux Freedom 91
Zimbra Desktop Vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle Attack 49
Taking a Look at Nexenta's Blend of Solaris and Ubuntu 248
Microsoft Moves To Quash Case, End E-mail Revelations 158
Can You Be Denied the Right To Support OSS? 212
Internet Explorer 8 Delayed Until 2009 204
Interest Still High In the Netflix Algorithm Competition 77
Google Chrome OEM Strategy To Take On IE 290
Setting Up a Home Dev/Testing Environment? 136
Final Judgment — SCO Loses, Owes $3,506,526 265
Silverlight On the Way To Linux 475
Adobe Releases C/C++ To Flash Compiler 216
Windows Breaks Into Supercomputer Top 10 294
Debian Packages Screenshots Repository Launched 72
Microsoft Feared Mac Vs. Vista In '05 652
Microsoft To Offer Free Anti-Virus Software 448
Secure OS Gets Highest NSA Rating, Goes Commercial 352
HP's Fury At Vista Capable Downgrade 499
AIX On the Desktop Is Getting the Boot 366
Adobe Releases Preview of 64-bit Flash For Linux 329
Preview the New MythTV User Interface 229
Stallman Unsure Whether Firefox Is Truly Free 905
NASA Draws On Open Source For Shuttle Bug-Tracking 83
Apple Quietly Releases Safari 3.2 129
OpenOffice Five Times As Popular As Google Docs 207
16 Interviews With Linux Kernel Hackers 72
Sun Banks On Open Source For Its Survival 211
NVIDIA Releases New Video API For Linux 176
Internal Emails Released In Vista Capable Debacle 314
Microsoft Exploit Predictions Right 40% of Time 182
AMD Banks On Flood of Stream Apps 124
Debian Lenny Installer RC1 Arrives 81
Microsoft's Office Web Will Do iPhone, Linux, Mac 202
Ubuntu Ports To ARM 279
Boot Windows Vista In Four Seconds 326
Fixstars Buys Terra Soft 20
Saving Energy Via Webcam-Based Meter Reading? 215
Microsoft's "Dead Cow" Patch Was 7 Years In the Making 203
Java Trial Support Coming In Linux Standard Base 126
Microsoft Denies Paying Nigerians $400K To Ditch Linux 148
OLPC's "Give 1 Get 1" Comes To Europe 134
OpenOffice Vs. Google Apps 336
Colombia Signs Up For OLPC Laptops With Windows 154
Good Freeware System Snapshot Tool For Windows? 219
Windows 7 Benchmarks Show Little Improvement On Vista 369
AVG Virus Scanner Removes Critical Windows File 440
VMware Promises Multiple OSs On One Cellphone 90
NVIDIA Makes First 4GB Graphics Card 292
StarOffice Dropped From Google Pack 135
How Social Software Can Improve Democracy 182
Microsoft Working On Its Own App Store 195
Which Computer Books For Prisoners? 257
Netbooks Take a Bite Out of Windows Profits 221
US Army To Use MMOs For Turing Tests 55
ODF Toolkit Announced 71
Old Malware Tricks Still Defeat Most AV Scanners 122
Red Hat & AMD Demo Live VM Migration Across CPU Vendors 134
(Stupid) Useful Emacs Tricks? 412
iTunes On OS X Finally Has Competition 668
(Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks? 702
Ubuntu 8.10 vs. Mac OS X 10.5.5 Benchmarks 328
Microsoft Begs Hardware Makers To Take Support Seriously 543
(Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? 2362
Microsoft Discontinues Windows 3.x 384
Linux Supports More Devices Than Any Other OS 272
A Linux-Based "Breath Test" For Porn On PCs 345
Steam Cloud Launches This Week 69
Wayland, a New X Server For Linux 487
OpenBSD 4.4 Released 235
Asus To Phase Out Sub-10" Eee PCs 497
MBR Trojan Approaching the 3-Year Mark 165
Opera Mini Not Rejected From iPhone (Yet) 202
German Foreign Ministry Migrates Desktops To OSS 147
Low-Income Users Latch On To iPhone 422
HP Opens Up TouchSmart To Third-Party Developers 32
Motorola Moving to Android, Windows Mobile for Smartphones 136
Tasks of a Free Software Legal Department 24
Morris Worm Turning 20 84
BBC Brings DRM-Free Content To Linux Users 131
Ubuntu 8.10 Outperforms Windows Vista 689
Triple Booting an Intel Mac the Right Way 101
How To Make Money With Free Software 187
Looking At Changes In the Newest GCC 54
Shuttleworth Says Canonical Is Not Cash-Flow Positive 304
TWiki.net Kicks Out All TWiki Contributors 194
Researcher Warns of "Digital Dark Age" 367
Attack Code Found For Recent Windows Bug 184
The Personal Genome Project Hits the Web 87
Microsoft Pushes Windows To Battle Linux In Africa 248
Lame Duck Challenge Ends With Free Codeweavers Software For All 433
The Second Coming of Virtual Worlds 117
Is Ubuntu Getting Slower? 544
OpenOffice.org V3.0 Sets Download Record, 80% Windows 451
Best OS For Netbooks and Underpowered Tablets? 272
PC Makers Try To Pinch Seconds From Their Boot Times 399
What Normal Users Can Expect From Ubuntu 8.10 511
Shuttleworth On Redefining File Systems 414
Nintendo Blocks Homebrew Installation 251
User Interface of Major Oscilliscope Brands? 281
Microsoft to Issue Emergency Patch For File-Sharing Hole 348
Russia Mandates Free Software For Public Schools 271
Fedora 9 Would Cost $10.8B To Build From Scratch 293
Can You Trust Anti-Virus Rankings? 258
Linux Kernel Surpasses 10 Million Lines of Code 432
Microsoft Calls Today Global Anti-Piracy Day 500
Cray's CX1 Desktop Supercomputer, Now For Sale 294
Linux Ecosystem Is Worth $25 Billion 176
Ext4 Advances As Interim Step To Btrfs 510
eBay Makes Huge Gains In Parallel Efficiency 47
Why the Kill Switch Makes Sense For Android 384
S3 Jumps On GPGPU Bandwagon 86
Generic VMs Key To Future of Coding 139
BSDanywhere Announces First Release 97
Mainframe OpenSolaris Now Available 135
Do Software Versions Really Matter? 693
Linux Now an Equal Flash Player 437
Gnome's Nautilus Gets ZFS Integration, In OpenSolaris 38
Australian State May Give Students Linux Laptops 302
Linux On Brazilian Voting Machines, the Video 252
Nvidia Problems Hit HP Desktops 141
Bugs Delay Release of Debian Lenny 227
Machines Almost Pass Mass Turing Test 580
OpenOffice.org 3.0 Is Officially Here 284
New York Times Says Thin Clients Are Making a Comeback 206
Elcomsoft Claims WPA/WPA2 Cracking Breakthrough 349
A 3D Curve Sketching System For Tablets 72
Open Office Plans To Party Like It's Version 3.0 396
Apple Admits Nvidia GPU Defect In Some MacBook Pros 89
Asus Ships Eee PCs With Malware 124
Computer-Aided Lego Art Project 112
Wikimedia Simplifies By Moving To Ubuntu 215
Sony, Microsoft Begin Battle of Virtual Worlds 180
Linux 2.6.27 Out 452
Algorithms Can Make You Pretty 288
Mandriva Linux 2009 Released 106
David Axmark Resigns From Sun 229
Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring 147
Mono 2.0 and .NET On Linux 405
Enterprise Software Sales Dried Up In September 173
Linux Turns 17 Today 285
Optical Character Recognition Still Struggling With Handwriting 150
Gov't Database Errors Leading To Unconstitutional Searches? 272
Netbook Return Rates Much Higher For Linux Than Windows 663
Report Says China Will Demand Source Code 305
Maine To Skip Vista, Go Directly To Windows 7 242
Microsoft Treating "Windows-Only" As Open Source 383
Motorola To Hire 300 Android Developers 88
MediaDefender's Parent Company Joins P2P Market 40
Easy, Reliable Distributed Storage and Backup? 222
6.7 Meter Telescope To Capture 30 Terabytes Per Night 67
Norwegian Standards Body Members Resign Over OOXML 208
e1000e Bug Squashed — Linux Kernel Patch Released 111
How To Kill an Open Source Project With New Funding 187
An Open Source Legal Breakthrough 292

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