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Submission + - OpenSUSE 11.1 Is Now Available

Submitted by Nate2 on Thursday December 18, 2008 @10:13AM

Nate2 writes: The new version of OpenSUSE is now here, sporting KDE 4.1.3, OpenOffice.org 3.0 and a bunch of desktop refinements. Grab a copy from here and see Linux Format's hands on look at the new features.

Comment Mean-spirited? (Score 5, Insightful) 838

by SultanCemil on Saturday July 26, 2008 @05:03PM (#24350297) Attached to: FSF's "Defective By Design" Targets Apple Genius Bars

You know, this isn't cool - its just damn annoying to anyone who actually *needs* to use the genius bars. This will just cause the general public to hate the FSF.

Submission + - Fedora 8 officially released (arstechnica.com) 1

Submitted by Cat in the Hat on Thursday November 08, 2007 @11:44AM

Cat in the Hat writes: Fedora 8 has been officially released. Ars Technica has a run-down of what's new in Fedora 8, including the PulseAudio sound daemon, Nodoka visual style, and a new authentication system. 'Another major change in Fedora 8 is the new PolicyKit authentication system that makes authority escalation more secure. Instead of providing root access to an entire program when it needs higher privileges, PolicyKit makes it possible to isolate individual operations that require higher privileges and put them into system services that can be accessed through D-Bus. Another advantage of PolicyKit is that it will give administrators more control over which users and programs have access to individual operations that use escalated privileges.'

First Look at RHEL 5 - From the New, More Open Red Hat 220

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @03:07PM from the reinvention dept.

Susie D writes "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 was released today, and Linux Format has an in-depth first look (with screenshots aplenty). With RHEL 5, Red Hat aims to become even more 'open', by using a shorter and clearer SLA, improving community involvement through its Knowledge Base, and providing the new Red Hat Exchange. But what you really want to know is, yes, it does include XGL for fancy 3D desktop effects."

Submission + - RHEL 5 - from the new, more open Red Hat

Submitted by Susie D on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @12:03PM

Susie D writes: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is released today, and Linux Format has an in-depth first look (with screenshots aplenty). With RHEL 5, Red Hat aims to become even more 'open', by using a shorter and clearer SLA, improving community involvement through its Knowledge Base, and prodiving the new Red Hat Exchange. But what you really want to know is, yes, it does include XGL for fancy 3D desktop effects...

Submission + - Software Deletes Files to Defend Against Piracy

Submitted by

teamhasnoi

on Saturday February 24, 2007 @02:10AM

teamhasnoi writes: "Back in 2004, Slashdot discussed a program that deleted your home directory on entry of a pirated serial number. Now, a new developer is using the same method to protect his software, aptly named Display Eater. In the dev's own words, "There exist several illegal cd-keys that you can use to unlock the demo program. If Display Eater detects that you are using these, it will erase something. I don't know if this is going to become Display Eater policy. If this level of piracy continues, development will stop." Is deleting user data ever acceptable, even when defending one's software from piracy?"

Journal Journal: Minnesota requires 25% renewable energy

Journal by SEWilco on Saturday February 24, 2007 @01:22AM

Governor Pawlenty of Minnesota has signed a bill which requires a significant amount of energy from renewable sources. "The bill signed by the Governor requires energy companies to provide 25 percent of power from renewable sources by 2025. Xcel Energy, which supplies appr

Everybody Votes on the Wii 87

Posted by Zonk on Thursday February 15, 2007 @05:41AM from the it's-like-democracy-only-more-efficient dept.

Wired's Game|Life blog has up a post pointing out a surprise from Nintendo: a cute voting application now available on your Nintendo Wii. Unannounced and easy to understand, Everybody Votes appears to be attempting to gain a gestalt view of the Wii-owning population. The app gives you several multiple choice questions to answer, and allows you to submit your own. Chris Kohler hopes that this might be the beginning of downloads for small, entertaining programs Nintendo fans may have never otherwise seen. "If you've ever been to an E3 or read about Nintendo's booth, you know that they often show little demos or applications that never get released. Well, with Wii, it seems that we might actually start seeing those little experiments thrown out to the public. Since Nintendo as a game developer uses this first-prototype-something-fun style of design, we could see all kinds of things that ordinarily wouldn't ever make it out of Nintendo headquarters." I personally hope we get a full-fledged version of the conducting game that Miyamoto used to demo the system at last year's E3.

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