I love open-source. I came to it a couple of years ago, and it's opened my eyes to a world of flexible, creative software and tools that I hadn't known about. The community behind a lot of those ideas is vibrant and fascinating. But one thing that's come to bug me quite a bit is ho ...

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And thus, our true colours reveal. Since Obama was the young newcomer, technically savvy, many of us were hoping that he might support patent and/or copyright reform. In case our story earlier on this subject didn't already tip you off, this certainly will: Obama has sided squarely with the RIAA/MPAA lobby, and backs ACTA. No copyright and/or patent reform for you, American citizens!

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I have noticed that this particular distribution tends to be on the heavy side of memory usage. This got me thinking. If OpenSUSE uses this much memory on my machine, how could it possibly run on a machine with 512MB of RAM (the lowest recommended amount)? If Ubuntu is the most popular distribution, but it is also, what I would call, a fully-fledged desktop distribution, then how does it manage given tighter memory constraints? And so the mini-experiment begins.

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In the trial at the Court of Appeals, the dispute about whether it is SCO or Novell who owns the copyrights to Unix is taking a new turn

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Microsoft has lost its appeal against a court judgment that found it guilty of infringing i4i patents.


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Two reports have concluded that governments around the world are increasingly limiting freedom of expression on the internet.


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A few days ago Google’s CEO pronounced that that the PC would be dead in 3 years.

As an Ex-CTO for a large multi-national hardware company that stet strategy based on his predictions, you’d likely give his comments a lot of credit. Given it was Sun that he worked for, maybe not so much.

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Epic has confirmed that its Unreal Engine 3 will now offer support for Nvidia’s 3D Vision technology.

“Today’s announcement means that licensees of the world’s most successful game engine will be able to take full advantage of integrated 3D Vision technology support and offer an unprecedented level of immersion in their upcoming games,” said Nvidia spokesperson Tony Tamasi.

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Gaming used to be about playing not work, but with the advent of virtual currency to enhance game options, more and more gamers say they are willing to earn cyber cash by pimping themselves out to marketeers as survey monkeys, ad video guinea pigs and subscription sign up sasquatches.


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There's a large selection of free and open source (FOSS) operating systems available these days, and choosing the right one for any given circumstance can be quite a challenge. This article is intended to help you pick the best operating system for your needs and experience level. Although this article is geared primarily toward those who have little to no experience with FOSS operating systems, we've included some pointers for more savvy open source users – say, those who use a FOSS operating system at home and would like to deploy one on the job.

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Do you want to remove bloat from your Linux installation? Are you looking to enable extra features that aren't provided by your distro? Fancy trying some of the cutting-edge patches doing the rounds? You'll need to recompile your kernel, and while it might look like black magic if you've never done it before, it's actually pretty straightforward. Read on for everything you need to know...


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