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Strange YaST and openSUSE 11.2 KDE problemsview story

http://forums.opensuse.org – This morning when I turned on my PC, I noticed that YaST was having a problem refreshing the repository list, giving an error that it was unable to download the necessary .xml files. I looked around and was able to do this in the CLI with "zypper ref", followed by "zypper up" which updated 1 package. (Distributions)

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News: iFreeTablet: the GNU/Linux Answer to the iPadview story

http://www.raiden.net – Given the fierce competition in the market of the tablets where all the big companies in the sector: Apple, Google and Microsoft have an alternative in the market or in development, a Spanish company presents after Apple a cheapest option, based on free software.On February 4 will be presented, the ... (Distributions)

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News: Nokia Goes Even More Open Source, Opens Symbianview story

http://www.raiden.net – It's official. Nearly two years ago, Nokia spent $410 million to buy all of Symbian, the mobile operating system software in which it already owned a major stake -- and promised to turn it into a new, royalty-free mobile software platform.Today, Nokia announced that the Symbian Foundation, an organ ... (Distributions)

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logger missingview story

http://www.linuxquestions.org – I have a relatively basic install of debian lenny, and logger is missing. the package it was supposed to come with (util-linux) is installed. tried a reinstall of that package, but no difference. many software packages depend on logger to be working. i am confused. (HowTos)

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DVD/CD-ROM Drive Missingview story

http://www.linuxquestions.org – My daughter has a Dell desktop unit 2.5Ghz & 2MB RAM. I got rid of the win distro that it came with and installed Ubuntu 6.4 from a DVD and everything worked fine. I have done distro updates over the net and it is now at Ubuntu 9.14. (HowTos)

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openSuSE Forumsview story

http://forums.opensuse.org – Hi, I would just suggest that forums would be organized using more sub-forums for specific situations. For instance, a HARDWARE generic cathegory which would include subforums for architecture, graphics devices, audio devices, storage devices, chipsets and laptops. (Distributions)

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Zynga brings FarmVille to Windows Live Messenger and MSN Gamesview story

http://www.downloadsquad.com – 75 million unique users simply isn't enough, as far as Zynga's concerned! Using the power of Facebook Connect, Zynga -- the developer of FarmVille, Cafe World, Mafia Wars and others -- is bringing FarmVille to Windows Live Messenger and MSN Games. (General)

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Microsoft’s former Vice President speaks out against Microsoft’s lack of innovationsview story

http://digitizor.com – Dick Brass, a Vice President at Microsoft from 1997 to 2004, wrote an article in The New York Times in which he speaks out against what he calls “Creative Destruction” in Microsoft. In the article, he discussed why Microsoft is no longer the company leading the technology revolution that it was some years ago. (HowTos)

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Free Loans at 0% Interestview story

http://www.linuxfoundation.org – In a recent Back Duck survey, we found that companies doing software development are using significant amounts of open source software; about 22% of code was identified as originating from an OSS project.   (General)

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Time to die, but Microsoft can't kill Internet Explorer 6view story

http://apcmag.com – World governments want you to stop using IE6. Microsoft does too. But the software giant claims its hands are tied -- it's like a drug. Why Microsoft can't stop supporting IE6. (IT news)