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Development: Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.30!view story

http://permalink.gmane.org – ====================================== Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.30! ====================================== Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.30, the latest version of the popular, multi-platform free desktop environment and of its developer platform. (Software)

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Linus Torvalds joins Microsoft next-gen OS team, quits Linuxview story

http://www.itwire.com – In a move certain to surprise, shock and even anger many, the creator of the Linux kernel, Linus Torvalds, today signed up as Chief Software Architect with Microsoft to work on the Redmond Giant’s next-generation operating system with Dave Cutler. (IT news)

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Linux Mint 8 “Helena” Xfce released!view story

http://www.linuxmint.com – The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 8 “Helena” Xfce Community Edition. Quick steps: (Distributions)

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Linux Mint 8 “Helena” LXDE released!view story

http://www.linuxmint.com – The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 8 “Helena” LXDE Community Edition. Quick steps: (Distributions)

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KDE Releases Software Compilation 4.4.2view story

http://dot.kde.org – Today, the KDE team brings you another update to the 4.4.0 development platform, applications and workspaces. Several bugs, some of them crashers have been fixed, so 4.4.2 will feel nicely stable. (Software)

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Jolicloud 0.9 Robby Pre-Final Brings the 'Cloud' Closerview story

http://news.softpedia.com – The makers of Jolicloud have been on a roll lately. Jolicloud is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu aimed at netbooks. It lays a great emphasis on cloud apps and many believe it to be a true competitor to Google Chrome OS. (General)

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Remove “Show Passwords” button in firefoxview story

http://techie-blogger.com – (General)

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openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 116 is out!view story

http://news.opensuse.org – Issue #116 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out! (Distributions)

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Williams F1 uses AT&T Synaptic Hostingview story

http://www.itwire.com – The AT&T Williams Formula 1 team is using AT&T's Synaptic Hosting service to help cope with massive peaks in web site traffic. (IT news)

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Development: TARBALLS DUE (before Monday 23:59 UTC!, don't forgettranslators!): GNOME 2.30.0 Final Releaseview story

http://permalink.gmane.org – Hi all, While translators and the documentation team are busy pushing fixes until the very last minute, a lot of coders are enjoying some quiet days. Ah, the hard code freeze is a good excuse to procrastinate. Sure, not everybody manages to procrastinate successfully: some people are still working hard on fixing those last major bugs that are annoying. Aren't they crazy? (Software)