People of openSUSE: Martin LasarschOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 413 days ago (http://news.opensuse.org)
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Carlos Gonclaves interviews Martin Lasarsch a developer and evangelist for openSUSE (Novell's Linux distro.) at the openSUS blog. read more »
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Road to Mac OS X Leopard: Spaces (Multiple Virtual Desktops)Open in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 415 days ago (http://www.appleinsider.com)
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Prince McLean over at AppleInsider offers a historical view at virtual desktops as well as commenting on the successful implementation of this concept in the upcoming Apple Mac OS X Leopard release, read more »
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Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat & Novell.Open in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 415 days ago (http://www.groklaw.net)
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Red Hat and Novell have been sued by IP Innovation, a subsidiary of Acacia over a claimed patent infringement. This same company has previously sued Apple and Microsoft. read more »
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Wine 0.9.47 Released.Open in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 415 days ago (http://www.winehq.org)
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Wine 0.9.47 has been released with numerous fixes and enhancements. See this page for the full list of fixes and enhancements. read more »
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New Extendable Metadata Support to be included in ODF 1.2Open in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 416 days ago (http://blogs.sun.com)
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Svante Schubert writes about his work on extendable metadata support for the ODF 1.2 specification, which will in turn be part of the OpenOffice.Org Office Suite. He explains why this addition matter read more »
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OpenOffice.Org Extensions Website Takes Off!Open in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 416 days ago (http://blogs.sun.com)
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Nils Fuhrmann comments on the quick take-off of the new OpenOffice.Org Office Suite Extensions website. The new extensions offer a similar method of extending the functionality of the office suite to read more »
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OpenOffice.Org Weekly Development Notes - Week 41.Open in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 416 days ago (http://blogs.sun.com)
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Dieter Loeschky once again offers his excellent development notes explaining what exactly the OpenOffice team is working on. read more »
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Ballmer's No-Bombshell Response.Open in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 416 days ago (http://www.microsoft-watch.com)
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Joe Wilcox over at Microsoft Watch offers his thoughts on Ballmer's recent comments concerning open source's violation of Microsoft patents. read more »
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