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Jul 05, 2005

Linux Moves Into Mid Range Motorola Phones

By Staff Staff | Posted at 10:41 PM

Motorola announced a new step this week in its plan to remake most of its mobile phone line with Linux, expanding use of the open-source operating system to midrange phones.

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Debate Without End: KDE and Qt Licensing

By Timothy R. Butler | Posted at 10:32 PM

Thinking on the issue of licensing and KDE, an old hymn came to mind. “As it was in the beginning, is now, And ever shall be…” Yes, the issue of licensing has been a perennial problem for the Free/Open Source desktop and I would suggest its biggest licensing issue remains: the GPL.

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Jul 02, 2005

Shoot Off Some Virtual FireworX

By Timothy R. Butler | Posted at 3:29 PM

This time last year, we inaugurated the Tim's Gadgets column by looking at Skyrocket Software's excellent Digital FireworX (review) screen saver and stand alone application. Digital FireworX was and is an impressive screensaver that displays the largest collection of simulated fireworks I have encountered anywhere. But, what if it could get even better?

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Jun 20, 2005

Spam Fighting Part 1: Ethics and Morals

By Ed Hurst | Posted at 8:21 PM

I love SPAM. No, really, I do. I buy it in the six pack from a wholesale club, and in a couple of days can eat a whole can of it by myself. You know, that pink stuff made by Hormel -- yummy! The other kind of spam nobody wants. Okay, 95% of Internet users don't want it, according to surveys. That kind of spam is also referred to as Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) or Unsolicited Bulk Email (UBE).

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Jun 15, 2005

PR: Mandriva Buys Lycoris Assets

By Staff Staff | Posted at 5:40 PM

Mandriva, formerly known as Mandrakesoft, the publisher of the popular Mandriva Linux distribution, today announced an agreement to purchase several assets from Lycoris, a major North American Linux distribution for home users. As part of this agreement, Lycoris' founder and CEO Joseph Cheek is joining Mandriva to develop a new and advanced Linux desktop product.

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Jun 06, 2005

Another Life for Tiger?

By Timothy R. Butler | Posted at 3:40 PM

Sure, it has been rumored for years. Sure, any technology observer even slightly familiar with Apple knew that Mac OS X had been run in house on Intel. But, Apple parting ways with the processor it has spent all of these years promoting? If Apple was a few millennia older, without doubt this would have been prophesied as a sign of the apocalypse. The real apocalypse may not be here yet, but the computing world has just seen one of the biggest earthshaking announcements in years. Now Apple faces one of the hardest projects ever put forward for a computer company in its position: keeping backward compatibility.

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Jun 04, 2005

Meet Apple's Nessie PC: On Rumors of Apple's Switch to Intel

By Timothy R. Butler | Posted at 4:25 PM

Having read the CNet News.com story about Apple's supposed impending switch to x86, let me propose an excellent code name for this forthcoming system: “Nessie.” Like Nessie's namesake Loch Ness Monster, the rumor of Mac OS on x86 rings of the stuff of tabloids, not something that people take seriously. Of course, that leaves us to ask what we are to make of it when one of the most respectable online computer news sources, News.com, reports as virtual fact that Apple will be switching to Intel, and the story apparently seems credible enough to get Reuters to pick it up.

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Apr 27, 2005

Desktop FreeBSD: New Life for Old Laptops

By Ed Hurst | Posted at 9:51 PM
Ever looking for new ways to bring older hardware to life, OfB associate editor Ed Hurst now aims his focus at keeping aging laptops alive and kicking with FreeBSD 5.4. Ed not only reports on how to keep that old system alive, but also finds that the latest technology can work fairly well on older generation systems.
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Apr 25, 2005

Of Course Macs Are More Expensive... Aren't They?

By Staff Staff | Posted at 3:01 PM

In the case of the Macintosh pricing versus PC pricing, the errors have led to the general impression that comparable PC's are cheaper than comparable Macs. Now, I won't debate whether or not that's always been the case, but I will state categorically that it ain't true today and hasn't been for the last 2-3 years.

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Apr 13, 2005

PR: Adobe Reader 7 Now Included in Linspire

By Staff Staff | Posted at 4:50 PM

“Adobe Reader 7.0 for Linux provides desktop Linux users another important tool for daily use on par with Windows and Mac users,” said Michael Robertson, CEO of Linspire, Inc. “Adobe pioneered document sharing and secure collaboration across operating systems. More and more, major software vendors are seeing the value in creating cross-platform versions of their software for Linux. Adobe's advanced support shows its understanding of the viability of the desktop Linux market.”

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