New chat-service from Google called Google Talk
Google has new launched a new chat-service called Google Talk which uses the open XMPP format to communicate between clients. Linux users can use Google Talk using existing open-source applications like PSI and Gaim even though only a Windows-version of their official client is available.
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aKademy 2005 promises a bright future for KDE uses
The news from the KDE developer conference KDE is beaming in and shows a great bright future for KDE-users everywhere. Novell svore loyalty to Linux, the Kolab Groupware Solution and the long-awaited Kiosk desktop management framework was presented and the shape of KDE 4.0 determined.
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Mupper v3.0 Rescue-CD for pegasos computers available
Mupper is a rescue live-CD project for PegasosPPC based on Gentoo Linux. It has all the important tools like parted and midnight-commander and it supports all common filesystems like FAT, VFAT, ReiserFS, XFS and EXT3 (but not SFS).
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SUSE Linux 10.0 OSS Beta 2 has been released
SUSE has now announced that SUSE Linux 8.2 is dead and discontiniued. SUSE Linux 10.0 OSS Beta 2 is now released and available from opensuse.org
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MAMBO developers leave to start their own branch of the project after hostile disbute
The core developers of the Open Source content management system Mambo are now leaving the project after it was indicated that the (GNU) Copyright holder Miro International are way more concerned with increasing their profit margin than doing any actual work on the project.
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Gentoo-Wiki to hit 10 million page-views
The official Wikipedia project is growing rapidly, and so are niche Wiki-projects. The Gentoo-wiki will reach 10 million page views in 4 or 5 days.
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Gentoo Linux 2005.1 Experimental Live CD available with GUI installer
This is the first version of Gentoo to feature a graphical installer which in theory guides the user painlessly through the installation process.
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OpenSUSE project pages now available
Novell are now attempting to create a community around SUSE Linux. "The project also opens the development process for SUSE Linux by giving the open source community access to the review, testing and development of the SUSE Linux distribution.?, says Novell.
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Novell has now revelaed to their future plans for SuSE Linux and they are excellent.
They will make a SuSE clone called OpenSuSE Linux which will be based on SUSE Professional and developed after the open model used by the successful RedHat distribution Fedora.
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What seems like a million new blogs are added to the Internet by the second now that everybody with half a brain can sign up at a free blog service and publicly humiliate themselves forever. You can even cheaply hire people to write blogs for you. Now mobile-blogging has made a adult entertainer Norways most popular celebrity blogger.
Mobile-Photo-blogs is the latest new thing, blogs where you simply send a picture-SMS photo from your phone and instantly share it on your blog. The adult entertainer Aylar has a mobile-blog which out-competes all other celebrities.
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