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What Were Slashdot's Most Popular Stories of 2021? 16
New Microsoft Surface Hardware Is Arriving Tomorrow 73
Introducing Slashdot's New Build Section 34
Amazon Announces 'Fire Phone' 192
Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! 2219
Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) 1191
Experience the New Slashdot Mobile Site 384
Wikimedia Foundation Launches Wikivoyage 47
Thanks For Reading: 15 Years of News For Nerds 229
Reminder: Slashdot Anniversary Meetups, Free T-Shirts 46
Slashdot Turns 15, What Are You Doing Later? 247
Want to Change the Slashdot Logo? For 1 Day in October, You Can 128
Help Shape the Future of Slashdot 763
Obama Sets End of Iraq Combat For August 31st 659
Linux Kernel 2.6.35 Released 159
Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday 701
Rock Band 3 Officially Announced For Holiday 2010 76
VLC Team Announces Video Editor In the Works 120
OpenSSH Going Strong After 10 Years With Release of v5.3 249
Apple Announces iTunes 9, "LPs," Video Camera For the iPod Nano 521
ESA Sent Takedown Notices For 45 Million Infringements In Fiscal 2009 81
Canonical Fully Open-Sources the Launchpad Code 104
Netflix Prize May Have Been Achieved 83
Linux To Be First OS To Support USB 3.0 296
Wikipedia Launches a New Mobile Interface, Seeks Help 70
Linux.com Relaunched Under New Management 70
FreeBSD 7.2 Released 204
Ubuntu 9.04 RC Released 239
Fermilab Not Dead Yet, Discovers Rare Single Top Quark 194
Linux Foundation Purchases Linux.com 231
Creative Commons Releases "Zero" License 209
Shuttleworth Announces Karmic Koala 305
Slashdot.org Self-Slashdotted 388
The MST3K Crew Reunites For Live Webcast 60
Gen Con Goes Up For Sale 34
Theora 1.0 Released, Supported By Firefox 310
ASUS and Intel Launch Collaborative PC Design Site 85
Permanent Links For US Legislation Documents 42
Fluorescent Protein Research Lands Scientists Nobel Prize 79
Particle Physicists Share the Physics Nobel 67
GNOME 2.24 Released 163
Mayor Orders Mandatory Evacuation of New Orleans 712
ACM OSR Linux Issue Available For Free Download 18
Listen Online To Last HOPE Conference 49
Release Team Proposes Gnome 3.0 Plans 306
NetBSD Moves To a 2-Clause BSD License 67
George Carlin Dead of Heart Failure 583
Codemasters Receives Exclusive Formula One Rights 48
Games For Change Holds 5th Annual Festival 13
Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released 218
id Software Announces Doom 4 425
OpenBSD 4.3 Released 69
2008 Turing Award Winners Announced 66
Mass OLPC Production Begins 167
New Network Neutrality Squad — Users Protecting the Net 168
NC State Creates Most Powerful Positron Beam Ever 214
Mark Webbink Joins Software Freedom Law Center 10
Ubuntu Hardy Heron Announced 511
Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Announced 463
Did We Really Need Seven New Wonders? 324
Easy-to-Make Material Scratches Diamond 213
Fran Allen Wins Turing Award 79
Ethernet Creator Makes the Inventors Hall of Fame 45
Linux Kernel Devs Offer Free Driver Development 348
Help Choose the Best Tech Writing of 2007 15
"Dracula's Castle" For Sale In Romania 167
SCALE 5x Opens For Registration 13
Hybrids Beware? EPA Revises Mileage Standards 550
"Sysadmin of the Year" Winners Announced 206
"Revenge of the Nerds" Remake Cancelled 193
Peter Quinn To Keynote ODF Workshop at SCALE 4x 6
Linux Symposium Issues CFP 36
GIMP 10th Anniversary Splash Contest Winner Announced 253
New, Modularized X Window Release Now Available for Download 456
New Mammal Species Found in Borneo 363
Libranet On The Rocks 152
Dapper Drake Hits Ubuntu Servers 259
NetBSD 2.1 Released 109
Nokia Starts Open Source Website 80
Apple Unveils New Pro Products 590
OpenBSD Turns 10 61
Mandriva Linux 2006 Released 190
Microsoft to Ship New Malware Protection Utility 226
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded 114
German Linux Migration White Paper Updated 122
Free Gentoo Technical Support 209
Video Game Industry to Sue Michigan's Governor 505
First Episode of NerdTV Released 165
OpenSSH 4.2 released 183
Ohio Linux Festival 2005 90
Mambo Changes its Name to Joomla! 235
2.6.13 Linux Kernel Released 464
Earth's Core Spins Faster than Earth 309
BSD Certification Group Releases Roadmap 87
Google Releases GDS 2.0 789
V For Vendetta Delayed until March 2006 302
LSB Project Seeks Input at Annual Meeting 17
Where is the British EFF? Just Around the Corner! 205
Governing the Internet Report Released 344
Leap Second This Year 107
New FreeBSD Logo Contest to Close on June 30 42
ApacheCon 2005 Comes to Europe 7
MIT Physicists Create New Form of Matter 316
Google Maps Now Cover Whole World 357
U.S. to Digitize All Tangible Gov't. Publications 121
A RAW repository, The Internet Archive and OpenRAW 146
PHRACK Final 122
Researching Open Source 84
GUADEC Streams and Archives Online 47
8th Annual ICFP Contest 72
BBS Documentary Now Shipping 280
High-Resolution Brain Atlases in CyberSpace 10
Google's New Personalized Homepage 411
OpenBSD 3.7 Released 325
Free STIX Fonts to be Released in September 27
Goblet of Fire Teaser Trailer Released 336
FreeBSD 5.4 Released 268
EuroBSDCon '05 - Call For Papers 5
Linuxfest Northwest 2005 Webcast 5
OpenLaszlo 3.0 Announced 40
Image Preservation Through Open Documentation 193
Opera CEO Prepares to Swim across the Atlantic 432
Lyrics to OpenBSD 3.7 Song Released 65
Drupal 4.6.0 Released 38
Apache 2.0.54 Released 25
Galactic Pancake Mystery Solved 117
ICANN Officially Approves .jobs and .travel TLD's 263
Hoary Hedgehog Ubuntu 5.04 Released 474
Yahoo! Search Providing Support to Wikipedia 130
Google Ride Finder Announced 349
EU Funds New FLOSS Survey on Skills, Employment 166
New Kernel Developer Blog 11
Open Source Social Bookmarking Service 263
AutoPackaging for Linux 623
FLISOL: Simultaneous Install Fest in 100+ Cities 13
BitMover Releases Open Source BitKeeper Client 255
OpenBSD CVS RAID Array Failing, Needs Replacement 164
SkypeIn Reaches Beta Users 124
Gentoo UK Developer's Conference Streamed Live 19
Chess Master Kasparov To Retire 320
Gnome 2.10 Released 526
Linux.conf.au Coming Soon 150
Breakthrough in solar photovoltaics 676
KDE 3.4 RC1 Released 310
The 2005 Wired Rave Awards 151
Firefox 1.0.1 Released 617
Dutch Say No to Software Patent Directive 363
Google Donating Bandwidth and Servers to Wikipedia 451
NetBSD Online Store Opens 24
Knuth's Art of Computer Programming Vol. 4 289
Sir Tim Berners-Lee Named Greatest Briton 217
Ubuntu Linux Live CD Release 334
International Free Software Forum Call For Papers 5
FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE Available 25
UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference 2
Slackware 10.1 Beta And Pat's Health 151
Robert Zemeckis to Direct Beowulf Movie 206
What The Hack? 11
Scientific Appeal to Community 27
Linux.conf.au 2005 Registrations Open 11
CodeCon 2005 Program Now Available 5
Top 25 Innovations of the Past 25 Years 624
Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference 2005 11
TiVo to Go Released 238
5th HOPE Conference Audio Online 9
FreeBSD Foundation Passes '04 Small Donation Needs 84
Opera Browser Beta Adds Voice, More 369
FreeBSD Foundation Needs Cash For 501(c)3 Status 101
FOSDEM 2005 Speakers List Available 6
Jeopardy! Whiz Becomes Encarta Spokesman 339
AbiWord 2.2 Unleashed 344
Linux Asia 2005 Conference and Expo 5
21C3 Conference 'Fahrplan' Released 9
66.3 Million Domain Names Registered 179
Linux 2.4.28 Kernel Released 47
Solaris 10 Released, Updated & Free (Like Speech) 363
FTC P2P Deadline For Public Comments 13
CBLDF Auction with Sim & Gaiman 72
SCALE 3x Registration Now Open 3
Fred Nilsson Leaves id Software 21
Trustix Secure Linux 2.2 Released 13
Zope X3 3.0.0 Released 229
FreeBSD Looks Ahead to 6.0 68
Supporting Community Projects 88
WoW Street Date Announced 91
On Family Gaming Past Present and Future 23
New List For Linux in Government Initiatives 7
OpenBSD 3.6 Released! 194
FreeBSD 5.3 RC2 Released 150
Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official Has Arrived 20
TCCBOOT Compiles And Boots Linux In 15 Seconds 342
GForge 4.0 Released 23
Sony Quietly Opening Retail Stores 382
Xandros Recruiting Beta Testers 155
Ubuntu 4.10 ('The Warty Warthog') Released 51
FreeBSD 5.3 Release Candidate Released 135
Lit Window Library 0.3 released 29
ApacheCon 2004 Registration Open 7
UIUC Holds 10th annnual Reflections | Projections 8
Dell Recalls Millions of AC Adaptors 288
Google Launches SMS Search Service 239
FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 Released; 5.3-RELEASE Soon 76
NetBSD 2.0RC2 Released 56
Apache 2.0.52 Released 16
Open Source Speech Recognition - With Source 404
NetBSD Goodies: 2.0 RC1 Tagged, New pkgsrc Branch 55
Google Local Launched In Canada 173
Toorcon - 20 Years after Big Brother 7
FORTRAN 2003 Accepted as Standard 59
Beer Found to be as Healthy as Wine 517
Ubuntu Linux Preview Released 271
Apache httpd 2.0.51 Released 15
Asia's Biggest Network Security Con, Oct 4-7 11
Faster Updates for DNS Root Servers Arrive 150
Slashdot Goes Political: Announcing politics.slashdot.org 1045
Ars Electronica : Biggest New Media Festival 47
Java Specification Request on Community Currencies 112
Mandrake 10.1 RC1 Available 6
openMosix Summit 2005 Announced 8
Internet2 Speed Record Broken 344
IOCCC Winners Announced 175
Linux USB-Driver: initial release of vp-usb-lock 15
Europe Launches Open Source Forum 5
Top Banned Books of 2003 1033
Call For Papers: Chaos Communication Congress 2004 5
MIT Names First Female President 540
OhioLinuxfest 2004 Gearing Up 11
First UK Meeting For Gentoo Devs & Users 11
Hotmail Means to Double Gmail Storage 616
South Pole Research Station Hacked Twice 292
PowerBook G4 Battery Recall 337
Two New Saturnian Moons 215
SHA-0 Broken, MD5 Rumored Broken 707
Low Level Virtual Machine 1.3 Released 46
2nd Swiss Unix Conference 7
Munich Posts Want Ad - Seeking Linux Experts 17
Munich to Go Ahead with Linux After All 142
DEFCON WiFi Shootout Winners Set A Land Record 161
Helix Player and RealPlayer 10 Released 323
System Administrator Appreciation Day 372
TopCoder Open 2004 Programming Tournament 42
DNA Pioneer Francis Crick Passes Away 247
Linux Picnic Follows LinuxWorld SF 5
Bash 3.0 Released 507
aKademy Team Announces International Lineup 83
AT&T to Leave Residential Business 194
Quantum Computing Using Traditional Transistors 323
FAA Approves Sport Pilot License 520
That's Sir Tim to You 249
Fifth HOPE Conference Underway 184

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