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Open Source

Getting Started Contributing Back To Open Source 99

markfreeman writes "The one burning need I have felt over the last year was to get involved with open source as a contributor. I have wanted to help with documentation, advocacy, and most of all, with programming. Here's the story of how I got started, thanks to openhatch.org (which calls itself 'an open source involvement engine') and how you can too."
Ubuntu

Ubuntu Linux 10.04 Review (Lucid Lynx) 567

JimLynch writes "The open source world has been eagerly anticipating the final release of Ubuntu Linux 10.04, and now it's finally here. Canonical has been working extremely hard and it shows in the quality of this release."
Businesses

Does HP + Palm = Facepalm? 236

ChiefMonkeyGrinder submitted a bit of commentary on yesterday's news that Hewlett-Packard was buying Palm. From TFA: "When I first read the news that HP was buying Palm for $1.2 billion, my first reaction was that HP had lost its marbles ('clueless' was how I tweeted it). Why, I wondered, did it need to pay $1.2 billion for a dying platform when it could have used the increasingly popular Android for nothing? (OK, it probably picked up a few useful patents, as well.) I also thought that it didn't have the resources to enter the extremely competitive area of smartphones."
Software

Submission + - Dictionary Software Comparison (theultimatefive.com)

Asaf.Zamir writes: There aren't many choices for software Dictionaries out there,
It is quite strange if you think of the amount of people using a Dictionary software.
The top one is without a doubt Babylon.
as you can see on the comparison chart, it takes the lot.

Comment Re:and end to cancer in our life time (Score 1) 97

We have already hit the biological age limitation a long time ago, every time we cure a disease that's suppose to kill someone. Unless you are referring to a time where our bodies would actually fall apart which I think would be solved not too long from now (parts of the DNA do have data referring to the "age" of the cells, as in, what generation are they, and it's being researched pretty heavily but it seems that not too long from now they'll find a way to stop the aging process completely). How about that, living a couple of hundreds of years, now that would be a change in the human perspective.

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