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Google85 writes:
The OpenOffice.org Project has unveiled a major restructuring that separates itself from Oracle and that takes responsibility for OpenOffice away from a single company.
From now on, OpenOffice's development and direction will be decided by a steering committee of developers and national language project managers.
Driving home the changes, OpenOffice.org project is now The Document Foundation while the OpenOffice.org suite has been given the temporary name of LibreOffice.
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Google85 writes:
from the We're-definitely-not-in-Topeka-anymore dept.
Topeka Mayor William Bunten issued a proclamation declaring that, for the month of March, the Kansas capital would be known as "Google, Kansas — the capital city of fibre optics".
The name changes comes in a bid to convince google to choose the city for their FiOS experiment.
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Google85 writes:
Chuck Norris sued publisher Penguin on Friday over a book he claims unfairly exploits his famous name, based on a satirical Internet list of "mythical facts" about him.
The book capitalizes on "mythical facts" that have been circulating on the Internet since 2005 that poke fun at Norris' tough-guy image and super-human abilities, the suit said.
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Google85 writes:
Slysoft has announced they cracked BD+, the extra copy-protection layer in Blu-ray.
The Inquirer has an English translation of the report
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Google85 writes:
In an interview with fortune magazine, Bill Watkins, Seagate's CEO, said Seagate wasn't changing the world. Instead it is making products that let people buy more crap and watch porn.
he also discusses segate's upcoming product line including a terabyte drive out by the summer
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Google85 writes:
I was visiting Gentoo's website when suddenly it got hacked! visiting gentoo.org gives a page called "Baumanns Eingangsportal".
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Google85 writes:
The Ubuntu team has announced the release of Ubuntu Linux 6.10.
from the press release: "The desktop version introduces a host of new features, an improved interface and a wide variety of new applications and desktop tools making Ubuntu 6.10 flexible and user-friendly. Enhancements include:
* Tomboy, an easy-to-use and efficient note-taking tool
* F-Spot, a photo management tool that enables tagging, photo editing and automatic uploading to on-line web management sites such as Flickr
* GNOME 2.16, which in addition to new features such as enhanced power management, makes the GNOME desktop more secure, faster and more stable
* Upstart, a replacement start-up manager offering a cleaner design, eye-catching effects and a substantially faster boot time
* The latest Firefox web browser, which offers inline spell check support in web forms, easy recovery of crashed sessions, built-in phishing detectors, enhanced search engine management with built in OpenSearch support, and better support for previewing and subscribing to web feeds
* Proactive security features, preventing many common security vulnerabilities even before they are discovered
* Evolution 2.8.0, which brings new features such as vertical message panes"
you can Download (MD5): ubuntu-6.10-desktop-i386.iso (698MB), ubuntu-6.10-desktop-amd64.iso (691MB).
Kubuntu 6.10 has also been released, Download (MD5): kubuntu-6.10-desktop-i386.iso (695MB), kubuntu-6.10-desktop-amd64.iso (698MB).
