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Comment Not a stupid rumour, but reality (Score 1) 4

by Freggy on Friday September 25, 2009 @02:38PM (#29542293) Attached to: Firefox forbidden by the public services of Wallon

Here's a reference: http://www.informaticien.be/news_item-7978-L_administration_wallonne_interdit_Firefox.html Also confirmed by the Belgian IT newspaper DataNews, which quotes the manager of the IT department responsible of this decision: http://www.datanews.be/nl/90-9-26228/article.html?cid=rss#90;9;26228

Submission + - Apple locks out competitors from trailers site

Submitted by Freggy on Monday August 24, 2009 @04:57PM

Freggy writes: Since a few days, Apple has been deliberately locking out people using other movie player than Quicktime from their trailer site, even if they are technically capable of playing the movie fine. This change has affected amongst others the multimedia framework Gstreamer, which is used by the popular Totem video player.

Submission + - Mandriva 2009 Spring released (mandriva.com)

Submitted by

Frederik

on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @04:33PM

Frederik writes: "Mandriva just released the 2009 Spring version of its distribution. Highlights of this new version include vastly improved boot times thanks to Speedboot, KDE 4.2.2, GNOME 2.26.1, XFCE 4.6 and LXDE desktop environments, a completely rewritten Mandriva Security Centre and improved firewall and network configuration tools, OLPC Sugar environment, QT Creator development environment, Songbird audio player, ext4 support and many more. Check out the release tour and release notes for more information or immediately start downloading it."

Comment How could they know? (Score 1) 267

by Freggy on Friday August 08, 2008 @04:56AM (#24522089) Attached to: MediaSentry Hired By People's Republic of China

I wonder if the Chinese government is aware of MediaSentry's track record â" i.e. all the good things it has accomplished so far for the Big 4 record companies

No, that news was probably censored in China.

Submission + - Mandriva: An open letter to Steve Ballmer (mandriva.com)

Submitted by

Freggy

on Thursday November 01, 2007 @06:59AM

Freggy writes: "The Nigerian government recently chose the Intel Classmate PC and Mandriva for an educational project. The PC will be used in local Nigerian schools by teachers, parents and students all over the country. The Classmate PC was selected by the Nigerian government in spite of a competitive offer by Microsoft, because of its openness and customization possibilities. Now it seems the Nigerian government is replacing Linux by Windows on the Classmate PC, although they payed for the Mandriva software. Mandriva CEO François Bancilhon has written an open letter to Steve Ballmer complaining of Microsoft's "unethical" behaviour. The letter remains pretty vague though, so we can only guess what really happened."

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