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Submission + - Bugzilla Virtualized

Submitted by on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @12:37PM

An anonymous reader writes: Virtual Bugzilla Server 2.0, a VMWare virtual machine with pre-installed Bugzilla, has been released today by ALM Works. The point is to let people have Bugzilla ready for use just by downloading and running the VM, not bothering with the installation, especially on Windows. Inside the VM there's the latest Bugzilla 3.0 release candidate, running on grml.org Linux distribution with Apache/MySQL. The whole thing is compressed into 80 megabytes. A free VMWare player is needed to run the server.

Submission + - South Africa joins countries switching to OSS

Submitted by on Thursday February 22, 2007 @05:06PM

An anonymous reader writes: According to reports by Reuters and IOL, the South African government has officially announced that all government departments are to switch to Open Source operating systems and software from this year onwards. There is no word on how long the process will take (likely years), but a joint office to be run by the Department of Science and Technology and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) will be set up by April to oversee the process.

Submission + - MS attacks it's own DRM

Submitted by

morlock_man

on Thursday February 22, 2007 @04:44PM

morlock_man writes: "Despite claiming to support the PlaysForSure DRM into the indefinite Future, MS has apparently broken the DRM compatibility with Windows Media Player 11 and Vista. A number of reports are coming in from companies working with the DRM that attempts at playing any music licensed through the PFS DRM under Vista consistently produce errors. Is this an oversight on Microsoft's part? Or are they attempting to cripple their licensed DRM system in favour of supporting their own proprietary Zune business model? Can you say 'Antitrust'?"

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