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Submission + - Microsoft-Linspire agreement (linspire.com)

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nikostheater

on Thursday June 14, 2007 @05:56AM

nikostheater writes: "Linspire and Microsoft signed and agreemend concerning Interoperability and the usual patent covenant,with the difference that the customer must want to puchase some windows technologies along with the patent SKU. It seems that Microsoft is hunting Distributions lately...GPL3 must be their nightmare.."

HardOCP Spends 30 Days With MacOSX 708

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday June 05, 2007 @11:23AM from the i'm-going-on-several-thousands-of-days-with-xp dept.

boyko.at.netqos writes "Hardocp.com has published "30 days with MacOSX" — with the same author from "30 days with Linux" and "30 days with Vista" doing the evaluation. Ultimately he likes the stability and security but other concerns keep him from recommending it. From the article: 'The hardware lock-in and lack of quality freeware makes owning and maintaining a Macintosh an expensive endeavor ... Mac OS X has some amazing capabilities, but you spend a lot of money. Indeed, it seems the preferred method for solving Mac computer problems is to buy your way out of it. Slow computer? Buy a new one. Want to convert a file? Buy a utility. Want to do simple tasks? Buy a commercial program. Peripherals don't work? Buy replacements.'"

OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X Alpha Released! 251

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday June 05, 2007 @08:41AM from the copy-and-paste-how-do-you-break-that dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Nearly 6 years after announcing a Mac port, OpenOffice.org has released the first release of OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X that can finally run without X11!! An alpha is available for download today, but a lot of help is still needed to make OpenOffice.org available for Mac OS X. The site is very blunt: 'WARNING: THIS SOFTWARE MAY CRASH AND MAY DESTROY YOUR DATA DO NOT USE THIS SOFTWARE FOR REAL WORK IN A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT. This is an alpha test version so that developers and users can find out what works and not, and make comments on how to improve it.' Currently missing functionality includes printing, pdf export, copy/pasting, and multiple monitors. That said, if you're interested in participating you can visit the Mac team to figure out how you can help today."

Submission + - Gentoo 2007.0 LiveCD's and LiveDVD's released

Submitted by

bunbuntheminilop

on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @02:53AM

bunbuntheminilop writes: "Gentoo Linux 2007.0, codenamed "Secret Sauce" has been announced and released onto LiveCD and LiveDVD. Even though most Gentoo users update without a CD, this release gives a rewritten installer, meaning it's now easier to install Gentoo. Stages for some unusual arcitectures are included, such as the SuperH. The LiveCD's also come with GNOME 2.16.2, KDE 3.5.5, Xfce 4.4, Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3, OpenOffice.org 2.1.0, and the 2.6.19 Linux kernel.

LiveCD's and LiveDVD's can be downloaded from the Gentoo Project website or as a torrent."

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