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Submission + - The Linux Desktop in 2007

Submitted by

Marcion

on Sunday January 07, 2007 @03:29PM

Marcion writes: "While other platforms will have to deal with upgrade issues involving Vista and OS X Jaguar, for the Linux desktop, 2007 promises to be a year of consolidation and expansion, a year where many of the long standing problems get resolved. My blog article covers 3D effects, a resurgence of Java in the open source world, improved wireless support, refugees from Windows Vista and whether Adobe will open source Flash."

Submission + - Wii Opera Vulnerability

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07, 2007 @02:42PM

An anonymous reader writes: The Wii seems to be susceptible to the same Opera SVG vulnerability as Windows and Linux as shown here. Right now it just crashes the system but hopefully this will yield a route for code execution and maybe eventually home brew software.

Submission + - KHTML (aka Safari) on Windows: Swift releases 0.2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07, 2007 @02:24PM

An anonymous reader writes: Last time I wrote about Safari for Windows (Win32) it was when a real port of WebKit was released. The problem was that the project quickly died, I think the main developer for the project did not have the time to work on this...I now see that there is a version 0.2 of Swift, I am not sure if it is the same people who is working on porting WebKit aka Safari for Windows or if it is them same developer. Does anyone have info on this? Screenshot of the browser (new window)

Submission + - Reading a DVD with VLC is illegal in France

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07, 2007 @02:17PM

An anonymous reader writes: Starting December 31st 2006, reading a DVD protected with CSS (as most DVD are) is illegal in France when it is done with software allowing to circumvent the protection, such as VLC or mplayer which can both use the libdvdcss library. This Journal Officiel (where laws and executive orders are published) says that you may be fined 135 (around $180) for doing so. This includes watching any DVD that you have legally purchased.

Submission + - Men who love Linux are Sexier

Submitted by

caluml

on Sunday January 07, 2007 @01:16PM

caluml writes: "A female's tongue-in-cheek look at men who love Linux finds some interesting results. Among them are: We're passionate (and that rubs off in the bedroom too), not shy about spending our earnings, are problem-solvers, and are deep thinkers.

We need to make sure sites that lots of women read know about this!"

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