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Developers Fork Mandriva Linux, Creating Mageia 206

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday September 18, 2010 @11:50AM from the onward-and-upward dept.

Anssi55 writes "As most of the Mandriva employees working on the Linux distribution were laid off due to the liquidation of Edge-IT (a subsidiary of Mandriva SA) and trust in the company has diminished, the development community (including the core developers) has decided to fork the project. The new Linux distribution, named Mageia, will be managed by a not-for-profit organization that will be set up in the coming days. There are already many people that have decided to follow the fork, but the people behind it are still welcoming any help offered in the various tasks related to establishing the new distribution."

Feed Ars Technica: Galaxy Tab coming to all US carriers; no pricing yet, no 4G (arstechnica.com)

From feed by feedfeeder on Thursday September 16, 2010 @08:32PM

iPad watch out: Samsung is gunning to take over the tablet market. The company announced during a press conference late Thursday that the recently announced Galaxy Tab would be launching on all four major US cellular networks—Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, and T-Mobile—and a WiFi-only option will be available soon. There won't be any 4G-capable devices at launch, however (only 3G), and Samsung is remaining mum on pricing.

As the company announced earlier this month, the device will run Android 2.2 (aka, Froyo) and will be able to play Adobe Flash content in the browser. Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch demoed Flash on the Galaxy Tab during the press conference, pointing out that users will be able to view embedded video and games just like they would on a personal computer. The Tab will also come with both front- and rear-facing cameras—a 3MP autofocus camera on the back with LED flash that can do still photos and "DVD quality videos," and a 1.3MP fixed focus camera on the front for video chatting. And, of course, the Tab comes with support for up to 32GB MicroSD cards in addition to its 16GB of internal storage. These are all features that the iPad currently lacks.

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Comment Re:RIM job (Score 1) 109

by Jaggu19 on Tuesday August 31, 2010 @02:06AM (#33423714) Attached to: RIM Reaches Temporary Agreement With India

... the ability to access private communications without any sort of check or balance and without a court order.

Cite sources please ... there is nothing in the news that says it happens unlawfully. If, however, the _law_ says that it can be done without a court order (and with the Indian equivalent of a National Security Letter) - then why not ?!

Verizon Refuses To Provide Complete IPv6 438

Posted by kdawson on Sunday October 04, 2009 @08:12PM from the no-routing-around-it dept.

Glendale2x writes "I'm a progressive sort of guy and I want to go full dual-stack, IPv6 for the future, etc. However I recently tried to turn up a new Verizon circuit with IPv6 (after a 6-month fiber install process), and to my chagrin the order they accepted back in May they're now saying is against their policy to provide. They're missing around 29% of the IPv6 internet and refuse to carry it. Tell me again how we're supposed to encourage IPv6 adoption in the face of a huge black hole like this?"

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