Maybe because this isn't a simple software update. Once again, Apple is using its automatic update process to deliver massive amounts of new software to users, including a device driver that has a long and checkered history of causing the Blue Screen Of Death to appear.

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Desktop drapes is a wallpaper manager application for the gnome desktop. It can randomly changing your wallpaper every once in a while, or whenever you fell like it. It can also automaticaly pickup any wallpapers you added to a directory with the ninja magic of inotify.

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My Guru Labs coworker mentioned something to me today, that our boss mentioned to him (or a class, who knows), and that is that every operating system turns to Unix eventually. Thinking about this for a second, he's right.

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At the recent GNOME User and Developer European Conference (GUADEC), the GNOME release team announced a proposal for developing the next major iteration of the open source desktop environment.

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OK, I've now tried KDE 4.1. I'd been assured that it would be better than KDE 4.0x. It is. That's the good news. The bad news is that I still find KDE 4.1 to be inferior to KDE 3.5x.

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The KDE project saw the writing on the wall.

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The following is a true story. Last week I walked into a local "home style cookin' restaurant/watering hole" to pick up a take out order. I spoke briefly to the waitress behind the counter, who told me my order would be done in a few minutes.

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1983. The year of the IBM PC XT, the Apple Lisa, Pioneer 10 leaving the solar system, and Hooters opening up shop in Florida. It's also the birthyear of a 25 year old BSD bug, squashed only a few days ago.

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The 145 systems are:- 3 Dos 5 Windows 137 Linux

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The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the second release candidate for KDE 4.0. This release candidate marks the last mile on the road to KDE 4.0.

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What is raptor? Raptor is a an amazing project i have been working in the last few days. It trays to be a fresh new way of finding your desktop applications, and interacting with its users.

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he widespread acceptance of open source continues to grow as a cost-effective alternative to traditional network deployments.

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We've all heard it. "[Insert open-source OS] has no good games." You know they are wrong. But what do you do?

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In an email to openbsd-misc, Theo de Raddt (founder and lead of the OpenBSD project) writes: Various developers are busy implimenting workarounds for serious bugs in Intel's Core 2 cpu.

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Whenever people thinks of a free operating system if they do , the odds are that they will think of Linux, a clone of UNIX from 1991. They also might think of one or more of the BSDs, UNIX-derivatives dating back to the early 80s. Let s face it, though UNIX is pretty boring.

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A lengthy debate that began with a suggestion to dual license the Linux kernel under the GPLv2 and the GPLv3 [story] continues on the Linux Kernel Mailing List.

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GNU/Linux is the most popular operating system built with free/open source software. However, it is not the only one: FreeBSD is also becoming popular for its stability, robustness and security. In this article, I'll take a look at their similarities and differences.

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Updates to vim-common and vim-tiny

Version 1:7.0-164+1ubuntu7.1: * SECURITY UPDATE: arbitrary code execution via modelines * upstream/patches/7.0.234, upstream/patches/7.0.235: upstream fixes. * References CVE-2007-2438

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Looking for a way to limit users' functionality on a publicly available machine, such as a kiosk machine for conference attendees? No one wants people trying to alter their systems for fun or malice.

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Some LUG members felt "distro" implies Linux, while others took a wider view, claiming it could be any one of several possible platforms, including OpenSolaris.

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Yes, everyone has a friend which is a Linux Fanboy; he keep saying as a slogans dispenser: "Linux is good, Linux is stable, Linux is cool", but there is a dark side…

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OpenBSD's IPv6 mbufs remote kernel buffer overflow

This just hit the web at large from CoreLabs Advisory, Core Security Technologies,

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If you need something that does nothing, you will be hard pressed to find some.thing better, faster or smaller than NaDa. Works will all os's even those not invented yet. New version is completely bug free, probably.

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Are you looking for a desktop on which you can run Linux® or other open-source operating systems? Look no further!

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A tongue-in-cheek look at the history and future of the BSD movement. Modeled after the presentation styles of Lessig and Hardt, the talk ...

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