Philipp Höhn

Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical (the firm behind Ubuntu), intimated in his blog that there are “no negotiations with Microsoft in progress.” That’’s good news, isn’t it?
After firms of other Linux distributions such as Novell, Xandros and Linspire started cooperating with Microsoft, generally understood as related to Microsoft’’s unfounded patent menaces, rumours [...]

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Issue #1 of the full circle magazine has been released. Although until now there’’s only an English version available, other languages are coming soon. Feel free to download Issue #1!
“This issue includes:

Installing Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
Howtos: Linux directory structure, MythTV, Scribus, and more
Interview with Deluge BitTorrent Client developer
News, reviews, and much more!”

If you”d like to contribute [...]

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Microsoft announced support for a Chinese Open Source project. The Beihang University at Beijing together with several other Chinese institutions is currently working on a translation of the Chinese Unified Office Format (UOF) into Microsoft’s debatable OOXML format, and vice versa. Open XML to UOF Translator, as the new application will be called, is going [...]

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Pidgin, the successor of Gaim, has been released in version 2.0.0.
“In addition to the new name, this release features extraordinary enhancements to features and functionality over the previous release.”
(pidgin.im)
According to moderators from the ubuntuforums Pidgin will be part of Feisty’s repository soon meaning we hopefully won’t have to wait for the next Ubuntu release in [...]

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