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KDE CE RC1 Delayed This has been (mainly) because of a problem with localization – downloaded languages did not install. Even with a DVD sized ISO we can’t have all language packs in the ISO – bandwidth comes with a prize.

We get an increasing amount of spam in the forum (we are popular :)) but it’s becoming quite a nuisance….

* News about Linux

KDE 4.1 released

Google Gadgets for Linux

RealPlayer update fixes critical security holes which are for Linux as well

Launchpad to become open source in the next 12 months

Shuttleworth challenges open source to out-pretty Apple

Intel mobile Linux stack dumps Ubuntu

* News about IT

Microsoft donates cash to Apache

Speculation over back door in Skype

Google hits a milestone: found 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once!

The dark side of the internet is growing. An infested site discovered  every 5 seconds

Here’s someone leaving the dark side (MS developer goes to open source)

* Hardware news

Some nvidia mobile GPUs are flawed Dell releases BIOS update to alleviate. I think we may have a few people in the forum with this problem. It’s Geforce 8400M and 8600M that are affected.

D-Wave’s Orion: The First Commercial Quantum Computer?

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Enjoy life

Husse

After a whole month of tough competition here’s what the All Stars table looks like for July 2008:

1             dafdaf  — 2.497 pts, 16 games. * Congrats! *
2               mitd  — 0.175 pts,  2 games.
3             vacant  — 0.096 pts,  1 games.
4               alex  — 0.093 pts,  1 games.
5          MeansWell  — 0.079 pts,  1 games.
There were 5 users playing 21 games.

Congratulations to Dafdaf!

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Exploder found a problem in BETA 044 which was supposed to be released this week. It’s related to language support so we decided to postpone the release of RC1 until we get this fixed.