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“The openSUSE project has released SUSE Linux 10.0 Beta 2.
Something noticable about this beta, is that they now have a PowerPC version!
Yep that’s right folks SUSE has returned to the PowerPC platform.”

I have a friend who’s a Mac user, and really is hooked on SUSE’s YaST configuration tools, I really think this new development is great, because I think PowerPC is an interesting architecture, but also because now Mac users will have a very easy to use Linux distro, if they want to run Linux on their Mac, which I sure would love to if I had a dual G5 PowerMac!

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“The 15 best free downloadable tech shows currently available on the Internet.”

If you, like me, only has crab TV channels and just don’t watch TV anymore because it doesn’t show you anything interesting, or you just like the early IPTV stuff, you should definitely check this list out. I’ve been watching a bundle of these for a while, and I must say, it 0wnz the ass of pretty much any paid-for stuff I’ve ever seen!

God bless everyone out there doing TV shows online, I think I can speak for most users out there, we love your work!

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“If Sun gets very serious about Solaris 10 on x86 and the Open Solaris project that it hopes will nourish it, Linux vendors had better get very worried. That’s because, in the many areas where Linux is miles ahead of Solaris, Sun stands a good chance of catching up quickly.”

In my mind Sun will never “kill” Linux, they may offer some good competition, but that’s fine with me because competition is good for the industry in my opinion.

Personally I’ll always use either Linux or FreeBSD, beacause they are relativly vendor independant. The only major corporation, I know of, that offers support for Solaris just happens to be Sun themselves. If I used Debian Linux there are a lot of guys I could go to for support, guys like Progeny Linux, who’ve been working with Debian for years would be the first place I’d go, but if I didn’t like their service I could go to another support vendor.

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“Gotta love it. If you missed out on seeing it when it actually was hacked, here is a picture to let you know what it looked like.”

If you, like me, strongly oppose the RIAA and MPAA, you gotta check this screenshot out. It shows the RIAA site when it got cracked and replaced, with what seems like a warez site

I certainly hope someone will do it again, and maybe even go a step further and add a BitTorrent tracker on their site while the cracker is at it!
I’ll be laughing my ass off when I see that!

Meanwhile, I’m sure the guys at the RIAA and MPAA are busy tossing salad on every single member of the US Congress.

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Leo Laporte has done it again!!
Yet another podcast from the superstar of The Screen Savers and Call For Help.
Security Now! is new podcast convering weekly events in the security part of the world of computing, with him on this podcast is Steve Gibson, a long-time security guru, and the man who discovered the first spyware.

Link: Security Now! Podcast Feed

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“DVD Shrink is now officially dead. According to the website, “DVD Shrink is no more” and they have removed all of the download links as well.”

This thing really sucks, first DVD Decrypter died, and now DVD Shrink. Both wonderful programs, my meesage to RIAA and MPAA: FUCK YOU BASTARDS!!!!!!

If I’m going on a holiday and I wanna bring a laptop along and watch movies on it, I don’t wanna bring 20 discs, I want to put them on the hard-drive. What’s wrong about that?

And even if they fine me 25,000 dollars, I would refuse to pay them and still backup my movies.

If you look around on the web you can still find DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink. I’ve seen them on BitTorrent, they’re still out there.

“Legends never dies”…

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“The amaroK Development Team is very proud to clear version 1.3 of the popular audio player for takeoff. After four months of focused work, we feel that this release has again substantially improved on amaroK. We hope you enjoy amaroK 1.3′s greater usability, exciting new features and many bugfixes.”

I’ve been using the beta versions of amaroK 1.3 for a little while, and I have to say, this new version is amazing, definitely worth upgrading!
Podcast support, cue sheet support, HelixPlayer engine support and Wikipedia look-ups, just to name a few of the new features.

If you’re using SUSE Linux, like I am, you can find fresh new RPMs for this new version of amaroK right here: Guru’s RPM Site

Thanks a lot to Pascal Bleser for making the upgrade a breeze, and by the way congrats on your new baby!

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A friend of mine, who’s running a quite big danish Nintendo website, has just launched a new version of his site with lots of cool new features, like RSS feeds and great stuff.

Congratulations to Prüsse and his team at NintenDome.dk with the new version, you guys are doing an outstanding job, keep up the great work!

Link: NintenDome

“In his QuakeCon 2005 keynote, John Carmack revealed that after some delays id is finally ready to release the complete Quake III source code for use under the terms of the GPL. He could not give an exact date, but was confident that this would occur “within a week”. Currently id is making sure everything is licensed correctly and everything builds, and as soon as that is complete the whole package will be set free.”

This is just awesome, I’ve always loved Quake III, personally I think it’s one of the best first person shooters ever made, and now id software is releasing the sourcecode for it, I just love that!

Remember when they released the Quake 2 sourcecode? What happend is that people started porting the game to every single operating system out there, and to a lot of different CPU architectures. Even though the sales of the game was almost the dead, by making the Quake 2 engine free software, people started buying it once again because they needed the graphics and the things that actually makes Quake 2 the game it is, because id software only released the engine’s sourcecode. I know a lot of people who still loves Quake III, when I can afford it (I’m broke right now ) I’m definitely gonna buy Quake III… again! (I lost my previous one, damn it!)

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“The openSUSE project is a worldwide community program sponsored by Novell that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. The program provides anyone with free and easy access to the world’s most usable Linux distribution, SUSE Linux.”

Novell has finally launched project OpenSUSE, and released SUSE Linux 10.0 Beta1!!
I can’t wait to try this beta out, if you’re a Linux enthusiast, I seriously encourage you to download and help test this release out. SUSE Linux is already an amazing Linux distribution, and in the hands of the Linux community it can get to be THE BEST Linux distribution.

Link: OpenSUSE.org