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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Although we posted last night a “leaked mirror” the official release of Fedora 7 (not Fedora Core 7) is at 2pm GMT today. So less than 30 mins to go.
Check back later as we will post a quick run [...]

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Mozilla have announced that firefox 1.5 support has officially ceased and have also released the next point release of v2, 2.0.0.4.
They said that the new version fixes six security holes, one of which is rated ‘critical’. The new version of the browser contains one patch that covers 30 memory bugs in its JavaScript engines.
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How cool is this inovation? It just makes me want to go and get my old lego out and start building stuff again.

ZipZip, the manufacturer, offer the brick in 6 colours Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Black and White. The only size available at the moment is 1Gb and the price is quite high at $59 [...]

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Apple have announced that they have plans to allow users of its Apple TV service to stream YouTube videos. The announcement was made at the recent D5 conference along with a demo of the YouTube streaming by none other than Steve Jobs himself.
“This is the first time users can easily browse, find and watch YouTube [...]

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The Zonbu is one of the first of what I see as the new generation of home computing. Its essentially an embedded PC which uses an online medium for storage. The specifications of the device are:

Intel-like ultra-low power CPU
512 MB RAM + 4GB flash-based local storage
Graphics up to 1400 x 1050 (16 million colors).
Hardware graphics [...]

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A stage appearance by arch rivals Bill Gates and Steve jobs was the highlight of the D5, The Wall Street Journal’s ‘Executive Conference’.
It was the pair’s first appearance together in more than 20 years, however those expecting sparks to fly were disappointed.
The Microsoft and Apple chiefs were interviewed over a range of topics. When [...]

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Fedora 7, although not officially released until tomorrow is available on some mirors albeit hidden. here are a couple of links already.
32 Bit
ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/iso/F-7-i386-DVD.iso
ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/iso/SHA1SUM
or 64 Bit
 ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/x86_64/iso/F-7-x86_64-DVD.iso
ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/x86_64/iso/SHA1SUM

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Computerworld have just published of the 20 must have add-ons for the popular browser firefox.
Quite a good list I thought, theres a few there i hadn’t tried before. There are also a few i would have added for example scribefire.
take a look here

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Microsoft have unveiled their latest project, the “Surface”. In a step toward Bill Gates vision of having a PC with natural human interaction of touch, voice and pen, the “Surface” is essentially a coffee table styled device with a touch screen interface.
The unit has been initially aimed at the commercial market to provide entertainment in [...]

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LG have filed a patent for a novel idea. A washing machine with inbuilt MP3 player.
Somebody obviously gets paid far too much money to come up with these crazy ideas!!!

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Some time ago we featured a number of posts on Firefox. It may be the better browser but sometimes you will come accross a site which only renders correctly in IE or includes some kind of active x component which won’t display in firefox. This is where IE Tab comes in, IE Tab basically opens [...]

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Thought this was brilliant! A Rubiks cube made from dice and magnets.

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As the release of Fedora 7 is getting closer and the freeze already upon us, this weeks fedora weekly should be quite interesting. Some info on the refurbished fedora designs.. Looking snappy might i add.
The newletter this week looks like this:

Fedora Weekly News Issue 89

Announcements

Fedora Project Web gets a face lift
Fedora 7 RC2 “Fedora” spin [...]

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This weeks distrowatch weekly news is available, topics this week include:

Reviews: First look at PCLinuxOS 2007
News: Fedora 7 final testing, Dell PCs with Ubuntu
Released last week: Pioneer Linux 2.1, BeleniX 0.6
Upcoming releases: Fedora 7
New additions: BeaFanatIX, Granular Linux, Openfiler, Parted Magic
Reader comments

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Yesterday, umoms posted about the best gaming setup he had seen for the XBOX 360. Today I have found something similar for all the PC gamers out there (few as we are with all the new consoles), but requires a lot less hassle setting up.
Simply plug the chair into a regular USB 2.0 (Universal Serial [...]

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