At the conference MacWorld 2009, Apple announced that from this moment music and videos available at the store iTunes are available without any restriction of DRM. The software digital rights management (DRM) that was distributed so far all the files that could prevent iTunes play on other devices other than iPod and through any other software of the same iTunes.

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Last month, the Debian Project suffered the tragic loss of a prominent member of his community. Thiemo Seufer died on Dec. 26 in an automobile accident. Seufer was involved in the project in several ways: many packages and was kept in the lead in the version for architectures MIPS Debian, was also a member of his team's Kernel and Debian installer.

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Songbird aims to do to iTunes what Firefox did to Internet Explorer: take a closed and proprietary design and turn it into something open, extensible and fun. Still does not compare to the software of Apple in each of its features, but now in version 1.0 includes some unique and exclusive:
Browse with tabs for everything but hear 2 numbers at the same time:).
Themes ( "Feathers") to customize its appearance with that of our desktop.
Extensions (Add-ons "), such as Firefox, are becoming more and better.
Convert a Web page into a playlist using your browser integrated.

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Last year, and after briefly reconsider, Beryl and Compiz project finally came together in the Compiz Fusion we know today. But today the story goes back to with Compiz + +, a new "fork" (or division of its main development) and announced on its list of official mail.

Compiz + + highlights having separate layers of OpenGL and Composition (Composite), which for example allows you to use this window manager although our graphics or their drivers do not support these technologies, in a manner similar to the new Kwin.

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Michael Meeks, a full-time developer of OpenOffice.org (OO.o), writes on his blog that this project is "deeply sick" and to prove it includes a profusion of graphics on the activity of its developers and collaborations compared with the other open projects successful. Their findings are devastating:

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1. ClamAV
Clam AntiVirus is an antivirus free and open source tools especially designed for the scanning of e-mail gateways in the mail. It provides a number of utlidades including a demon multi-thread flexible and scalable, a command line scanner and an advanced tool for automatic updates of databases. The core of the package is an antivirus engine available as a shared library. ClamAV and its updates are available for free.

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Announced the availability of a repository of non-official KDE packages for version 4.2 of Debian Unstable ( "Sid"). The repository is temporary, and will be available until the final version of KDE 4.2 will be incorporated into the Debian archive, taking "snapshots" of their development every week or two and packaging them for i386 and AMD64 architectures.

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The Linux Kernel Unified (LUK) is a Chinese project to build a kernel that is itself a binary compatible with the software and device drivers for Windows and Linux facts. This kernel matter the main features of the Windows kernel Linux kernel where possible using the code developed by other projects such as ReactOS, Wine and NDISwrapper.

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The group of Fedora Colombia published the second edition of its simplified user guide that aims to make the world of free software, including Linux and Fedora easier and closer to the average user.

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Manoj Srivastava, a former member of the community of Debian, resigned his post as Secretary of the Project and is considering completely abandon that community. Srivastava was who sent the message asking for the vote on the status of the firmware in the next Debian 5.0 "Lenny" this week and apparently his decision is due to the overwhelming criticism destructive on the 7 options included in the vote.

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