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| CrossOver Linux 9: Run Windows apps without Windows |
| Some Linux users insist that anything you can do on Windows, you can do better on Linux. While there's some truth to that, many of us have Windows applications that make completely leaving Windows close to impossible. That's where CodeWeavers' latest version of CrossOver Linux comes in. CrossOver Linux 9 (code-named Snow Mallard) and its Mac brother, CrossOver Mac 9, let you run many popular Windows applications on Linux or Mac OS X. Supported Windows applications include Microsoft Office (from Office 97 to Office 2007), Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Outlook 2002 to 2007, all current versions of Quicken up to 2010 and QuickBooks up to 2004, and some versions of Photoshop and Photoshop CS. |
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| Ex-Sun man Bray takes on paranoid Android role at Google |
| XML co-inventor and languages expert Tim Bray has taken a job at Google just a month after he left Oracle. “As of this morning I work for Google. The title is 'Developer Advocate'. The focus is Android. Fun is expected,” he wrote in a blog post titled “Now A No-Evil Zone”. Bray, who is among a growing list of Sun veterans to have jumped ship since Oracle bought the company earlier this year, didn't mince his words about his new anti-iPhone job with the Mountain View Chocolate Factory. |
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| Will a Linux Pad Ever Exist? |
| Will a mass produced Linux pad ever exist to compete with the iPad? One reader says that there is one but you get a different story when you click “Order.” |
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| LXer Weekly Roundup for 14-Mar-2010 |
 LXer Feature: 15-Mar-2010
This past week on LXer we had Jonathan Schwartz reminiscing in “Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal”, a newbies guide to hacking the Linux kernel, Phoronix reviews power and memory usage in the various desktop environments, Former Sun chief open source officer Simon Phipps joins the OSI board, Jack Deslippe explains why he no longer uses Apple products and last but not least my editorial on why Windows users have no Choice. Enjoy! |
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| Mobile Messaging and Collaboration Specialist Zarafa Gets a Foothold in France |
| Zarafa, the Dutch mobile messaging and collaboration specialist gets a foothold in France. Today, Zarafa announces that it has signed contracts with the French open source systems integrator Smile and with French distributor ETC. With these contracts and her presence at Solutions Linux, Europe’s largest commercial open source exhibition, Zarafa aims to strengthen its international market position. |
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