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For seven years Linux Game Publishing has been selling their Linux-ported games with no form of copy protection on their CD/DVDs, but beginning with their forthcoming port of Sacred: Gold that will be changed. LGP has developed their own Internet-based game copy protection system for Linux, and in this article we have more details on this scheme as well as their motives behind this work.

More at www.phoronix.com.

Documentation can be found at wiki.mandriva.com/en/2009.0_Development.

A group of UK open source supporters today slammed a High Court judge’s decision to reject its call for a review of the British Standards Institution’s approval of Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML) document format as an international standard.

The UK Unix and Open Systems User Group (UKUUG) said it planned to appeal the judgment, and is asking for donations to continue its fight against the software giant’s contentious OOXML victory earlier this year.

More at The Register.

6 Installation issues

6.3 Boot fails with Could not find filesystem /dev/root after Upgrade from previous release

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Download Day starts on June 17th at 10:00 PDT, which is 17:00 GMT/UTC. Check this out for local times: http://tinyurl.com/4e7fv5

Information from www.spreadfirefox.com/worldrecordgroup - added to original post.

"Being Becta insiders is what matters, insiders who have no track record in open source, do not even give it a passing mention on their website, and until yesterday were completely unknown to anyone in either the industry or community. Just handed a quarter-of-a-million pounds, Becta's friends are now responsible for the direction open source takes in British schools, entirely removed from the UK open-source community and industry."

More at ZDNet.

Microsoft has become a sponsor of The Open Source Census, a project started earlier this year that aims to track and catalog the use of open-source software in enterprises worldwide, the group announced Monday.

More at PC World.

5 Resolved Issues

5.1 Running KDE Control Center Screen applet causes system to hang

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You should add that to the MUB's collection! :D

Unfortunately, someone has made the emotican folder read-only...

a13x hasn't been here for 3 years, so you may not get a response... :)

Download the packages shown to their own folder, then use the rpm command in that folder to overwrite the newer versions.

Richard has done something similar using his CD packages (see above).

See comment 3 on bug 40525, relating to the timezone update...

Now it's Venezuela... :)

And there may be more in the pipeline...

Groklaw has the story.

Hello jiangyanjia.

 

Welcome to MUB if you haven't already been welcomed.

John - he/she turned out to be a sneaky spammer, so has been eliminated...

and before i forget, the upgrade/reinstall option does not work if the target partition contains the same release. i was getting a perl-like error that has the word uniq in the end.

Like this? :P

The Phorm bug is spreading. The idea of collecting a user's browsing history and flogging that data doesn't just appeal to ISPs. The Mozilla Foundation, the people behind the Firefox browser, want some of that action too.

The Foundation is officially a tax exempt non-profit - but still manages to pay its chairperson $500,000 a year. Executives last week confirmed they are working on a project referred to internally as "Data". This would gather anonymised data on a voluntary basis, and provide the analytical information for anyone who wanted it.

More at The Register.

I'm still on 2007.1 but this is where I found it:

System - Configuration - KDE - Appearance and Themes - Icons... :)

8 Software issues

8.6 k3b verification of burned disc fails

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A European Commision spokeswoman told The Register today that although Becta’s allegations would not be considered as a formal complaint, the evidence it submitted will form part of an indirect probe into Microsoft’s business practices.

European Commissioner McCreevy is pushing for a bilateral patent treaty with the United States. On Tuesday 13 May in Brussels, White House and European representatives were trying to adopt a tight roadmap for the signature of a EU-US patent treaty by the end of the year. Parts of the proposed treaty will contain provision on software patents, and could legalise them on both sides of the Atlantic.

Commissioner McCreevy's home constituency, Ireland, is the main base in Europe for large US software firms who repatriate most of their EU profits as licenses and "patent royalties" without paying taxes in Europe. In his former government office, McCreevy built the Irish tax-free harbour.

More at lwn.net.

Microsoft’s plans to get Office 2007 into British classrooms suffered a fresh blow yesterday when Becta confirmed that it has referred an interoperability complaint to the European Commission.

A Microsoft spokesman told The Register today:

“Microsoft is deeply committed to education and interoperability. We believe that more and more schools are upgrading to Windows Vista and Office 2007 as they increasingly recognise the benefits of embracing technology to transform teaching and learning.

“We have funded the development of tools to promote interoperability between Office 2007 and products based on the ODF [Open Document Format] file format. We will continue to work with Becta and the Commission in a cooperative manner to resolve these issues.â€

obzerver: I've moved your latest posts to this thread, and linked to the other one. Please don't raise the same problem in different topics - it causes confusion. :)