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Well researched news from technology and related politics.

News about programming and operating systems including some less popular ones

News about open source.

Community regulated news site

The infamous community regulated news site

Encyclopedia which is editable by everyone. Suprisingly good quality, but don't use if your life depends on it.

One of the best sources of missinformation.

Seems like this in not the usual abandonware site, no commercial games downloadable unless they are really released as freeware.

Largest collection of C64 games I have seen. Site owner has not contacted the copyright owners (if it's in all cases even possible), so downloading is actually illegal, but nobody doesn't care.

Large collection of games that are not sold anywhere anymore. Most of the games are still copyrighted, so downloading is actually still illegal.

"a weekly trunkload of open source"

"Talking about the BSD family of free operating systems."

How-to about technical topics such as MythTV or building high quality A/V cables.

No time for reading Digg? Best stories from the Digg.

Show about various technical topics, twice a week.

Were do all that pirated material come from? Find out at The Scene.

Fresh news and heated discussions.

Every problem is solvable with a cocktail, at least in this show.

Interested in modding or security? Then this one is for you.

Information about which applications include spyware like features.

Blog with security news and half true stories about security investigations.

Scan suspicious files with number of anti-virus scanners.

Quite good list of Windows security software and some other useful utilities not related to security

Good place to start looking, if you're interested in open source.

Good place to start looking for suitable Linux distributions.

Detailed comparisons of open source operating systems.

It looks like Dell is already pretty excited about Google's Chrome OS, as the company has released a highly experimental USB key image of the new operating system. It's made specifically for the Dell Mini 10v, but is far, far from stable of perfect. "It contains a functioning image of my USB key loa ...

Now this is an interesting case. Late last week news got out that Apple is refusing to repair machines still under AppleCare from customers who smoke, citing health risks from second-hand smoke. Wait, what?

We've got some progress in the other legal case Apple is involved in. The California case, Apple vs. Psystar, is more or less a done deal, but the Florida case, Psystar vs. Apple, is only just beginning. As it promised it would do, Apple has now asked the court in California to either dismiss the Fl ...

Astute readers probably already saw this one waiting in our backend, but since there was no official announcement yet, I decided to wait. Now that it's officially here, let's rejoice: the FreeBSD team has released version 8.0 of their operating system, packed with new features and improvements.

Distrowatch takes a first look at Fedora 12 and concludes that it is an excellent release with faster package management including yum with the Presto plugin that pulls in delta updates by default, improved security such as a smooth SELinux configuration and hardware support. "After spending several ...