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The Drizzle fork of MySQL, a major reworking of the database software for web and cloud use, reaches official beta status and can now import MySQL databases
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The new version of GNOME includes several minor enhancements and, with the impending release of GNOME 3 in the spring, is the last major version in the 2.x series
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The latest version of the SUSE Appliance Toolkit, which contains the software required to generate and manage local versions of software appliances, is now able to generate Amazon EC2 images
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Microsoft is to close down its Live Spaces blogging service (launched six-years ago as MSN Spaces). Blogs hosted on Spaces will be migrated to WordPress
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As promised Microsoft has released an out-of-schedule emergency patch, but has buried it in the depths of its Download Center
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The Wikimedia Foundation is experimenting with Swarmplayer 2.0 to bring down traffic costs by making videos embedded on Wikipedia available via BitTorrent
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Arduino has released two new open source micro-controller boards, one with double the flash memory and both with completely revised USB interfaces
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The CodePlex Foundation has decided to change its name to the Outercurve Foundation to end confusion between itself and Microsoft’s CodePlex.com project hosting platform
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The Document Foundation has been established and is forking OpenOffice, with widespread community support, to create the free software LibreOffice
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Over the weekend another Twitter hole opened up when postings appeared saying "WTF" with a link or proclaiming a preference for a certain sexual activity with goats
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