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Richard Stallman sent a message to OpenBSD-Misc, explaining why he doesn't recommend OpenBSD . (OS News)
Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:54:25 GMT "From what I have heard, OpenBSD does not contain non-free software (though I am not sure whether it contains any non-free firmware blobs). However, its ports system does suggest non-free programs, or at least so I was told when I looked for some BSD variant that I could recommend.

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Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:28:42 GMT Richard Stallman sent a message to OpenBSD-Misc, explaining why he doesn't recommend OpenBSD . "From what I have heard, OpenBSD does not contain non-free software (though I am not sure whether it contains any non-free firmware blobs).

The BMW Museum's kinetic sculpture takes your brain to another dimension (Engadget)
Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:34:01 GMT Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Ready to have your gray matter softly stroked? Perhaps you should take a trip to BMW's recently opened museum in Munich, where a kinetic sculpture comprising 714 metallic balls suspended in air will soothe your weary mind. It's one of those things that's better seen than described, but if you can imagine a wave of undulating orbs that appear to weightlessly ...

Author Nick Hornby not feeling the fever pitch over e-books (Engadget)
Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:19:00 GMT Filed under: Misc. Gadgets , Handhelds This won't come as a massive surprise to most, but author Nick Hornby isn't so into e-books . After walking into a British Borders book store to find the £399 ($790) Iliad for sale next to some £4 paperbacks, he poo-poo'd the platform in a guest column on the Penguin Blog. So here we have a book author blogging on a book publisher's site about ...

3D mammograms increase breast cancer detection by 23 percent (Engadget)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:04:00 GMT Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Scientists have developed stereo mammograms -- breast X-rays taken with special cameras and at multiple angles -- that they say can help them increase detection of breast cancer by 23-percent while decreasing false alarms by 46-percent. By overlaying images taken at different angles or using 3D glasses, Researchers at the Mayo clining say they can now see ...

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 14th Sep 2007 13:58 UTC, submitted by anonymous (OS News)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:24:55 GMT "Reyk and I have decided to show something from the private handling of this Atheros copyright violation issue," OpenBSD creator Theo de Raadt began in a posting to the OpenBSD -misc mailing list referring to the recent relicensing of OpenBSD's BSD licensed Atheros driver under the GPL. He noted, "it has been like pulling teeth since (most) Linux wireless guys and the SFLC do not wish to admit ...

Researchers boast of progress with printed electronics (Engadget)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:49:10 GMT Filed under: Misc. Gadgets There's certainly no shortage of researchers working on printable electronics these days, but a group from the EU-funded CONTACT project is now boasting of a "major step" towards being able to print electronics on everyday materials. At the moment, they seem to be focused primarily on printing organic TFT displays directly onto glass plates, which ...

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Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:13:12 GMT Greg Kroah-Hartman's announcement for free Linux driver development included the necesssary legal framework to honor NDAs when creating GPL'd drivers.

Laser-etched tattoos: don't try this at home, kids (Engadget)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:04:00 GMT Filed under: Misc. Gadgets It's not too often case mods cross over into the world of body mods, but when you think about it, it was kind of only a matter of time before people started using laser-etchers to give themselves immaculately detailed burn "tattoos." It's unclear what kind of lasting effects using an Epilog on your own skin will have, but don't be too stunned if it just peels ...

iPhone 3G lines start at the Apple Cube... one week early (Engadget)
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:19:11 GMT Filed under: Misc. Gadgets var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/iPhone_3G_line_camping_begins_now'; So we heard some really over-eager folks have decided to get a jump on the iPhone 3G line -- a really, really big jump. Obviously, we had to head down and see if it was true... and it is. Right now, about ten people have started a line outside of Apple's flagship store on 5th ...

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