Mandriva

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Thursday, December 18, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. This is episode 39. Today's stories include an attack from a giant open source chameleon named OpenSUSE, a channel-enhanced Mandriva, a virtually new VirtualBox, an attack from 200 billion spam messages, and a knight in shining black armor to fight off at least a few of them.

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This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Monday, December 8, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. This is episode 35. Today's stories do not include a sad RIAA tale, but does talk about Google's open phone, an exploding open source cloud, yet another open cell phone OS, pay toilet Wi-Fi, Mandriva is either doing poorly or doing great, and how to fail your computing class.

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This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Wednesday, December 3, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. In today's news, not only is Linux apparently broken, so is the open source business model. Mandriva falls on hard times again, viruses cripple US military base, Microsoft pays for recommending them, OpenSUSE throws out the EULA, the costs of piracy, and a new browser war.

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