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This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Thursday, March 5, 2009, with your host, Marcel Gagné. This is episode 53. On today's newscast . . . Helios goes mano-a-mano for being a Linux guy, car companies looking to Linux, netbooks again (it's been a while), bad support, Microsoft spreading FUD, FOSS people spreading FUD, and a Scale wrap-up.

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Tempers flare as recession creeps into tech industry

Car makers collaborate on Linux for cars

Are retailers highjacking Linux for their own personal gains?

Open Source leaders speak out on Tom Tom case

Is Microsoft targeting Linux through Tom Tom? Oh please . . .

Scale 7x - One week later

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Monday, January 5, 2009, with your host, Marcel Gagné. This is episode 42. Today's stories are brought to you by the number 7 (hey, 7 x 6 = 42), reasons why Linux will rule in 09, influential distributions, MadTux no more, living la vida nadaDRM, and Google Linux (aka Android) is coming to a netbook near you.

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Want to win a copy of this week's featured book, "The Official Ubuntu Book, 3rd Edition"? To win a copy, comment on this newscast (make sure you include your email when asked). I'll choose a name from the comments, at random, and make the draw this Friday afternoon. If you simply must have  the book, click the Amazon link to the right. If you can't think of anything to say in a comment (oh, come on), you can email me, quoting the tags from this episode of WFTL Bytes! My thanks to Pearson Higher Education for providing the book.

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Tuesday, December 16, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. This is episode 38. Today's stories feature a whole mess of speculation. Does Windows need a package manager a la Linux? Can Apple do small? Will USB 3.0 do Linux first? Wherefore art thou, Palm new-ness? Who stole my Linux netbook? Will you believe the truth if you heard the lie first? It's all speculation.

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Want to win a copy of this week's featured book, "The Official Damn Small Linux" book? To win a copy, comment on this newscast (make sure you include your email when asked). I'll choose a name from the comments, at random, and make the draw this Friday afternoon. If you simply must have  the book, click the Amazon link to the right. If you can't think of anything to say in a comment (oh, come on), you can email me, quoting the tags from this episode of WFTL Bytes! My thanks to Pearson Higher Education for providing the book.

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This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Friday, December 12, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. This is episode 37. Today's stories ask you to decide whether Cisco is a good or a bad witch as the Free Software Foundation sues forward. Meanwhile HP shows IBM they aren't the only ones, netbooks are seriously hot, Amarok rocks hard, and even teachers can learn.

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This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Monday, December 1, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. Today's stories include a list of what's wrong with Linux (and how to fix it), a kinder, gentler, more open, Microsoft, a kinder, more open, Atheros, Linux on the iPhone, Intel didn't know netbooks would go like this, and more.

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This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Monday, November 24, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. Stories for today include the end of the road for SCO, (honest, finally, really) first tenuous hops from Ubuntu's Jaunty Jackalope, a brighter than bright future for ASUS, Google and Apple netbooks, and why you aren't safe online.

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