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This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Friday, December 19, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. This is episode 40. In today's stories, we get a breath of fresh Air from Adobe, montrously huge losses at Palm, the sudden dematerialization of Novell's Brainshare, a disturbing shot of reality from Good OS, and some fantastic Linux toys for the geek on your shopping list.

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Want to win a copy of this week's featured book, "The Official Ubuntu Book, 3rd Ed."? 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 after 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 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.

For the links to the stories covered in today's newscast, please click the 'read more' link.