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idux 2007-04.5 christmas special

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| A lot has changed since sidux 2007-04 "" got released, most importantly
| additional hardware support for concurrent graphics-, DVB-, ALSA- and
| wireless LAN devices, which suggests to fresh up "", while continuing the
| development for sidux 2008-01 "". Consequently we are now proud to
| announce the immediate availability of the sidux 2007-04.5 "" christmas
| special for amd64 and i686 systems, shipping in roughly 45 MB KDE lite
| flavours and a combined i386+amd64 release with 430 MB KDE for kde-full.
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http://sidux.com/Article376.html

Also:

[2007,12,25] Vine Linux 4.2
http://www.vinelinux.org/


Related:

Momonga Linux 4 Release

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| To our regular users, Momonga Project wishs to express our most gratitude for
| continuing support.
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http://www.momonga-linux.org/archive/Momonga-devel.en/msg00036.html


http://www.linet.gr.jp/Plamo/


Berry Linux 0.83 released. (2007.8.20)

http://yui.mine.nu/berry/


New Partnership Extends Linux Foundation Work with Japanese Developers

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| Agreement Signed with Japanese Government Information-technology Promotion
| Agency (IPA) to help increase participation of Japanese developers in Linux
| and open source
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http://linux-foundation.org/weblogs/press/2007/09/30/new-partnership-extends-linux-foundations-work-with-japanese-developers/


Japanese Government to Embrace Linux

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| Oracle Japan is said to be leading the effort, which could launch
| as early as next month.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070503/34429_id.html?.v=1


Oracle, IBM, NEC to market Linux in Japan: Nikkei

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| Major information technology firms, including Oracle Corp., IBM Corp. and
| NEC Corp., will set up a consortium to sell servers and systems running
| the Linux operating system in Japan, a financial daily said on
| Thursday.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/02/AR2007050202938.html


Schools across Japan may switch to Linux

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| Japan's public broadcaster NHK reported late last week that the
| Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry plans to introduce
| the open-source operating system Linux for use within classrooms
| across the country in the near future.
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http://gyaku.jp/en/index.php?cmd=contentview&pid=000112


Microsoft foresees more suits in Japan

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| A legal battle between Microsoft and Japanese anti-monopoly authorities
| is likely to conclude next year and might lead to lawsuits or other
| patent infringement complaints against the U.S. software company,
| an executive said Thursday.
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft has been slapped with hefty fines by European Union regulators,
| who have said Microsoft broke competition laws and abused its dominant
| market position.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070412/ap_on_hi_te/japan_microsoft


OpenLogic Extends Reach in Japan with Ashisuto Strategic Partnership

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| Under the agreement, OpenLogic will provide support to Ashisuto
| customers for hundreds of open source packages.
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http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,112851.shtml


BakBone Leads Linux Data Protection Software Market in Japan for Fifth
Consecutive Year

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| Between 2005 and 2006 BakBone grew its Linux data protection mar