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Developments in the GCC world

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| As GCC nears its 4.4 release, there are a number of criteria that need to be
| met before it can be released. Those requirementsegressions requiring
| squashingave been met, but things are still stalled. A number of issues
| were raised with the changes to the runtime library exemption that have
| caused the release, and a branch that will allow new development into the GCC
| tree, to be delayed until that is resolved. In the meantime, however, GCC
| development is hardly standing still, there are numerous interesting ideas
| floating around for new features.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/324028/

Why would Google buy the Twitter open source project?

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| Why would Google spend over $250 million for Twitter, an open source project
| written in Rails?
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=3898

Online businesses that succeed rarely depend on Microsoft's shoddy software.


Recent:

10 Twitter Clients For Linux

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| If you think Twitter is a no-good, time-waster, fad that will die off just in
| time before the new social media fad comes in; you should be glad to know
| that that is exactly how I felt before I started using Twitter. Your
| experience with twitter will be as good as the people you follow or the users
| you socialize with. If you follow someone who spams you with marketing stuff
| and updates every morning what he had for breakfast, then you definitely will
| be disappointed.
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http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2009/03/22/10-twitter-clients-for-linux/


12 of the Best Free Linux Instant Messaging Clients

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| Instant messaging (IM) is a form of real-time communication between two or
| more individuals based on typed text. The text is conveyed via devices
| connected over a network such as the Internet.
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| There are a number of different instant messaging protocols which are used by
| the major networks. The primary ones are XMPP (used by Google Talk, Jabber
| etc), AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live
| Messenger (formerly called MSN Messenger), and the venerable Internet Relay
| Chat (IRC). The IM clients featured in this article either cater for as many
| different networks as possible, or focus on a small subset.
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http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20090316150603245/InstantMessaging.html


New FSF microblogging communities New FSF microblogging communities

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| identi.ca distributes the source code used to power the site under the Affero
| GNU General Public License, and is following the free network service
| principles that the autonomo.us working group has been developing.
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http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/fsf-identica-groups


Identi.ca Gets Funding to Make Open-source Twitter Variant

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| Identi.ca plans to build an open-source alternative to Twitter got a vote
| of confidence this week with an investment from the VCs at Montreal Start Up.
| While the amount of the financing wasn disclosed, Montreal Start Up
| Managing Partner John Stokes said the firm invests between C$150,000
| ($120,135) and C$400,000 ($320,329) per deal.
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http://gigaom.com/2009/01/14/identica-gets-funding-to-make-open-source-twitter-variant/


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Source Code For Twitter-Like App, Trillr, Now Available

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