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Posted by timothy on Sunday February 13, 2005 @10:28PM from the no-joke dept.

mo writes "The Desktop Linux Summit has just concluded in San Diego. There were a number of exhibitors, including Novell, AMD, and Mozilla. I've put together a summary of some of the more interesting announcements and booths at the conference. Highlights include a Linux-only 3D game, DRM-free music services, and a new Asterisk GUI."

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User-friendly desktops are for wimps! (Score:5, Funny)

by Cyburbia ( 695748 ) writes: on Sunday February 13, 2005 @10:42PM (#11664279) Homepage

Where are the tubby bearded Unix gurus? The skinny, pasty-skinned, ponytailed technopolitical geeks with the long leather dusters? The thought of any "summit" where friendly user interfaces were highlighted probably scared 'em off.

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Re:Games. We need more Games (Score:2, Funny)

by neuro88 ( 674248 ) writes: on Sunday February 13, 2005 @10:45PM (#11664306)

Uh, Linux already has NFS..

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And it would be twice that if.. (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday February 13, 2005 @10:51PM (#11664333)

...it wasn't for those darn half man/half monkey clones downloading illegal copies of games with their modded Mac Minis running Debian!

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Re:Linspire 5 (Score:4, Funny)

by DCMonkey ( 615 ) writes: on Sunday February 13, 2005 @11:10PM (#11664433)

And I love that screenshot with the taskbar that has room for about 1.5 open window buttons at 1024x768 resolution.

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Re:great timing (Score:4, Funny)

by Eideewt ( 603267 ) writes: on Sunday February 13, 2005 @11:27PM (#11664521)

And that's just a poor substitute for piloting actual battlemechs.

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Re:great timing (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday February 14, 2005 @12:57AM (#11665035)

Reading this post actually restored my virginity. Damn you straight to hell.

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User-friendly desktops are for wimps! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Games. We need more Games (Score:2, Funny)

And it would be twice that if.. (Score:1, Funny)

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