The next video shows Enlightenment 0.17 with three-dimensional effects of Ecomorph, a "composite manager" who also works in other environments desks light as Fluxbox or Window Maker. And best of all, Ecomorph is a hack of Compiz, and therefore also compatible with most of its plugins.

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The Korean company GPH introduced her Wiz, a new portable game console based on its own Linux distribution, GP2X, and an ARM9 processor of 533 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 1 Gb NAND flash memory, a slot for an SD card and a USB 2.0. The small console includes a 320x240 screen (QVGA) and a Lithium-Ion battery that promises up to 5 hours of fun.

But perhaps most attractive of the Wiz, in addition to the games written especially for her by independent developers, their ability to run at least 130 emulators for other consoles like the classic Atari 2600, NES, Super NES, Sega Genesis, N64 and Neo Geo, also obviously for all its games.

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VMWare has announced at LinuxWorld 2008 its decision to join the famous consortium with the idea of boosting the adoption of virtualization and Cloud Computing in the Linux world. "Linux is a natural platform for virtualization and Cloud Computing. VMware is obviously a leader in this field, and a primary dealer who has opted for the Linux platform, "said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the organization Linux Foundation." We are delighted to have VMware as a new member. "

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3 of the largest customers of MSN Messenger for Linux, aMSN, EMeSeNe and Pymsn will join forces in the forthcoming development of new aMSN2. So they decided what their developers, who also advanced that they have decided to create an edition for each environment: Gnome will be developed for GTK + (The GIMP Toolkit), KDE and Qt finally to Enlightment in EFL (Enlightenment Foundation Libraries).

Each project will bring the best of each:
aMSN, provides the core of the new client.
Pymsn, the move to Python, thus leaving the Dlc / Tk.

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