On January 1st, 2022 with 16 comments
Another 12 months gone by, and with it nearly 8,000 new Slashdot headlines — so which ones drew the most views?
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On August 2nd, 2010 with 659 comments
eldavojohn writes "President Barack Obama has announced that on August 31st the United States will cease all combat operations in Iraq, although 50,000 troops...
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On June 29th, 2010 with 701 comments
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Donald Knuth is planning to make an 'earthshaking announcement' on Wednesday, at TeX's 32nd Anniversary...
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On December 23rd, 2009 with 120 comments
eldavojohn writes "Despite news that VLC might not have anyone to work on the Mac release, Lifehacker brings word of a video editor that the VLC team is...
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On July 21st, 2009 with 104 comments
kfogel writes "Canonical has just fully open-sourced the code to Launchpad. Although we'd said earlier that a couple of components would be held back, we...
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On May 27th, 2009 with 70 comments
hampton2600 writes "The Wikimedia Foundation is proud to present our new mobile site optimized for modern high-end phones. The interface is focused on being...
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On February 26th, 2009 with 209 comments
revealingheart writes "Plagiarism Today reports on the release of the Creative Commons Zero license, which allows you to waive copyright and related rights to...
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On February 10th, 2009 with 388 comments
Slashdot.org was unreachable for about 75 minutes this evening. Here is the post-mortem from Sourceforge's chief network engineer Uriah Welcome. "What we had...
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On January 25th, 2009 with 60 comments
csn writes "On Wednesday, January 28th at 6:00 PM PST and 9:00 PM EST, the stars of the cult television hit 'Mystery Science Theater 3000' will reunite to do...
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On November 4th, 2008 with 310 comments
YA_Python_dev writes "The Xiph.Org Foundation announced Monday the release of Theora 1.0.
Theora is a free/open source video codec with a small CPU footprint...
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On June 24th, 2008 with 67 comments
jschauma writes "Alistair Crooks, president of the NetBSD Foundation, announced recently that it 'has changed its recommended license to be a 2-clause BSD...
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On June 23rd, 2008 with 583 comments
ashamanq was one of many who noted that comedian
George Carlin has died of heart failure. Most famous for his "Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV" routine...
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On May 1st, 2008 with 69 comments
An anonymous reader writes "OpenBSD 4.3 is now available! Released today, May 1, 2008, 4.3 introduces many new improvements and upgrades. The complete...
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On November 7th, 2007 with 167 comments
eldavojohn writes to tell us that mass production of the first XO laptops has officially started. "The commencement of mass production means children in...
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On November 7th, 2007 with 168 comments
Lauren Weinstein writes in to announce the new "Network Neutrality Squad" — NNSquad. Joining PFIR Co-Founders Peter G. Neumann and Weinstein in this...
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On July 8th, 2007 with 324 comments
freakxx writes "Seven new 'wonders of the world' have been announced today in a ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal. People throughout the world have voted actively...
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On February 22nd, 2007 with 79 comments
shoemortgage writes "The Association for Computing Machinery has named Frances E. Allen the recipient of the 2006 A.M. Turing Award for contributions that...
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On December 4th, 2006 with 206 comments
lisah writes "Ten winners of this year's 'Sysadmin of the Year' contest have been announced and, while Robin 'Roblimo' Miller says it's not quite like winning...
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On November 25th, 2006 with 193 comments
An anonymous reader writes, "Fox Atomic has pulled the plug on the Revenge of the Nerds remake. The movie was into two weeks of shooting when Emory University,...
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On January 9th, 2006 with 36 comments
C. Craig Ross let me know that the 2006 Linux Symposium has issued their 2006 call for papers The conference is being held from July 19th thru the 22nd up in...
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On December 30th, 2005 with 253 comments
ghost_crab writes "Following up on this story, the winner for the 10th Anniversary GIMP Splash Contest has been announced. Concurrently, a birthday edition has...
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On December 21st, 2005 with 456 comments
By Leon Shiman, X.org -- X11R7.0 is the first release
of the complete modularized and autotooled source code base for the X Window
System. It is the first...
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On November 2nd, 2005 with 80 comments
X-Fade writes "Nokia launched OpenSource.nokia.com today. It is the first place to look for information concerning Nokia involvement in the Open Source...
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On September 7th, 2005 with 165 comments
kurosawdust writes "The first ever episode of Robert Cringely's long-awaited NerdTV is now available for download. This episode features Andy Hertzfeld,...
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On September 4th, 2005 with 90 comments
corso64 writes "Ohio Linux Fest 2005, a free conference/event for Linux and OSS enthusiasts, looks to be every bit as good, if not better than Ohio Linux Fest...
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On August 26th, 2005 with 309 comments
Dreamwalkerofyore writes "The New York Times has an article on a recent affirmation that the earth's core rotates faster than the earth proper. From the...
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On August 26th, 2005 with 87 comments
Jeremy C. Reed writes "The BSD Certification Group announced on Thursday
the release of their certification program roadmap. This publication
introduces the...
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On August 18th, 2005 with 302 comments
datemenatalie writes "According to Sci Fi Wire, V for Vendetta, originally slated to open on Nov. 4, has been pushed back to next March. The film stars Natalie...
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On August 1st, 2005 with 17 comments
nickstoughton writes "The Linux Standard Base (LSB) project is holding its annual plenary meeting next week, Aug 8, in San Francisco, to coincide with LWE.
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On June 25th, 2005 with 7 comments
dirkx writes "For the first time in 3 years - the Apache gathering will be once again in Europe." The next ApacheCon Europe will take place July 18-22 in...
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