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There are a plethora of opportunities for geeks to meet and greet one another throughout the year: linux.conf.au, Linux Congress, OSCON, Linux Plumber's Conference, LinuxCon, the list goes on. There is one, however, where the focus is purely on the customer, so-to-speak — the end user. The conference in question, aptly named the End User Summit, is quickly drawing near, and the Linux Foundation is wondering who wants to be there.

Janet Jackson and Jermaine Dupri are back together, two months after they called it quits.

The couple, who began dating in 2002, were spotted together in Milan last week at a party with fashion designer Donatella Versace.

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Jason Perlow has written an article about Richard Stallman, Watch Out for That Meteor, Stallman. There are some factual errors in the article, so let me step up to the plate and fix them. Here's Perlow's theme in a nutshell, as published in an extended caption under a disrespectful cartoon of Stallman: "Richard M. Stallman (RMS) the founder of the Free Software Foundation, has labeled prominent Open Source software developer Miguel De Icaza a “Traitor” for joining the Board of Directors of Microsoft’s CodePlex Foundation as well as for his creation of the Microsoft .NET-compatible Mono software development framework. While RMS’s hatred of all things proprietary has fueled the FSF’s and GNU’s mission to create Free software alternatives for what seems like eons, the overwhelming desire for interoperability between open and proprietary systems makes this narrow-minded Cretaceous world view ripe for extinction." I have some news for you. The GPL ensures that Free Software will never be extinct. Thank you, Mr. Stallman, for inventing it. For that alone, he will go down in history. Perlow will not. And Miguel will not. You and I will not. But Stallman will. Do you know why? Because with just his brain, he changed the world for the better.

Who ever started a rumour that Britney Spears gave Lance Bass a lapdance on the last night of her Circus tour in Las Vegas during her “Breathe on Me” song haven’t really been to a strip club in their life.

Not so much of a lapdance, but more like a ‘Hey Lance, take a good look at ma ass’ kinda dance.

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Openshot is a video editor for linux, is one of the best ones existing actually for linux. The news is that now has a PPA this mean easy install for Ubuntu users, but the big news is that the new version come with 30 new effects. See the video demonstration what you can do with Openshot. and follow the installation instauctions for Ubuntu Jaunty and Karmic Koala

Here’s Australian Z-list actress Sophie Monk on a photo shoot in the Southern California ocean a couple of days ago, where she accidentally flashed some nip.

Never really into her before, when she had these sausage lips.

But she’s looking kinda hawt in the photos.

Check out the NSFW nip action after the jump.

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Lady GaGa did her last show of her tour in D.C. last night, and judging by her outfit, she was out to prove something.

Somebody buy her a pair of pants already.

On a different note, Caca earlier this week claimed that her friend Kanye West should be allowed to move on following his ‘Jackass‘ moment at the MTV Video Music Awards.

She told a Las Vegas radio station: “I can tell you that he’s very sorry, and he made a mistake, and he knows it. But at the end of the day, he is a pioneer in hip-hop music, and he changed what hip-hop music means. And I think that it’s time for everyone to kind of take their heads out of the newspapers and remember that, in truth, Kanye’s making most of the music we hear on the radio today. He has a tremendous effect on everybody’s lives and I think it’s unfair to judge a person by one thing that they said.”

What is she now, Kanye’s publicist??

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Your Linux computer may have hundreds of applications installed. How can any system menu be organized sanely? How can anyone find anything? Bruce Byfield examines the different approaches taken by the Gnome and KDE teams to deal with this.

You know a band is good when ever their b-sides and leftover tracks are worth the purchase. Around the Well by Iron & Wine ($14) is a double album filled...

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