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Linux.com: "KOffice has been trailing the office application leaders for a long time. Despite years of development, it has yet to match OpenOffice.org feature for feature, although its features are complete enough that they have attracted a loyal community.

Judging from the first beta, KOffice 2.0 will still not rival OpenOffice.org or other free software rivals, but it should be a major step in that direction."

ElectronicsWeekly.com: "The promise of Linux that is robust enough to be used in telecoms networks has been a long time coming, but the fourth generation of specifications for Carrier Grade Linux is now becoming well-established."

If you've been a Linix/UNIX user for a long time you surely know what RTFM means (Read The *bleep* Manual).

I'd like to offer up a new, related acronym, RRTFM, for Re-Read The *bleep* Manual.

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As announced on the symfony blog today, Doctrine now has "citizenship" in the framework with the release of the sfDoctrinePlugin:

I’m not quite sure when I was dropped from Planet PHP. I haven’t been there in a long time and certainly haven’t posted on there for a long time, so it is no surprise.

I think it is nice actually. I said what I wanted to say and I don’t think I have anything else to say about PHP, well at least not for a while.

TechRadar: "Claws Mail started life as a development fork of the Sylpheed mailer, and was for a long time known as Sylpheed-Claws."

Twitter isn’t for everyone, and you may have dismissed the service a long time ago. But regardless of your own use, it’s hard to dismiss the phenomenon itself and the passion of so many that has built up around it.

No matter how long the outage du jour, Twitter users continue to stay attached to the service.

Google might be the leader in search today, but that lead can't last forever. It can last a very long time, however.

Ars takes a look at the reasons for the company's dominance.

If you ask any Australian what the most annoying thing is about TV shows or movies, a common response is that it can take a long time for things popular in the US and UK to make it ‘down under’.

Apparently, the Mafia has picked up on this, as they have started selling pirated movies and TV-shows on the streets, or have they?

As every year it is the time of the election for the PEAR Group and PEAR President for the year 2008 and 2009.

If you haven’t casted your vote just yet, NOW is the perfect time to do it so go to the election page and place your vote.

This year’s election contains a great mix of fresh mindsets, experienced and long time PEAR users and members of last year’s PEAR Group.

Go, vote!