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Stories · 2

  1. The Best of Windows Open Source Software?

    Ask · Microsoft · · posted by Cliff · from the not-just-for-penguins-anymore dept. · 889 comments
    Boiotos asks: "I'm cooking up a CD-ROM image of excellent Win32 Open Source software to give to friends and family who are intrigued by the whole OSS movement but don't know where to start. I figure once they're used to Mozilla and AbiWord under WinXP, a Linux partition would be less daunting. So fellow Slashdotters, how about it: what Win32 OSS projects deserve a place on the 650 Mb of Solid Gold? Remember, this is for non-geeks and families, so Cygwin is out (even though I love it) and games are in. Extra points, as always, to the obscure but beautiful. Finally, projects targeting only Win32 -- with no Free Unix crossover -- may apply, but will be subject to a strenuous physical test."

  2. Artificial Chromosome Inheritance

    Science · Science · · posted by Hemos · from the passing-it-down-the-lhe-line dept. · 74 comments
    Socramon writes "There's been a lot of discussion (and flaming) lately about genetic experimentation. For those who aren't sick of hearing about it already, there's an article on New Scientist about a Canadian company, Chromos, which has created an artificial chromosome that has (so far) been passed down through three generations of mice. The company's homepage, www.chromos.com is, unfortunately, "Under Construction"."