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Rocking Out With A Linux Guitar

While it may look at first glance like an electric guitar or one of the stringless guitars from Guitar Hero, Misa Digital is billing its new creation as a “digital guitar.” And get this: It’s Linux-based. According to Handle With Linux , the “Misa guitar runs Gentoo Linux on an AMD Geode processor and it has MIDI and Ethernet ports for connectivity.” Where there would be pickups on a normal electric guitar, Misa’s offers a touchpad LCD screen. By working the LCD screen with one hand and pressing down on virtual strings on the neck of the instrument, you can create synthesized sounds

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Hedge Fund Serves Up $2 Billion Offer For Novell

After the close of trading in U.S. stock markets on Tuesday, Elliott Associates, L.P., a hedge fund with a significant position in shares of Novell, placed an unsolicited offer to buy the company for $2 billion.

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MySQL Founder Monty Widenius On What to Expect Next

MySQL founder Monty Widenius, who left Sun Microsystems early last year, remained very  vocal throughout the long machinations leading up to Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, even mounting a letter writing campaign .  With the Sun acquisition going forward, we reached out to Monty for an interview and he was kind enough to share his thoughts with us. In this two-part interview he speaks candidly about MySQL and Sun, and we will run the second half of the long interview tomorrow. OStatic: Now that the acquisition is going through, what do you think the future of MySQL is going to be?

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Four Open Source Apps for Your iPhone

There aren’t a ton of open source apps available for the iPhone, but the ones that are out there are real gems. Here’s four of our favorites: Colloquy [iTunes link]- One of the most popular open source IRC clients for the Mac takes its show on the road with it’s mobile version for the iPhone. It runs in the background to track conversations and tells you at a glance where the action is

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