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- ↑ La historia de Linux: nacimiento, crecimiento y madurez de un pingüino, malavida, 2015-08-28.
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- ↑ Oliver Fourdan currently open on Gnome bug tracker, accessed 2017-01-28.
- ↑ Oliver Fourdan submitted patches at Gnome Bugtracker, accessed 2017-01-28.
- ↑ Patches from Olivier Fourdan on Freedekstop.org, accessed: 2017-01-28.
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