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Read more »Flip: A Simple Camera Done Right
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Sometime back I gave a pretty strong pan review of a couple of "toys" that were not compatible with GNU/Linux - with open standards really, since the community ensures that free software is compliant - and were therefore nothing more than a disappointment to my kids.
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XBMC 10.0 Beta 1 features new Add-ons system
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After more than nine months of development, the XBMC project has released the first beta of version 10.0 of its open source media player, introducing a new Add-on system for new scripts and skins
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Bazaar 2.2.0 released
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Bazaar is distributed revision control system allowing multiple people to have their own branch of a project, and merge code efficiently between them. It enables new contributors to immediately access to the full tools that previously have been limited to just the committers to a project. This release marks the start of another long-term-stable series.
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Debian mourns the loss of Frans Pop
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The Debian Project has lost a member of its community. Frans Pop (fjp) died on August 20th.
Read more »KDE Releases 4.5.1
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Today, KDE updated the Applications, Platform and Plasma Workspaces to 4.5.1, new releases bringing a number of important bugfixes on top of 4.5.0. 4.5.0 was released only three weeks ago and receives monthly service updates. 4.5.1 is the first in this series of bugfix and translation updates.
Read more »Mono Project Seems to be Dying (Development Virtually Halted)
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Mono development is nearly non-existent over the past month or so
Read more »GNU Debugger 7.2 released
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GNU Debugger is now available. GDB is a source-level debugger for Ada, C, C++, Objective-C, Pascal and many other languages. GDB can target (i.e., debug programs running on) more than a dozen different processor architectures, and GDB itself can run on most popular GNU/Linux, Unix and other OS variants.
Read more »Open Source Problem-Solving Tool Helps FOSS Teams Stay Focused
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If you've ever been gridlocked in a group decision-making process, you know how quickly things can go from frustrating to downright unwieldy. Even with a common goal in mind, it's easy to get bogged down in data and competing opinions.
Read more »Debian's backports service moved back to home
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After several years of slacking by everybody involved it finally happened: backports.org has become backports.debian.org. For that to happen several things had to get changed and streamlined, so please make sure to read this announcement to avoid too many surprises.
Read more »How to configure encrypted LVM on Zentyal
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Zentyal, a Linux distribution formerly known as eBox Platform, is a server distribution which can be used as a network gateway, unified threat manager, office server, infrastructure manager, and a unified communications server. By default, it is installed on an LVM-based disk partitioning scheme, but in a manner that is not optimal.
Read more »Firefox 4 Review: App Tab, Panorama and Sync
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Mozilla has recently released the fourth beta of the Firefox 4 browser. I have been testing it since the first beta and I am happy to see the progress and the addition of new features with each beta.
Read more »Software Freedom Law Center to Open India Branch
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The Software Freedom Law Center plans to create a new branch in New Dehli India to further expand their coverage of FLOSS and legal defense of free software. Mishi Choudhary will oversee the SFLC's New Dehli office.
Read more »Demonstrating the Power of KDE: Dolphin Outpaces Konqueror Yet?
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Nice demo of the many capabilities gained by Dolphin since its debut in KDE 4.0.
Read more »Debian ongoing release name is approved
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We will continue to use Toy Story character names for squeeze's successor. The next release will be called "wheezy" (the rubber toy penguin with a red bow tie), and will be Debian 7.0.
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