A lot of people at the moment are immensely intrigued by Google Chrome OS. I won't hide that I am one of them. Google promises a much needed shift in the way small computers work. Problems like software updates, backups, installation, maintenance, viruses, have plagued the world for too long: a shift is way overdue.
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ODF on Linux-based Mobile Devices (KOffice and Androffice)
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Videos of Androffice running on Android, KOffice running on Maemo (both with OpenDocument support)
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WinFF – GUI for the command line video converter FFMPEG
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WinFF is a GUI for the command line video converter, FFMPEG. It will convert most any video file that FFmpeg will convert. WinFF does multiple files in multiple formats at one time. You can for example convert mpeg's, flv's, and mov's, all into avi's all at once. WinFF is available for Windows 95, 98 , ME, NT, XP, VISTA, and Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat based GNU/Linux distributions.
Read more »Chromium OS - Digging deeper into the open source Chrome OS
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With the arrival of the first code of Chrome OS, also known as Chromium OS in its open source form, the H takes a deeper look at the browser-centric operating system. When Google announced Chrome OS, many people assumed Google was launching an assault on the desktop - going after Microsoft Windows and were just not saying that was what they were doing.
Read more »Alien Arena 2009 - Dark, morbid and a whole lot of fun
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Alien Arena is a retro-futuristic, high-tech First Person Shooter, based on the CRX engine, a modification of the extremely successful Quake engine. It's a free, standalone deathmatch game, available for Windows, Linux and FreeBSD.
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Review: Kahel OS
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To start off, Kahel OS is based on Arch Linux. Therefore, Kahel OS embodies most of the ideals that Arch Linux has. On top of that, Kahel OS does simplify the installation process that may stumble new Linux users.
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Purchase music from Amazon on your Linux machine
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For most lovers of music on the go, the default seems to be the combination of iTunes and iP* (where * is either hone or od). This is great for Apple and Windows users. But where do Linux users get their new music?
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digiKam and Kipi sprint
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The developers of digiKam and the Kipi project came together in Essen, Germany on November 13-15 for the second coding sprint for KDE photography applications. With digiKam preparing for the 1.0 release shortly before Christmas, plans were discussed and work began already in feature branches for the following release.
Read more »Novell Strips BitTorrent DHT Technology from openSUSE
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The Pirate Bay’s tracker closure has spurred several discussions about DHT, BitTorrent’s fallback technology for when central trackers are unavailable. According to some, DHT has some problems of its own. Novell, for example, decided to ship openSUSE with the BitTorrent client Transmission, but not before stripping DHT support.
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Urban Terror 1st person Shooter on Linux
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Urban Terror is a great 1st person online team shooter with great graphics, and a whole heap of maps. Whatsmore, the online community is very active, I had no problem at all connecting to a server.
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Smooth sailing with the Karmic Koala
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When Ubuntu 9.10 ("Karmic Koala") came out, the first reports were somewhat discouraging. So, it was with some trepidation that I decided to finally give it a go, about a month after it came out.
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Jolicloud Linux OS review
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We have seen plethora of Linux variants based on Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch and so on. The people behind JOLICLOUD, a Linux OS say that we, the netbook owners will soon be ‘Jolicloud-ed’. But, is being Joliclouded beneficial at all?
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Parting with my partitions part one
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Knowing how to partition your disks is very important to our line of work. To further explain what I missed out on regarding the cylinders, head and sectors I am going to use an analogy.
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Docky gains panel mode network docklet
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Docky gained a sleek new panel mode and a network manager docklet in an update to users of the Docky PPA yesterday.
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Google Chrome OS 0.4.22.8 Screenshots
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Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS.
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