Big Buck Bunny codenamed Peach is the second Open Source Animated Movie from the Blender Stable.. Like its elder sibling Elephant's Dream this movie has been created using Free and open Source software Blender .. The Project Peach started in October 2007 and produced an amazing result know as Big Buck bunny which was released April 10, 2008..
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GNOME 3.0 officially announced... and explained
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At the recent GNOME User and Developer European Conference (GUADEC), the GNOME release team announced a proposal for developing the next major iteration of the open source desktop environment. The plan offers a long-term strategy for moving GNOME development forward and defining future goals for the desktop.
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When ’supported’ doesn’t equal ‘fully functional’
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As your experience in Linux grows, you learn one thing: don’t buy new hardware or peripherals without checking whether it’s supported by your favorite distribution. It saves both money and disappointments.
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KDE: Right Click, Extract Here
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I've been hunting for a post on how to have KDE "extract here" like Foresight Gnome edition does (it's really handy to one click extract archives)...Then I decided to search KDE-Apps.org and viola! I found it. A handy little tool that allows you to right click on any archive and "extract here" with Ark. Here's how to install it.
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Desktop Distros
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As a long time user of Linux, and reader of Linux Magazines, Websites and Blogs, many see the current Linux situation as being a dawn of a new horizon. Essentially the release of the EEE PC, the timely release of Vista and Ubuntu have all kick started the “Linux Revolution” for the Linux desktop.
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GTK+ State of the Union, Plans for 3.0 (PDF)
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At last week's Guadec meeting, Kristian Rietveld delivered the GTK+ "state of the union" report. GTK+ is the multi-platform toolkit behind a number of popular applications and, perhaps most well known, the Gnome Desktop environment for Linux.
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9 File Managers for Linux
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9 Linux file managers: Konqueror, Nautilus, Krusader, Dolphin, Xfe, PCManFM, Thunar, ROX-Filer, Midnight Commander.
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Close, But Not Quite: A Linux HTPC
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Today I saw the news that Cirgon is shipping a Fedora-based HTPC. I was glad to see the news, but, unfortunately, I was not impressed by the implementation.
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gOS Space: OSX-like operating system without the Apple
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I’ve been a fan of gOS for a while now. I’ve been running their Rocket release for about a year. It’s based on Ubuntu and has the benefit of pre-installed Enlightenment. It’s solid, runs well on lower-end hardware, and…it’s Enlightenment (what more do you want?)
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My 10 Favourite Free/Open Source Applications
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Your own must-have applications will obviously depend on what you use your computers for. My own everyday needs are quite modest – my PC is used for web surfing, emailing, listening to music, watching the occasional movie, writing, photoediting and printing and, last but by no means least, testing Linux distributions...Anyway, here's my list of must-have applications
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10 Best KDE Applications - Reloaded
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This article is a continuation of the 10 Best KDE Applications Not Included in KDE which I wrote a while ago. In the first article I reviewed Amarok, KTorrent, K3b, Gwenview, KVirc, Kaffeine, KDevelop, Kid3, DigiKam and Yakuake. In this second part I'll add 10 more applications which I consider to be full-featured and to have a high quality.
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Two handy MediaWiki extensions
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Here are two powerful tools for your MediaWiki installation. One helps you populate your wiki quickly from data in a spreadsheet. The other creates PDF ebooks, complete with tables of contents and page numbers, with a single click from your wiki.
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Brasero vs K3B: CD Burning in Linux
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In this site I have not hidden my preference for KDE over GNOME, and also my preference for K3B. However, for K3B my comparison was mainly Nero or GNOME’s older default burning application. With Ubuntu 8 point whatever, and thus also in Linux Mint 5 (which I am currently using in one of my computers) came the Ubuntu CD Burner Brasero. And I was keen to see how it worked.
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Few players in the Linux arena creates their Linux distro to look like Mac OS X or Windows... Here I'm going to list some distro which looks like Mac OS.
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KDE 4.2 Kopete mockups
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One of the things I want to do for KDE 4.2 is a “Contacts” plasmoid: A Kopete-centered plasmoid that displays your contacts status and allows for a quick chat initiation. So far I have two mockups which I’d like feedback on — please comment!
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