Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 89 for the weeks April 27th - May 3rd, 2008. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu Open Week, Intrepid Ibex: Open for Business, FLISOL Nicaragua 2008, Launchpad 1.2.4, gNewSense release of DeltaH(based on Hardy Heron), Fox New Responds to Linux Community, Ubuntu 8.04 vs. Windows Vista Power Usage, Interview with Donald Knuth, and much, much more!
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PlayOnLinux announces it's first birthday
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Today PlayOnLinux announced the first year of existence of their project. In order to celebrate it, they made a little summary of PlayOnLinux's improvements for those who weren't there since the beginning.
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RPMs - The HOWTO Short Story
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If you like the latest and greatest version of everything and you use an RPM based system you probably want to learn how to create RPMs. You don't have to, you can just download the latest source and compile and install it in /usr/local. This of course leaves your system in a state where your RPM database does not accurately reflect what is installed on your system.
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At LinuxFestNW this weekend I ran into a company, Zareason, that sells computers with Ubuntu pre-installed. Not just desktops but laptops that have camera's, wi-fi, and support for power management of modern laptops.
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Don't have a laptop? Try the virtual computer!
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You have heard of desktops and laptops, but now two engineering students in Kerala have come up with a virtual computer that can be accessed from anywhere in the world. All it needs is an internet connection. K. Ansar and P.P.
Read more »Batch process photos with Phatch
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Virtually any photo manager lets you perform mundane tasks like adjusting contrast, adding a watermark, and applying effects to your photos. But even powerful applications like digiKam and F-Spot can't really help you when you need to perform the same action (or a sequence of actions) on dozens or hundreds of photos. For that you need a batch processing utility like Phatch.
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Bringing your photos from F-Spot to the Web
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F-Spot is a graphical photo manager that allows you to tag your image files and search and view images based on those tags. With phpfspot, you can share the photo collection you manage with F-Spot with others through a Web interface and let them navigate through your photos using the tags you have set up.
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VU3RDD Station Log Blog Archive google talk voice chat on GNU/Linux
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Since this year March, I had been a heavy user of VoIP. I had been trying various options, asking other users on which service works best and so on. If not for VoIP, I would have been spending massive amount of money on Telephone to call home. One of the hard requrement was that it should run on GNU/Linux and should be Free (as in Freedom).
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How Software is Built - Interview with Wade Olson from KDE
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Background of KDE and comparison to GNOME, ensuring usability in an open source project, managing interoperability among components, impact of commercial acquisition of open source projects, cross-platform support in KDE and reaction to KDE 4 public release.
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Flashblock 1.5.5
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"Flashblock is an extension for the Mozilla, Firefox, and Netscape browsers that takes a pessimistic approach to dealing with Macromedia Flash content on a webpage and blocks ALL Flash content from loading..." ** http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ ** https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433
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Ubuntu 8.10 'Intrepid Ibex' Release Schedule
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Ubuntu is a Linux distribution for your desktop or server, with a fast and easy install, regular releases, a tight selection of excellent packages installed by default, every other package you can imagine available from the network and professional technical support from Canonical Ltd and hundreds of other companies around the world.
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Repagination Pulls Multi-Page Articles into One
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Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): If you're sick of clicking through to subsequent pages of online articles, Firefox extension Repagination adds an option to your context menu to pull all of the pages onto one.
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Linux vs. Windows Metrics -- Nothing Is Quite What It Seems To Be
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10 days ago the Linux Loop blog had a post titled “Linux Eee PC Far Faster Than Windows Version”. I’m sure many Linux users nodded and had assumed as much. The author compared the times of three tasks: boot up, loading Firefox, and shutting down. That’s hardly a comprehensive set of tests. Some people commented to dismiss these metrics as “meaningless”.
Read more »7 Ways to Copy Successfully in Firefox
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Sure, you can highlight with your mouse, right-click and copy - but why do that when there are so many awesome add-ons for Firefox that will help you get it done better and faster? If your looking for an extension to help power up your browser’s copying of links, information and more I have seven of them that should help you get the job done.
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Howto: Install VirtualBox in Ubuntu Hardy Heron with USB Support in 5 easy Steps!
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When I last checked Virtualbox did not update their repositories for Hardy Heron, its not a problem, their is a hardy package without a repository...So lets install the brand new virtualbox package for Hardy Heron...
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