mt-daapd is a DAAP server that works with most POSIX compatible operating systems. It allows you to share your music collection over the local network using the same protocol iTunes uses, so real iTunes users may peruse your music.
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My Ubuntu Experiment
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My 71 year-old father has agreed to try Ubuntu on his home PC. He has used Windows for years, but after his XP system became so infected with viruses and other malware that I needed to wipe his system, he's willing to try Linux. I've promised I'll reload XP if this experiment fails.
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A Holiday Present for Everybody: MEPIS 7.0 is Released
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MEPIS has released SimplyMEPIS 7.0. The isos for the 32 and 64 versions are in the released directory at the MEPIS subscriber site and public mirrors. MEPIS 7.0 offers up to date user applications delivered on top of a Debian stable core.
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Top 40+ GIMP plugins
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GIMP is the undisputed king of image editing in Linux platforms, and is next only to Photoshop in popularity in Windows and Mac platforms. With a large community of developers and an even larger pool of users, it is no surprise that GIMP is very popular.
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Wengo giving up on Wengophone?
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Lately I’ve been working on an updated version of the comparison between Skype and Wengophone I wrote on June 2006 for Free Software Magazine. While I was working on it, I spotted a number of rather worrying signs:
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GNOME, Google and the UNIX user interface
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Recently, after a flurry of annoying user interface issues, I’ve switched my RSS reader from Liferea to Google Reader. Interestingly, it turns out that Google Reader actually fits better with the traditional UNIX user interface concept, I’ve found.
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First look to Mozilla Labs Weave
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"The door is open again and registration available for Weave, Mozilla Labs’ application for synchronizing Firefox metadata online. To register, visit Weave User Registration site..."
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Syncing your BlackBerry on Linux
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If you use Linux on your desktop, and you also happen to have a BlackBerry handheld device, you're probably aware that Research in Motion, the company that develops the BlackBerry platform, offers nothing in the way of support for its devices on Linux -- but the intrepid geeks in the free software world do. Thanks to to the efforts of the Barry and OpenSync projects, I just finished syncing my BlackBerry 8800 with my Evolution contacts on my Ubuntu 7.10 desktop.
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How a Linux Download Topped YouTube's Hit List
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The hottest thing on YouTube this month isn't The Dark Knight trailer or that clip of a baby giving an evil eye. It's video of somebody downloading a copy of Ubuntu, a Linux-based operating system.
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Emacs: lisplog, an extension to create and manage your blog
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"...I love programming in Emacs Lisp and do everything with this powerful editor. Because of that I wrote an extension to create and manage my blog in it. It is called lisplog and you can find it here in emacswiki or http://www.salug.it/~fabioviola/lisplog-0.1.el ..."
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Nokia N810 Internet Tablet gains remote media player
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A San Francisco-based startup selling media-sharing software for home PCs and mobile devices has ported its flagship application to Nokia's Linux-based Internet tablet. Webot says its "Webot" software lets Nokia's WiFi-connected N8x0 Internet Tablets render music or photos stored on remote Linux, Windows, or Mac PCs.
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Cute little MicroTCA box comes with Linux
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Kontron has announced a cute little 3U, five-slot MicroTCA system that will ship pre-installed with Wind River Linux. The OM6040 boasts "single-star" PCI Express (PCIe) and Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) backplanes, and support for either PowerPC- or IA-based AMC (advanced mezzanine card) processor modules.
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Christmas Short Works Collection 2007
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"Christmas Short Works Collection 2007 containing public domain short stories, essays, poems, recorded by a variety of LibriVox members..."
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ZenEdu Live Christmas Edition
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"Zenwalk community, on the occasion of this festive season, is pleased to offer you a Special Edition of ZenEdu Live. A LiveCD based on Zenwalk snapshot and majoring on educational & fun contents which can be used independently by educational institutions, families, students & children alike..."
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A List of 30 Less Popular Linux Applications Available in the Ubuntu Repository. Screenshots Included!
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Have you ever wondered just how many packages are there inside the Ubuntu repository? You know there have to be a lot, but how many exactly?
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