Coordinated by Google, the Android platform has been finally released into the market!
Read more »A Guide Through The Linux Sound API Jungle
At the Audio MC at the Linux Plumbers Conference one thing became very clear: it is very difficult for programmers to figure out which audio API to use for which purpose and which API not to use when doing audio programming on Linux. So here's my try to guide you through this jungle:
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10 amazingly alternative operating systems
This post is about the desktop operating systems that fly under the radar of most people. We are definitely not talking about Windows, Mac OS X or Linux, or even BSD or Solaris. There are much less mainstream options out there for the OS-curious.
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Technical overview: Maemo 5, the next-gen Nokia Tablet OS
Nokia is pushing significant architectural changes at many different levels in the Maemo platform stack. The new components will simplify application development and bring new capabilities to future Internet Tablet products.
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gOS 3.0 goes gold
Good OS (gOS) has achieved a major new release of its Ubuntu-based operating system. Targeting OEMs that want quickly customizable Linux netbook OSes, gOS 3.0 integrates closely with Google Gadgets, as well as with Google Mail, Calendar, Reader, News, Applications, Picasa, and so on.
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Funambol Announces World's First Open Source Mobile Sync App for T-Mobile Android G1 Phone
Funambol Inc., the leading provider of open source push email and mobile sync for the mass market, today announced the world's first open source mobile sync app for the Android G1 phone from T-Mobile USA. The Funambol Android Client syncs contacts from a Google gPhone with a Funambol Server.
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Flock: Firefox's Social Cousin
Think of Flock as the social-butterfly cousin of the hard-working Firefox browser.
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Gwibber a great application and it’s Linux only.
Micro blogging is all the rage right now I do it, my friends do it, millions of others do it.
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Ask Linux.com: Mobile broadband, partitioning thumbs
This week in our regular update on Linux.com's forum activity, how to set up SIM-based mobile broadband, how to edit partitions on a bootable USB thumb drive, and more. Plus, you can smell the excitement in the air at the official start of the autumn unanswered questions season.
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First Draft of GNOME 3.0 Roadmap Looking Good
Recently, an early draft of a semi-unofficial art roadmap for the much-discussed GNOME 3.0 was proposed. Though nothing here is ground-breaking, it is the kind of thing we need. Here are a few of the interesting points from the roadmap:
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How to install Subsonic Ubuntu Hardy
Subsonic is a free, web-based media streamer, providing access to your entire music collection wherever you are. Use it to share your music with friends, or to listen to your own music while at work. You can stream to multiple players simultaneously, for instance to one player in your kitchen and another in your living room.
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Ease Linux Deployments With Cobbler
As soon as you start administering more than a couple of Linux machines you become aware of two things: You need to be able to reinstall machines quickly and easily, and you need to be able to customize the load of each machine without starting from scratch.
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Zarafa open sources Exchange alternative
Zarafa open source offering will consist of the Zarafa server, Z-Merge (a new web services API platform for application integration), the Zarafa IMAP/POP3/iCal gateway, the Zarafa Administration Console, the Zarafa WebAccess and many other tools and services.
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Wubi Tuesday
This time, however, I decided to try out Wubi, an installer that promised to let me run Ubuntu without having to re-partition my hard drive.
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Get some attitude for aptitude.
Many times when looking around the internet for the rare program that is not in the repository. Or even if you want a newer version of a program that is in the repository. You will find that some sites have pre-prepared binary packages which can be downloaded and installed. Normally they specify instructions on how to install those packages.
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