As companies and communities come together to raise awareness of Open Standards for the forth consecutive Document Freedom Day, the issue of freedom from restricted digital files is more relevant in the UK than ever. "Britain's relationship with Open Standards is rapidly changing for the better.
Read more »A bright Document Freedom Day for Britain?
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Document Freedom Day celebrated around the world
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Today, activists in 37 cities around the world are raising awareness for Open Standards and open document formats. In workshops, talks and other events, they are explaining why Open Standards and Free Software are crucial to a free and competitive information society. "It's great to see the power of the community behind Document Freedom Day", says campaign coordinator Fernanda Weiden.
Read more »Google open source guru: Why we ban the AGPL
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Google open source guru Chris DiBona says that the web giant continues to ban the lightning-rod AGPL open source license within the company because doing so "saves engineering time" and because most AGPL projects are of no use to the company.
Read more »Fuduntu Weekly Update - Improving Terminal
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The Fuduntu Team is always looking for new ways to improve the look, and feel of our distribution. We do this by carefully choosing components that mesh together to provide a complete desktop experience.
One of the most often heard problems with Linux distributions is the difficulty of the command line, so we set out to find a way to improve it.
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How to effectively deal with missing firmware problem on Debian
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You know it already, since Debian 6.0 non-free firmware are no longer provided by a standard Debian installation. This will cause some troubles to users who need them. I’m thus going to do a small overview on the topic and teach you what you need to know to deal with the problem.
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Coming soon: PlayOnWindows, by the creators of PlayOnLinux!
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We are very proud to announce that a new project will soon see the light of day!
Introducing: PlayOnWindows!
Why?
Ubuntu 11.04 'Natty Narwhal' Beta 1 Released - Full Review and Screenshots
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Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 1 has been released today and iso images are now available to download. Ubuntu 11.04, is coming up with an entirely new shell for Gnome desktop - Unity, which was default for netbook edition in Ubuntu 10.10 and was based on Mutter.
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Paravirtualization With Xen 4.0 On Debian Squeeze (AMD64)
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This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen 4.0 on a Debian Squeeze (6.0) system (AMD64) and create paravirtualized guests. Xen lets you create guest operating systems (*nix operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD), so called "virtual machines" or domUs, under a host operating system (dom0).
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ODF 1.2 approved as Committee Specification
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The OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC has officially and unanimously approved ODF 1.2 as a Committee Specification. The new version of the standard has taken four years to complete and has been adopted by many applications already. Next stage is the official vote within OASIS to adopt this specification as an OASIS standard.
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Enabling Compiz Fusion On A Debian Squeeze Desktop (Nvidia GeForce 8200)
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This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on a Debian Squeeze desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an Nvidia GeForce 8200 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop.
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Wineskin Pro 2.0 released with OS X 10.7 Lion support
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The Bordeaux Technology Group released Wineskin Pro 2.0 today. Wineskin Pro 2.0 is our initial release of Wineskin for Intel based Mac computers. This release has a custom built Xquartz X11 server that Microsoft Windows Games require to run in full screen mode. We also provide binary Wine builds as well as binary CodeWeavers CrossOver builds from their public source code.
Read more »Zenwalk Linux 7.0 is released! Screenshots Tour
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Zenwalk 7.0 is released, This release brings several major changes at user level and system level. At user level, the Xfce desktop environment has been updated to major version 4.8.1, coming with a new VFS, Xfce 4.8 allows CIFS and SFTP shares browsing through the file manager,
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Wine 1.3.16 Released
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The Wine development release 1.3.16 is now available. What's new in this release: New version of the Gecko engine, based on Firefox 4. Better support for Dwarf debugging information. Improved handling of animated cursors. GnuTLS no longer required on Mac OS X. Improvements to the GDI driver infrastructure. A number of MSI fixes for the .NET installers. Several GdiPlus improvements.
Read more »Easy Desktop Organization with KDE’s Plasma Shelf Widget
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The KDE Plasma Shelf widget is a versatile tool that will hopefully bring some order to your chaotic life. At the very least, it will give your Linux desktop the appearance of organization, and that will put you step ahead of most others.
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Installing Firefox 4.0 (.deb Package) On Ubuntu 10.10
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In this short guide I will show you how you can install the new Mozilla Firefox 4.0 browser (released March 22, 2011) on an Ubuntu 10.10 desktop. Fortunately, there's a Launchpad PPA repository that has Firefox 4.0 .deb packages, so we can easily install it through Ubuntu's package manager.
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