How to get the complete Multimedia support in OpenSuse 11.1 (MP3, MPEG-4, DiVX, etc.)
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Tux Racer on the iPhone
Warning : english translation at the bottom of this article.
This video shows a demonstration of the famous open source games Tux Racer, running with the iPhone.
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MySQL 5.1 downloaded a million times
MySQL 5.1 has already passed its million downloads milestone according to Zack Urlocker, Vice President of Marketing for the open source database.
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Ruby on Emacs (journey from TextMate to Emacs…)
"Im a GNU/linux fan to the core, so sooner or later this was gonna happen. Ever since i started using TextMate, the fact that it was a non-free ware and i couldn’t hack it kept me uncomfortable [...] I don’t feel too excited about my OS X Leopard anymore and im planning to move back to Ubuntu/Debian [...] Why should anyone move to Emacs ??? "
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Sun and open-source events changed as recession bites
Sun Microsystems has scrapped its industry analyst conference held annually in San Francisco, California. It was scheduled for February.
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Fedora 10 Impressions
I decided to switch my desktop back to Linux now that I know I can play Counter-Strike in VirtualBox thanks to the OpenGL 3D acceleration availible in VirtualBox 2.1.0. I *was* going to go back to the ‘ol reliable Ubuntu, but I decided since I have Nvidia graphics now, that I would try out Fedora 10 since the drivers are availible in RPMFusion’s repo.
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The Linux Applications Alternative Series: Bittorrent
Its a common misconception that Linux doesn’t have applications for day to day computing, nothing can be further from the truth. In fact I would wager that there is an alternative for any app/function out there.
Read more »Red Hat to host virtual JBoss show
Red Hat is following the Second Life path and is set to host an online conference for users and partners of its JBoss Java-based middleware products.
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BleachBit - Cleans unnecessary files to free disk space and maintain privacy
BleachBit deletes unnecessary files to free valuable disk space, maintain privacy, and remove junk. Rid your system of old clutter including cache, temporary files, cookies, and broken shortcuts. Designed for Linux systems, it wipes clean Bash, Beagle, Epiphany, Firefox, Flash, Java, KDE, OpenOffice.org, Opera, RealPlayer, rpmbuild, VIM, XChat, and more.
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Ubuntu 8.10 upmc for the Asus EeePC? Don't bother, just install the full distro
I discovered recently the truth of the old saying that necessity is the mother of invention. Yes, I finally did it. I bricked my beloved EeePc. I had just installed the Smart package manager and a subsequent reboot saw me stuck in, well, an eternal boot loop. Impulsive mixing of repositories always ends in tears - but not being able to boot? Argh!
Read more »7 Great Free/Open-source Platform Games for Linux
If you are exhausted from playing your favorite FPS games like Urban Terror or Alien Arena, how about you relax a little and play some good old "platform games" on your Linux box. I have here a list of some great free and open source platform games that you may enjoy.
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Turn Thunderbird into a Full-Blown PIM with Lightning
Continuing the recent trend of posts about email client and personal information manager (PIM) software, this post will look at the Lightning extension for Thunderbird.
Read more »Cutting Through the Windows 7 Hype
I don't understand it. When it comes to Windows, everything either sucks or is the best thing in the world according to the press. There seems to be no intermediate point, despite the fact that that is where most Windows releases would fit. Recently, I have been getting very tired of anything with the words "Windows 7," "killer," and "linux," no matter what order those appear in.
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dstat: versatile tool for generating system resource statistics
During my work with computers, I like to check the usage of system resources in my network. Sometimes a running process takes up too much CPU load, or the disk I/O goes too high. To get a clean picture of how much resources are being used by a client, I used ifstat, top(1) and iostat(1). Since I have found out about dstat, I can cleanly check out all the system resources used by my computers.
Read more »How Many Different Ways Can You Stop VCS On Linux Or Unix?
All right, knock it off, VCS. ...wait, not that way!!!
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