Chris Lord shares his experiences and six laws of writing simple games for GNOME, using Clutter.
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SCO gets more time to file appeal brief regarding its loss to Novell
SCO filed a motion asking for more time to file its appeal brief with the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. They needed 10 more days, and Novell agreed to it, so the clerk signed off on it the same day the motion was filed, and the new date for SCO to file its brief will be September 9.
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Installing Liferay 6.0.5 Community Edition Bundled With Tomcat On Ubuntu 10.04
Liferay Portal is an enterprise web platform for building business solutions that deliver immediate results and long-term value. Get the benefits of packaged applications and an enterprise application framework in a single solution.
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Nautilus Terminal Embeds A Terminal Into Nautilus (Dolphin Style)
This is a Nautilus extension which embeds the terminal into the Nautilus window. And just like it is with Dolphin, when you navigate to a different folder, the terminal also "cd"s into that folder.
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Valve is Looking For Someone Who Can "Port Windows Games to Linux"
Valve is all too familiar with gaming folks out there. They are the guys behind the awesome STEAM online gaming platform. They were in a bit of controversy recently when they denied all reports of a Linux version of their famous online gaming platform. But once again, Valve is in the news.
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Automating your Android Phone with SL4A
Back in Part 1 we learned how flexible and script-able Android is, and installed the SL4A scripting layer. Today Paul Ferrill teaches more about how to write custom Android scripts.
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Court Says First Sale Doctrine Doesn't Apply To Licensed Software
A federal appeals court ruled today that the first sale doctrine is "unavailable to those who are only licensed to use their copies of copyrighted works."
This should make freely licensed software even more appealing.
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A Guide to Today's Top 10 Linux Distributions
One of the most confusing things for the newcomer to Linux is how many distributions, or versions, of the operating system there are. What follows, then, is a roundup of sorts of the top 10 Linux distributions today.
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Open-Xchange Releases Free Migration Tool For Microsoft Outlook Users
Open-Xchange, a provider of business-class open source collaboration software, announced the availability of data migration tools for users of Microsoft Outlook to easily move e-mails, contacts, appointments and tasks to Open-Xchange Server.
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What's the best Linux BitTorrent app?
Not all BitTorrent apps are made equal. Yes, there's a big range of features such as support for encryption and random port access, but at the same there's also a huge range of speeds -
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Open Source: No one is working for free
People continue to wonder how to make money in the free and open source software world. It’s dressed up in discussions of how one makes money when you give away the software for free.
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OpenOffice.org: preparing the next ten years
The OpenOffice.org conference celebrating the tenth birthday of OpenOffice.org started in Budapest yesterday morning. Here are some first notes from the field.
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TexLive 2010 available
TeX Live is a TeX distribution which is the replacement of teTeX. It is now the default TeX distribution for several Linux distributions such as Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu and Gentoo. Other Unix operating systems like OpenBSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD are also converting from teTeX to TeX Live. TeX Live may be run directly, or "live", from a CD ROM, or from a DVD ROM, hence its name.
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WordPress trademark now owned by noncommercial organization
We are pleased to announce that Automattic has made a remarkable and generous donation by transferring ownership of the WordPress trademark to the WordPress Foundation. We're honored to accept this donation, and to preserve and protect the trademark in the years ahead as a keystone part of the Foundation's mission to ensure that WordPress is around and thrives for generations to come.
Read more »Installing Java Runtime Environment & Netbeans IDE in Ubuntu
NetBeans IDE is an open-source, fast and feature full tool for developing Java software. It runs on any operating system where a Java Virtual Machine is available. NetBeans helps to develop java applications and projects with ease and good user friendly environment. Here is the right mechanism to install NetBeans IDE in Ubuntu.
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