Check out the comprehensive review of Mandriva 2008.1 Spring Edition/
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Tweak photos with Fotox
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Compared to powerful and feature-rich photo applications like F-Spot and digiKam, Fotox looks decidedly underpowered. But while Fotox is no match to those powerhouses featurewise, this lightweight tool can come in handy when you have to perform basic photo editing fast and with minimum fuss.
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OOXML BRM Convenor: “It May Be Time to Start Again from Scratch”
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Red Hat and Seneca College Partner to Bring Fedora Linux to the Classroom
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Seneca College students in the School of Computer Studies will work
within the Fedora Project while learning open source development and administration. As the principles and methodologies of open source are changing the software industry, Red Hat and Seneca College are committed to driving change through new models of computer science education.
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"A Strategy for Openness: Enhancing E-Records Access in New York State"
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Remember the New York State group that was told to investigate longterm storage needs in government and ODF/OOXML? The report is now published, "A Strategy for Openness: Enhancing E-Records Access in New York State". You can get it here in doc, PDF and odt formats, although only PDF works currently. It's just been posted, so later they should all be there. What did they find?
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Babies, grandmas and Linux
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It’s not often that I can go to a friend or community gathering and get the chance to talk open source with new people. Some of them work in tech or related industries and know at least what Linux or open source is, vaguely. But last weekend, while attending a baby shower, it went beyond the usual, flimsy open source familiarity. I met a man who actually uses Linux.
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MySQL: the Australian connection
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In an age when paper qualifications and certificates of one description or another are touted as evidence of competence, it's refreshing to know that the top MySQL expert in Australia has only been officially certified on a version of the program which came out years ago.
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Git Management
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Linus Torvalds: «So for that end-point-developer situation "git rebase" is absolutely the right thing to do [...] So doing "git fetch + git rebase" is *wonderful* if all you keep track of is your own patches, and nobody else ever cares until they get merged into somebody elses tree [...] BUT if you're a subsystem maintainer, and other people are supposed to be able to pull from you, and you're su
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Grandmom’s Guide to the Asus Eee PC
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Well, my itsy bitsy teeny weenie seven inch Asus Eee PC finally arrived with the relatives visiting for fiesta season. I had bought it in the US six months ago, but it was back-ordered and not delivered on time. So my grandson Luke has been using it in the meanwhile.
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Quick-boot Linux environment makes a splash
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DeviceVM announced that its quick-booting Splashtop Linux implementation is being pre-installed in ROM (read-only memory) on four new Asus motherboards. Asus says it plans to ship over a million Splashtop-ready motherboards per month, making this one of the largest Linux deployments ever.
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Getting started with Ruby on Rails development on Linux and chosing the perfect IDE
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Recently, I forayed into the cool world of RoR and my immediate question was, how to get started and which is the best IDE to start my RoR journey with. I found loads of options and I have decided to list them here for the benefit of others, who face the same problem. I will also detail the installation of the IDE that I am currently using, which I feel is the easiest for newbies to start with.
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Asus innovation taking Linux into the cloud
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First through the Eee PC and now through its PC motherboards, Asus is rapidly carving a global reputation for itself as the company which knows how to take Linux mainstream. The question is will including the minimalist cut-down version of Linux called Splashtop on a million motherboards a month finally bring on the Linux desktop age or has it made the desktop redundant?
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Manage your personal accounts at home with homebank in Ubuntu
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HomeBank is free software. Use it to manage your personal accounts. It is designed to easy to use. Analyse your finances in detail using powerful filtering tools and graphs.
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Intel and Wind River driving Linux infotainment systems to cars
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Linux is in our computers, our phones, our Wi-Fi equipment, and our TiVos -- why not our cars? Intel Corp. and Wind River have been working with both the embedded and automotive industries to advance in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) with open, Linux-based, standards-based, interoperable hardware and software called Open Infotainment Platforms (OIP).
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