Since this year March, I had been a heavy user of VoIP. I had been trying various options, asking other users on which service works best and so on. If not for VoIP, I would have been spending massive amount of money on Telephone to call home. One of the hard requrement was that it should run on GNU/Linux and should be Free (as in Freedom).
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EEE PC Linux distro to target smaller devices
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Linux desktop distribution vendor Xandros and Web content management firm Viyya Technologies have announced they will jointly market integrated, Linux-based software for "netbook" and Mobile Internet Device (MID) devices. Meanwhile, Xandros has strengthened its collaboration with Microsoft on its mixed-environment BridgeWays management tools.
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How Software is Built - Interview with Wade Olson from KDE
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Background of KDE and comparison to GNOME, ensuring usability in an open source project, managing interoperability among components, impact of commercial acquisition of open source projects, cross-platform support in KDE and reaction to KDE 4 public release.
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Thunderbird team needs help from Python/Perl build engineer
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"If you’re a Thunderbird fan but not interested in fixing some of the nasty C++ problems we tackle in the product, you could still be very, very helpful if you can help us with a little Python/Perl build problems..."
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fslint - toolkit to fix various problems with filesystems data
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FSlint is a toolkit to clean filesystem lint, like duplicate files, badly named paths, and broken symlinks for example. It includes a GUI as well as a command line interface.
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Flashblock 1.5.5
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"Flashblock is an extension for the Mozilla, Firefox, and Netscape browsers that takes a pessimistic approach to dealing with Macromedia Flash content on a webpage and blocks ALL Flash content from loading..." ** http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ ** https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433
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Ubuntu 8.10 'Intrepid Ibex' Release Schedule
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Ubuntu is a Linux distribution for your desktop or server, with a fast and easy install, regular releases, a tight selection of excellent packages installed by default, every other package you can imagine available from the network and professional technical support from Canonical Ltd and hundreds of other companies around the world.
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Repagination Pulls Multi-Page Articles into One
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Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): If you're sick of clicking through to subsequent pages of online articles, Firefox extension Repagination adds an option to your context menu to pull all of the pages onto one.
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Linux vs. Windows Metrics -- Nothing Is Quite What It Seems To Be
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10 days ago the Linux Loop blog had a post titled “Linux Eee PC Far Faster Than Windows Version”. I’m sure many Linux users nodded and had assumed as much. The author compared the times of three tasks: boot up, loading Firefox, and shutting down. That’s hardly a comprehensive set of tests. Some people commented to dismiss these metrics as “meaningless”.
Read more »Mandriva LINUX - Great For Newibes Who Want To Test LINUX
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Let’s say that you want to dump Windows, but you don’t want to go to Mac? That leaves LINUX as your only option. But you’re scared about moving to LINUX as you’re not sure that it’s right for you. No problem, there’s a LINUX for you and It’s called Mandriva LINUX One. I tried this out a week ago and it is nothing short of amazing!
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Adobe Opens Up Flash Specifications
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Adobe has this morning announced the Open Screen Project. The Open Screen Project is actually open and is designed to push consistent rich Internet experiences across a plethora of devices and varying screens. Behind Adobe in this move is Intel, LG Electronics, and Motorola, to just name a few.
Read more »Rails team for hire
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"...Feel free to contact me or any of its members informally if you may be interested. http://www.workingwithrails.com/group/8792-an-entire-rails-team-for-hire "
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Help improve Rails documentation on Git branch
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"Pratik’s documentation branch for Rails has moved to http://github.com/lifo/docrails. This branch is open for all to contribute to directly..."
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N.J. justices call e-privacy surfers' right
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"The Supreme Court of New Jersey became the first court in the nation yesterday to rule that people have an expectation of privacy when they are online, and law enforcement officials need a grand jury warrant to have access to their private information..."
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WORLD FACING HUGE NEW CHALLENGE ON FOOD FRONT: The 11th Hour in context
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"...To reconfigure our culture wholesale changes have to happen [...]If not opportunism and greed: then cooperate and share!
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