Skype seems to be following a tradition. They had first introduced Video chat with 2.0 Beta version for Windows. They followed the same version pattern and introduced Video chat in Linux with version 2.0 Beta for Linux
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Shar Looking fonts on Linux
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Linux today has very good looking fonts, however, some of the people who migrated from Windows still feel the lack of Windows Type fonts. Luckily we have two very good options Install the core fonts.
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Okular The Universal Document Viewer in KDE 4.0
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With KDE 4, we will get Okular, the one stop shop for all our Documents. Okular supports the following document types: PDFPostscriptDjVuCHMtiffimagesdvixpsoooFictionBookComicBookPlucker. Okular began as a replacement of KPDF and was part of Google Summer of code, the project description is at KDE Developer's Corner.
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Happy 20th Birthday to Perl :)
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"On December 18, 1987, Larry Wall released Perl 1 to the public. That means today is the end of Perl's 20th year..."
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TIMTOWTDI in Emacs, too.
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"...Sepia aims to make Emacs the kind of interactive development environment for Perl that it already is for Emacs Lisp. This involves a number of components..."
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Open access whois
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"During the last public ICANN meeting (LA, Oct. 29 - Nov. 2), there has been a discussion on a proposal to restrict the public display of information that registrants provide when registering domain names (aka whois)..."
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Free Software Foundation Fundraising: Makos...
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"...Now is the time to join and give to Free Software Foundation. 2008 is going to be extraordinarily important year for free software.
Eben Moglen likes to quote Gandhis first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win progression when describing the free software movement. As I pointed out when I joined the FSF board, were beginning to see powerful interests fighting free software. Its going to increase in the next few years. Things will probably get a lot uglier for free software before they get better. We can win but things are far from settled. The FSF is the front-line organization in this fight and we need a robust and proactive foundation, and an active and involved membership, if were going to win.
Read more »The commons, the state and transformative politics
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"...Arturo di Corinto, a sharp and ebullient Italian media activist, writer and film-maker, set out a bold vision of free software as a common resource: ‘Thanks to its characteristics, the free software is a distributed property that is capable of evolving into a common good’, he declared..."
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KDE Usability Tweak-Edit Window Decorations
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Simply edit window decorations! Within KControl, it is very simple to edit KDE's window decorations.
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The World Series of Linux: Round 3, The Championship
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CMP Channel Test Center conducted its first-ever World Series of Linux, looking at six desktop distributions of the Open Source OS. Over three rounds, they were put through the paces to see if Linux is ready for prime time.
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Will Windows Server 2008 fully embrace Linux?
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There has been much debate over the last week as to how the forthcoming Windows Server 2008 release from Microsoft will embrace Linux, specifically with regard to the interoperability between Windows and Linux as evidenced by Release Candidate 1 code.
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Comprehensive Linux System Services List: Explanation and Recommendation
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Linux services are basically programs that start at boot time to provide certain features and services (Apache, the web server for example). After installation, every Linux distribution provides a list of enabled services. However, you might not need some of these services or you might need others that are not enabled by default.
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Microsoft Sued Over (Lack of) Standards Compliance
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Is lack of standards compliance an anti-trust issue? The Opera folks think so. Yesterday, the Norwegian browser-maker submitted an anti-trust complaint against Microsoft to the European Commission.
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European Union and the Lisbon Treaty: the birth of a new country
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I found this story on the FSF web site. I don't know what's the impact for Free Software. Feel free to vote down the story. As a french citizen, i think it's just a shame; in a Free Society, citizens should have the right to choose themselves their future...
Source: http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2773
For French readers: http://contrejournal.blogs.liberation.fr/mon_weblog/2007/12/une-haute-tr...
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The World Series of Linux: Round 2
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CMP Channel Test Center conducted its first-ever World Series of Linux, looking at six desktop distributions of the Open Source OS. Over three rounds, they were put through the paces to see if Linux is ready for prime time. In Round 2, it's SLED 10 vs. Fedora 7 vs. PCLinuxOS
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