Google says Oracle's lawsuit is baseless and an attack on open source Java, while Java luminaries examine the merits of the case
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Oracle turns its back on OpenSolaris
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While Oracle no longer intends to let the community participate in the development of Solaris, the vendor does plan to retain the open source licence
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Main development phase for Linux kernel 2.6.36 concluded
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AppArmor, Fsnotify, built-in support for Turbo Boost on newer Intel mobile processors and a KMS driver for the latest GeForce graphics cards are some of the more significant changes in Linux kernel 2.6.36, scheduled for release in October
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gimp-plugin-registry - A repository of optional extensions for The GIMP
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It is a collection of scripts and plugins for The GIMP. The name is based on the webpage GIMP Plugin Registry, where most (new) plugins and scripts are listed. So far the package ships with 170 scripts/plugins.
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Command Line Audio: Simple as mpg123
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Did you ever want a little background music with your daily grind but either you didn’t want to (or couldn’t) fire up something graphical to use? That’s where mpg123 comes to your rescue. Mpg123 is a fast console MPEG audio player and decoder library.
Read more »How much of an Open Source Gypsy are you?
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A while back I was helping someone out over in the #fedora irc support channel. We managed to work on their issue and get it solved, but instead of enjoying their victory or working on another problem they indicated that they were happy, but were going to go off and install $otherdistro now.
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Ohio LinuxFest 2010 -- September 10-12
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The 2010 Ohio LinuxFest is held in the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio, This conference boasts speakers well known and informative, a vendor expo, tutorials, a new medical track and lots more. As always, basic registration is FREE!
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Lightweight Distro Roundup: Day 1 – Lubuntu
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Our candidate? Lubuntu, a Ubuntu flavor that uses LXDE as its desktop environment. I has everything that Ubuntu has going for it; large community support, tons of packages in the repositories and years of Ubuntu legacy and know-how.
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Ubuntu Studio Sound Theme is Old But Still Really Good
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Ubuntu Studio is a multimedia enhanced Ubuntu variant packed with custom wallpapers, themes, screensavers, system sounds and more. With Canonical in the lookout for a new System Sounds theme for upcoming Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, all those who want to contribute may want to check out the original Ubuntu Studio sound theme for inspiration. They are pretty darn good IMO.
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Windesperation
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As I was browsing the Web, I read this comment of a user who considered that Windows is a necessary OS "to get things done". He said this in the context of his disappointment with Linux because of the need of the command line.
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Update KDE to 4.5 and experience true improvement
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For the longest time I have shrugged off KDE 4 because of poor performance. But since 4.4 I have noticed a rather vast leap of the improvement chasm. Now, 4.5 is out and the leap went lunar!
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CWTV adds Support for Streaming to Linux
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Never doubt that your voice matters. CWTV will now stream on your operating system of choice so long as said operating has a flash enabled browser.
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How to install Banshee Media Player 1.7.4 in Ubuntu 10.04/9.10
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Banshee is a free media player for GNU / Linux, written in Mono and Gtk . It uses GStreamer multimedia library for encoding and decoding of different file types, such as Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and FLAC.
Read more »Project Harmony Takes Aim at Open Source Contribution Agreements
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Open source licenses help to define the terms and conditions of software use and redistribution. But what are the terms and condition under which developers actually contribute code? That's the realm of software contribution agreements.
Read more »Trying Out The New Ubuntu 10.10 Installer
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Following last week's Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 3 release but landing before the Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" feature freeze this week were a number of last-minute features like X Server 1.9 integration and other updated packages along with the committing of the revamped Ubuntu desktop installer to Maverick.
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