Extreme Coder is still hard at work putting together a version of Mandriva for older machines. He enlisted the help of Albi to create an IceWM theme that mimicks the default Mandriva setup, and the results are fabulous.
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Facets of Open Source Part I
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Recently I was asked the following question: What is the point of differentiating Open Source as an entity versus something that has just always been there?
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Nokia N810: unboxing and first impressions
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My shiny new Nokia N810 Internet Tablet was delivered yesterday. After fondling it for most of the day, I'm relatively impressed. The N810 is a bit smaller than the N800, which makes it more comfortable to use and easier to tote around in a pocket.
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LUGRadio: A quality production
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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes:
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The Essential Blender: Guide to 3D Creation with the Open Source Suite Blender
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The chapter on installing Blender was somewhat descriptive. It told me where the archive files were stored on the CD, but no actual installation instructions. I looked in vain for further hints and tips but none were to be found. As an old Debian hand now running Ubuntu on the desktop, I opened a terminal and a quick
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Microsoft's open-source rhetoric remains dangerously inconsistent
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In a recent interview, Microsoft's Bill Hilf talked about the company's strategy for using and competing with open-source software.
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Skype's beta videophone for Linux looks pretty good
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Skype recently released Skype 2.0 beta for Linux, which includes the ability to make video calls, a feature the Windows and Mac versions have had for some time. I tried the beta on two systems running Ubuntu 7.10 -- my desktop PC with a USB webcam and a MacBook Pro with its onboard iSight webcam -- with mixed results.
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What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?
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Okay, so it's not really free software news, but it's pretty funny anyway...
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Quanta - a web development IDE for KDE
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Quanta is a web development IDE for KDE which comes as part of the kdewebdev package.
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Firefox 3 Beta 1 is a winner
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Last night I downloaded the latest beta release from Mozilla, Firefox 3 Beta 1, meaning to just have a look-see so that I could pen a few impressions. Since then, I haven't bothered to load up Firefox 2 because, even though it's a pre-production test version, Firebox 3 Beta 1 is a mighty fine browser.
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Single user's how-to Subversion
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How to setup and use Subversion for project version control for a single user. Quick and inclusive guide from O'Reilly.
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emacspeak The Complete Audio Desktop: Announcing Emacspeak 27.0 AKA FastDog
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"...Emacspeak Inc (NASDOG: ESPK) announces the immediate world-wide availability of Emacspeak-27 --a powerful audio desktop for leveraging today's evolving data and service-oriented semantic Web..."
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AGPL and the future of open source
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"...After months of hard work, AGPL v3 has been finalized by the Free Software Foundation. [...] Funambol is obviously the first commercial open source company to embrace AGPL v3. I am happy to announce that our upcoming GA release of Funambol 6.5 will be based on AGPL v3. I believe AGPL will save open source..."
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Wiki collaboration to describe HTML5 microsyntaxes
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"...Based on IRC discussions, there is interest in producing the descriptions collaboratively. To that end, I have seeded the WHATWG wiki with a page for microsyntax descriptions. If you would like to help make validator messages better, please feel free to edit the wiki..."
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Inter-project collaboration: Amarok with Ampache integration
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This week something cool happened. Ok, something cool happens every week in Amarok land, but this week was something special. We teamed up with Karl Vollmer, lead developer of the very cool Ampache music server to create an Ampache service for Amarok2.
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