The Amarok team is giving away an iAudio player. Kudos to them, but also to Cowon, a company that has boldly proclaimed support for GNU/Linux for some time now.
Read more »A Status Update on the Linux Versions of ETQW
I'm Timothee Besset, the Programmer at id Software in charge of the Linux versions of Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars as part of the ongoing support for the game.
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Novell Open Audio: openSUSE 10.3
As part of a Novell Open Audio series on openSUSE, they will be interviewing various openSUSE developers to find out more about the project, particular involvements and new technologies in the distribution. Today’s interview features a talk with Martin Lasarsch, an openSUSE evangelist.
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If I Were in Charge of...
We have also been hard at times towards all of the big commercial vendors: Red Hat, IBM, Sun, Novell, Mandriva, Canonical, Dell, HP... the list goes on. How often, though, do we get a chance to step up and offer a positive suggestion to these companies?
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I have just been blown away by Linux....Again!!!!
Here I was happily fiddling around with my Kubuntu installation and at a critical time when the initrd image was being regenerated our fabled standard of stable electricity supply decided to cut out. Not surprising as it does that every time a mosquito sneezes.
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Open Source Phishing: A Call To Arms
Recently consumer auction giant eBay announced that nearly 1,200 registered eBay users information was stolen via phishing attacks. That’s not shocking. What’s shocking is that it’s very likely the phishers were using rootkitted Linux boxes. They expected the attacks to come from Microsoft boxes. This time that’s not the case.
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IceApe
"Lately, I’ve caught the IceApe bug (IceApe is a rebranded/renamed Mozilla Seamonkey), and I’d like to share my enthusiasm about it..."
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In Responce to: Ten Ways to Make More Humane Open Source Software...
"...Free software is a political movement that is not only about producing software that’s source code is ‘open’, but it’s vision is a free society & free software. The term OSS gives too much emphasis to the source code being available, and not enough emphasis to freedom.
Read more »France: € 311,85 Remboursement For MS-Tax
A French court ruled that Acer had to pay back € 311,85 for an unwanted operating system and software on a € 599,-- notebook.
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What is Compiz?
Compiz is a window manager, that means it takes care of all the basic needs to interact with the windows on your desktop - like moving, minimizing and resizing.
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Is Transgaming Dumping Linux In Favor Of Apple?
Almost two weeks ago, Blizzard Entertainment pushed through a required World of Warcraft patch that made the game unplayable for many Linux users, reducing frame rates to unacceptable levels, causing distorted sound, and making the OpenGL graphics engine more difficult to switch to. Considering TransGaming's history of rapidly addressing WoW patch issues, this is unusual behavior.
Read more »OpenOffice vs. Lotus Symphony
The strengths of IBM Lotus Symphony are also its weaknesses. Based on the OpenOffice.org source code, on the one hand, the beta of this newly released office application offers a much needed revision of the interface. On the other hand, too much of this revision takes the form of leaving out features, and the changes are accompanied by high hardware demands.
Read more »Linux-based airline seat-back entertainment system is a winner
The Linux-based eX2 in-flight entertainment system (IFE) from Panasonic Avionics was the big winner at this year's Avion Awards, sponsored by an IFE trade group. The Best Overall IFE awards went to Emirates, Singapore Airlines and Cathay Pacific Airways, all running variants of eX2.
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Kelley Graham of Toasterz Talks About Appliances, Migration and More
Blue GNU caught up with Kelley Graham, of Toasterz, to find out about his company's business appliances, migration and education work.
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Woman fined $US220,000 for sharing 24 songs
Some shadowy ring of Ip-criminals ripping off the industry for millions of dollars? No, just a poor, single mother of three, who shared a few songs on the internet. How will the soulless, greedy industry operatives benefit? More high-grade nose-candy, and new Porsches for all.
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