I honestly thought that the hardest part of editing video on my Linux Mint computer would be capturing the video footage to my hard drive. Turns out I was wrong. Very wrong.
Read more »Three strikes with Ubuntu video editors
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Design & build your own open source device
But let's say a fairy godmother came along (the good one, not the evil one) and made all these problems go away. Would you design your own gadget then? Of course you would. And all you need are some affordable hardware components and this guide to set you off on the right foot...
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Six open source projects you should be using
The employees who do the actual work in IT can use all the help they can get; these open source tools are handier than most
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Salix OS 13.1.1 Screenshots
Today users were greeted by the Salix OS 13.1.1 release. Salix OS is based on Slackware and includes Xfce as its desktop environment. This latest release of Salix OS includes several enhancements over its previous release including Lilosetup, a graphical tool for settings up the Lilo bootloader, a few graphical system administration tools have been added, and more.
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August 2010 Issue of The PCLOS Magazine
The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the August 2010 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine. In this issue: Linux IS Ready For The Desktop, Video Encoding: Step-By-Step, and Screenshot Showcase.
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Red Hat vs. Ubuntu: Why upstream comitts matter
If you need something fixed or done, then you make that contribution upstream. Doing everything upstream is the only way that Linux will remain un-fragmented. Without upstream there is no Linux community.
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Marave - Distraction Free Writing
The never-ceasing distractions of tweets, pokes on Facebook, Gmail spam to review are all enemies of writing. Was there ever an activity assailed by the vampires of impetuosity as much as writing?
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FLOSS and software patents: if you can't beat 'em, join 'em
At the Linux Foundation's annual LinuxCon event this week, Columbia University law professor and Software Freedom Law Center founder Eben Moglen explained that prospects for software patent reform are bleak and that the time has come for the free software community to start finding ways to solve its patent problems by using the patent system itself.
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Backtrack 4 R1 Screenshots
Once I noticed Backtrack 4 R1 included significant improvements like the Linux Kernel 2.6.34, updated tools, expanded hardware support, and a full Fluxbox desktop environment, I decided to scout it out for myself. Here are some screenshots of this Backtrack 4 R1 release.
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SSH Tunneling On Android
If you want to have a secure browsing environment or just want to access your home network securely without exposing extra services to the internet and without the mess that comes with setting up and maintaining a VPN server, ssh tunneling is your rescuer. This post will tell you how to setup an ssh tunnel to your home network easily step-by-step.
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Connecting iPhone to Linux Using OpenSSH and FileZilla
Connecting iPhone to Linux Using OpenSSH and FileZilla: If you have a jailbroken iPhone, you can only harness its full power if you can connect with it remotely and transfer files to and from the device using your computer.
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Report: Android Market surpasses 100,000 apps
According to AndroLib, Google's Android Market for mobile applications has surpassed 100,000 applications, although Google's most recent numbers from mid-July put the figure closer to 70,000
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Trimage - A cross-platform tool for losslessly optimizing PNG and JPG files
Trimage is a cross-platform GUI and command-line interface to optimize image files via optipng, advpng and jpegoptim, depending on the filetype (currently, PNG and PG files are supported). It was inspired by imageoptim. All image files are losslessy compressed on the highest available compression levels.
Read more »BCS Linux-baiting sparks flame war
An article on open source security has sparked off a furious backlash in the normally polite and businesslike world of a British Computer Society journal. Commentards have reacted furiously to a piece by Steve Smith, managing director of IT security consultancy Pentura, in the July Edition of ITNow.
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