Google has added an experimental branch to the VP8 code tree, encouraging developers to begin work on the next incarnation of its newly open sourced video codec.
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Moonlight 3.0 Approaches With New Features
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Moonlight, the de facto open-source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight platform for Linux that leverages Mono, is nearing its 3.0 release. Moonlight 2.0 was just released a half-year ago, but Moonlight 3.0 Preview 7 was just released and it's offering up more features.
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Red Hat CEO: Cloud Can’t Exist Without Open Source
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Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst (pictured) says open source can exist without cloud computing, but cloud computing can’t exist without open source.
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Backup up your GoogleMail locally with getmail
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To the chagrin of their competitors, GoogleMail seems to have become almost as synonymous with webmail as Google has with search engine If you lose access to Google service or to your account then you lose your e-mails. Fear not oh free software lover, help is at hand in the form of the very useful getmail.
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Gnaural – An opensource binaural-beat generator
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Gnaural is an opensource programmable auditory binaural-beat generator, implementing the principle as described in the October 1973 Scientific American article "Auditory Beats in the Brain" by Gerald Oster. The central theme of Oster's article was that processing of binaural beats involves different neural pathways than conventional hearing.
Read more »8 of the Best Online Backup Services for Linux
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A remote or online backup service has become quite an important tool for those of us who travel a lot and require some of our files on the cloud for easy access anytime and any place with Internet connection. I have here a list of some of the best online or remote backup services for Linux.
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Gnomenu 2.8 released and ubuntu installation instructions included
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GnoMenu - A consolidated menu for gnome that brings eye candy to the world of the Gnome menu's. Fully functional menu , supports themes , for a composited or non composited desktop. It can emulate the look and feel of the most beautiful menus of most modern desktops, and it can also custom menus, due to its powerful theme XML engine.
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GoogleCL: Manage Any Google Service Via Command Line
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GoogleCL is a command line tool to manage all the Google services: you can upload photos to your PicasaWeb albums, post to your Blogger blog, modify Google Calendar events, add contacts, manage your Google Docs (upload, delete, and so on) and even upload videos to YouTube. Unfortunately it doesn't come with support for Gmail.
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How to add an icon to apps in Ubuntus’ Application-menu that only show a generic icon
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Have you ever installed an application "manually" (not via Synaptic or Update-Manager, but by compiling it yourself and using some kind of installer-script for example)? And were you annoyed that only a generic icon was shown in Ubuntus' Applications-menu? If so, this tip is for you.
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The GNU/Linux Advanced Administration
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The GNU/Linux systems have reached an important level of maturity, allowing to integrate them in almost any kind of work environment, from a desktop PC to the sever facilities of a big company.
In this ebook "The GNU/Linux Operating System", the main contents are related with system administration.
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Meet CUBRID: One of Korea’s Top Open Source Projects
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CUBRID team participated at the MySQL Conference earlier this year. The outcomes were incredibly valuable for CUBRID! One of the very active CUBRID enthusiasts at the conference was Alolita Sharm, an Open Source Initiative Director and CEO of Technetra.
Read more »Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 13 (LAMP)
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LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a Fedora 13 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.
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An introduction to CrossOver Office and Games for FreeBSD
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CrossOver for FreeBSD is a commercial variant of Wine released by CodeWeavers with (currently) limited support for many of today's most popular office application and games. CrossOver Office and Games for FreeBSD is tested for performance and stability with many of todays most popular games such as Guild Wars, Eve Online, and Steam games like Half-Life 2 and Portal.
Read more »Weekend Project: Configure Your Keyboard Into Submission
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Modern Linux desktop environments make the basic keyboard configuration process far simpler than it used to be, but it is still confusing.
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Tip of the YEAR for Fedora and Red Hat/CentOS users
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I'm calling this the tip of the year because it's easy to do and dramatically improves the Web-browsing experience in Firefox for users of Fedora, Red Hat and CentOS. I wish I had figured it out years ago because it's a simple way to increase your scrolling speed in the browser.
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