Novell is a company that has run out of ideas. That's not to say it doesn't have some good software, or that there aren't some very good people working there. But the fact is that despite having SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) and much else to offer, Novell is a company going nowhere fast.
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Qt Multimedia/Mobility vs. Phonon: FIGHT!!!
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Well it's not really like that, but I guess those involved can think about it a bit like that at times!
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Paris Descartes University's UFR Biomédicale turns to Mandriva
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Paris Descartes University's UFR Biomédicale has installed the Mandriva Linux operating system on client desktops and servers to ensure a permanent stability and optimise the work of its 4,500 students.
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Wine 1.2-rc2 Released
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The Wine development release 1.2-rc2 is now available.
There are no new features in this release, only bug fixes, since we are in code freeze. If you find a new feature that's a bug.
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Valve's Linux Play May Lead More Games To Follow Suit
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Brought up in the Phoronix Forums yesterday by a reader was a reference to Ryan Gordon's resume that he was contracted to port Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 to Linux. This led a Phoronix reader to email Ryan "Icculus" Gordon and now we managed to get our hands on Ryan's e-mail response.
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What's the faster browser on Earth?
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We seem to be having a browser week here at OMG! towers. With all that in mind I couldn’t help but stoke the ever-tender embers of one question that continues to be a red-hot topic: “What is the fastest browser on Linux?”
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I've Installed Linux, Now What?
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Time to enter the Wayback Machine to an experience I had with a new Linux user and compare it to today's more tech savvy audience. The year was 1997 and I had settled in for the evening with my favorite beverage and a bit of channel flipping, when I received a telephone call from a guy who'd installed Linux on his computer.
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Logs: Your Linux System's Lovable Worker Bees
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Can't bring yourself to love logs? You should take a second look. The lowly and lonely log files sit there day after day gathering dust and events as your system purrs along without issue. That is, until something bad happens.
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HTML5 Video on Ubuntu
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With my professional life having quieted down a lot recently, I finally got a chance to play with something I've been meaning to try since the winter: HTML5 video on Ubuntu. The results made me pretty happy.
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Five Usability Improvements in Ubuntu 10.04
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Recent Ubuntu releases have introduced major changes, including a new theme, a new application stack and - gasp - a new position for window buttons. But Karmic and Lucid also included a number of tiny usability enhancements that you might not have noticed, but which are central to making Ubuntu a Linux distribution for human beings. Here's a look at five of them.
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GIMP vs. The World
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High-end graphics editing in the commercial world has been defined by Adobe's Photoshop. It is so dominant and so prevalent that the name is frequently used as a verb, as in the line from the movie Cheaper by the Dozen "We'll photoshop her in later." In the free and open source world the standard of comparison is GIMP.
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Newly open source BitTorrent protocol aims to unclog tubes
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The company behind the BitTorrent technology has opened the source code of its uTorrent Transport Protocol (uTP). A production-ready implementation of the protocol code in C++ is now available from GitHub under the MIT license.
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Fix for ALSA API Applications
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A lot of people seem to be experiencing issues with ALSA apps (like Flash) on PulseAudio-enabled systems. Common issues include programs locking/"hogging" the ALSA sound device (prevents other apps from mixing and using the audio device) and also apps trying to use the ALSA software mixer (dmix).
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KOffice 2.2 Released
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This release brings an unprecedented number of new features and bugfixes. Kexi, the database management application, is back. New framework for effects on shapes, with 11 effects included. New import filters for MS Office 2007 formats. There are also many performance improvements and improvements to OpenDocument Format (ODF) handling.
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Fedora 13 – Linux for Applephobes
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With its music store and cloud syncing services, Ubuntu 10.04 tends to eclipse Fedora in the minds of many. Not that Fedora project leader Paul Frields minds. Fedora is intended "first and foremost for users interested in and capable of contributing to open source."
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