Enterprises are still in the early days of mobile application development, but the growing evidence suggests they should focus time and resources on cross-mobile-device applications. The problem is that with so many mobile devices and operating systems in play, IT just can't build for even a sampling, never mind the whole lot.
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Desktop Wallpaper Changer Wally
Most desktop wallpaper changers have one thing in common: They can cycle through a list of local wallpapers to display them alternately as background images on the computer system. Only a few wallpaper programs support the Internet.
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RHEL 6 - your sensible but lovable friend
The first major update for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in more than three years hit last month, and judging by the traffic that took down Red Hat's download servers, it's long over due.
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Compiz master testers needed
So we have about 95% of all the bugs fixed for a release and now we need YOUR help to identify the remaining bugs in git master before making the new development branch *official*.
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SCO Files MORs for March
SCO has filed its monthly operating reports for March. This the month they did the deal with Ralph Yarro, so we find out what they did first with that loan money. Pay themselves, of course, and their lawyers. And one of their experts.
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The IPI v. Red Hat and Novell Trial - Transcripts
I have a real treat for you. I have the trial transcripts from the IPI v. Red Hat and Novell patent litigation. As you know, the jury just ruled that the three asserted patents were not valid.
Read more »GNU/Linux Users Contribute Twice As Much As Windows Users
One of the companies behind The Humble Indie Bundle, Wolfire Games reports that GNU/Linux users contribute twice as much as Windows users !
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I Wish to Make a Complaint!
There are some areas in which it's a bit weak. Take one of my personal annoyances: setting up the screen. There is something very wrong with screen setup under Linux, and as often as not, I have spend far too long fiddling with text files in order to get a new install working. In short, it's just not good enough.
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Ex-Sun exec Padir turns focus to startup's open-source software
Karen Tegan Padir is an evangelist. Her gospel is open source software, and she recently changed denominations when she left Sun Microsystems Inc., where she was in charge of running the departments that determined the future of such ubiquitous Internet software as Java and MySQL.
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Ubuntu One Music Store Starts on the Wrong Foot
It's been more than a week since the much awaited release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and one of the features I was sure it was going to attract quite a crowd is having some problems - at least on my system.
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Neformal: A simple, casual audio player
Sometimes you want an application with a ton of options, and sometimes you just want to simplify. Many audio players, for instance, come with equalizers and visualizations, but if all you want is just to play the music, all you need is Neformal.
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Setting up an Ubuntu 9.10 chroot for Android OS builds
So the goal of this post will be to install a 32-bit chroot of 9.10 in my fresh install of 10.04 as 9.10 is easier to build and test Cyanogen's custom Android rom. I have modified some guides from here and here. I have also elected to use schroot as it allows for easy chroot access.
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Touch support in Qt 4.7
Nokia has released beta versions of Qt 4.7 and Qt Creator 2.0. The highlight of the new development line is Qt Quick, a tool collection for creating animated, touch-enabled Qt interfaces
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News In the GNU/Linux audio world
There's always something noteworthy happening in Linux audio development. This week's news includes reports about a new Linux audio blog, music made by particle acceleration, how to use a laptop as a virtual music stand, synth emulation from the terminal command prompt, and watching the Linux Audio Conference on-line.
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Taking Ubuntu Unity Interface For A Test Drive [Screenshots and Video]
The new Unity interface for Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition and Ubuntu Light will remind you of Gnome Shell, but Unity seems more usable, with the "dock" panel on the left. We took Ubuntu Unity interface for a test drive, so here are some screenshots and video I just took, as well as explainations on how the Unity dock works.
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