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Read more »First Android-based TV unveiled
A Swedish firm called People of Lava has announced what appears to be the world's first Android-powered TV. The Scandinavia Window to the World TV runs Android 1.5 on a Cortex-A8 processor, and offers HD with 1920 x 1080 resolution, available in 42-, 47-, and 55-inch models, says the company.
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gEdit and Leafpad Make a Good Text-Editing Team
It's no longer a hard-copy world, and most writing tasks don't require all the bells and whistles in heavyweight word processing programs. Text editors are a much more nimble choice. However, not all text editors are alike.
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Report: 37% less VC funding for open source in 2009
Venture capital investment in open source vendors dropped by 37% in 2009, but fared better than the overall software sector according to a new 451 Group report
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Another one-disk wonder: DexOS
At times I am still amazed by Linux distros or even full-blown independent operating systems that scale down so completely and cleanly as to fit on a single floppy disk.
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FreeBSD 7.3-release update: It's going better than I expected
I've been running FreeBSD for more than a week now - first 8.0-release, now 7.3-release (with packages for some reason coming from 7-stable), and as the title of this post says, it's going very well. I started with the idea that I'd run the full GNOME desktop with all the apps I used in Debian, and I pretty much have that setup.
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Is your tv running Linux? (yet)
Some manufacturers are using Linux for their television sets, Sony for instance has a impressive list of tv's which are running Linux. There are also some televisions which can actually be hacked into to unlock extra features.
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DragonFly BSD 2.6.1 with new swapcache released
DragonFly BSD, the FreeBSD fork, has been updated to version 2.6.1 and incorporates a added a number of new features whilst updating the components of the clustering oriented operating system
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How to install Latest Version of Wine in Ubuntu Linux
The Wine development release 1.1.42 is now available.
What's new in this release (see below for details):
- Support for shared 32/64-bit setups.
- Dwarf debug info support for better backtraces.
- More standard actions supported in MSI.
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How to Install Openshot Non-Linear Video Editor in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Kola
The Most Popular Non-Linear Video Editor for Linux Operating system is Openshot Non-Linear Video Editor. Openshot Non-Linear Video Editor.is included in the ubuntu 10.04 (lucid).
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Opera alerts EU to hidden Windows browser-ballot
Just when it seemed like Microsoft's European anti-trust tangle on browser choice in Windows was over, trouble is stirring again. Opera Software has told The Reg that it has informed the European Union of a possible problem with a fix that was designed to make Internet Explorer in Windows comply with EU antitrust law. Opera has also informed Microsoft.
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Report: Android gaining market share
According to a February 2010 Mobile Subscriber Market Share report from US market research firm comScore, Google's smarpthone OS has grown more than 5 percentage points since November of last year
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Create Cool ASCII Text Banners from the Linux Terminal
Create Cool ASCII Text Banners from the Linux Terminal: We have watched Star Wars ASCII animation from the Linux Terminal before. But do you know that from there you can also create cool text graphics or banners that are made up of ASCII characters, which you can use as email signature or simply show off to friends? Yes you can, and the easiest way to do this would be to install FIGlet.
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Can Songbird survive as a gateway drug?
This news, posted to the official SongBird blog last Friday, came as a shocking slap in the face to someone who only recently freed his music library from the clutches of iTunes. Songbird was the logical choice to prepare for my eventual immersion in Linux, and now Songbird’s future on that OS is no more.
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Loading external model in Papervision3D
it's an experiment with flash , 3dstudiomax and papervision3D. Papervision3D is an open source 3D engine for flash .
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