FOSDEM - a geek trip to Brussels. Going abroad to experience different cultures. Or at least, a chance to eat chips, suffer rain, and watch American TV in a different country.
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Making a videoloop with Kino and Audacity
In my recent article on QDVDAuthor, I skipped over the task of making a videoloop for the main DVD menu. Here I’m going to show you how I did it. The goal is a short loop of video that smoothly transitions through five different video segments and back to the beginning again.
Read more »Canonical Launches Ubuntu Single Sign On
Canonical has launched a new service, dubbed Ubuntu Single Sign On. The effort seeks to simplify and unify all login services for all Ubuntu-related sites. Sound like a good idea? Here's the deal...
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Does Open Source really hate windows?
What is it with Open Source, more commonly Linux advocates, and windows? There seems to be an underlying theme amongst this crowd that they hate windows. They say that windows 5ux0r35 or mention it as windaze, windoze, winblows and many other derogatory terms and spelling plays.
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Is Open Source Too Open for its Own Good?
While I was at linux.conf.au 2010 last month, I finally met Ted Ts'o, one of the most senior figures in the Linux world, and, like many of them, now working for Google. Indeed, few people go further back in the world of Linux than Ts'o.
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Has Linux Mint Killed Distrohopping?
Back in the old days, Linux used to be a tough cookie to get installed. These days, it's more or less a snap to get Linux working on your computer. Perhaps a little too simple.
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Issues Within The X.Org Foundation?
For the past two weeks elections have been going on by X.Org members to elect five people to serve as board of directors for the X.Org Foundation, the formal 501(c)(3) organization that backs the development of the X.Org project. Since the elections started there has been a rather explosive mailing list discussion.
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10 Best Linux Distributions in 2010
Before telling you about the Best Linux Distributions or Distros available for 2010, you have to tell me what kind of user you are. There are several types of Distributions meant a particular working condition and there are also several types of Distros that are created for certain type of users.
Read more »Business Software Alliance (BSA) is Not Good for Free Software
Response to a new claim that the BSA is good for Free Software (the reality is more complex than it may seem)
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Please Don’t Compare Microsoft Vapourware to Today’s GNU/Linux
Improper comparisons even from Linux-branded Web sites are only helping Microsoft sell fantasy
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KJots Takes Advantage of Innovations in the KDE Development Platform
Work on porting KJots to Akonadi started a long time ago (around summer 2008!), and that effort is reaching a milestone this week. The ported version of KJots has been merged into trunk for the next release of the KDE Software Compilation where work will continue on it to refine features and fix bugs.
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Boxee Beta Updates with Over 500 of Squashed Bugs
If you've been using the recently released Boxee Beta media center but found it to be a bit on unusable side of buggy (at least one Lifehacker writer felt that way), good news: Boxee just released an update to Boxee Beta, and while the update doesn't have any new features, it's overflowing with bug fixes (over 500 resolved issues in total).
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Use Live USB Creator to install Fedora 12 from a USB stick
Vincent Danen walks you through the use of the Live USB Creator tool to install or boot Fedora 12 from a USB drive.
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Video: Android and Linux Kernel
At FOSDEM 2010 in Brussels, Linux Magazine Online pulled Android commentator Jan Wildeboer and kernel staging tree maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman away from the daily events to talk with them on camera.
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Regular Expressions In grep
How do I use the Grep command with regular expressions under Linux operating systems?
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