After a year's development, a new, stable version 3.0 of Google's open source Chrome browser is now available. Developers promise "significant speed improvements," although current beneficiaries are Windows Vista and XP users only.
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Hewlett Packard’s Linux Systems
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Perhaps they are concerned about staying in Microsoft’s good graces, they have been slow about adopting Linux as an alternative on the computers that they sell to the public. But their has been some progress.
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...and now using Ubuntu
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So I burned the downloaded Kubuntu ISO, and sat to install it on my Inspiron 6400. The install process wasn't that bad. Point and click, with a bit of uneasy extra wait at the keyboard mapping selection screen. But it was the after-installation time that was totally bad.
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KOffice To Be Used In Next Generation Smart Phone
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Today Nokia employee Thomas Zander announced in his blog that Nokia will be using KOffice as a base for the office file viewer in Maemo 5.
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Please Reinstate the OS Wars
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All the glass clicking and cheers of late surrounding the apparent conversion of Microsoft to the open source fold needs to stop. We need the Cold War. We need Communism. And, yes, we need the OS Wars.
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How To: Take Screenshots With Shutter
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Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program. You can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website – apply different effects to it, draw on it to highlight points, and then upload to an image hosting site, all within one window.
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DragonFly BSD 2.4 released
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Developer Matthew Dillon has announced the release of version 2.4 of DragonFly BSD, originally created as a fork from FreeBSD 4.x. The major release includes several bug fixes, performance improvements and a new 64-bit port.
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10 Reasons Why Chrome OS Will Outshine Nokia, Linux on Netbooks
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Google's Chrome operating system is poised to hit the Web. But can it beat out competing Linux distributions? You bet.
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Sculpting Sound with Boodler 2.0
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Boodler is a cross-platform audio tool with which you can construct and play back sound streams composed in a simple, Python-based syntax.
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First Moblin v2 netbook launches
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The first netbook preinstalled with Moblin v2 for Netbooks will likely launch next week, possibly at Intel's Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco. Following that, the Moblin Project will release the first milestone release of the Moblin v2 Linux distribution, which began beta testing in May.
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Cool things with SELinux... Introducing sandbox -X
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This allows administrators to take untrusted content, run it through one or more filters, and be able to trust that the content can't cause the filter programs to do evil things.
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Open source camera could pave the way for open source hardware
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Mr. Levoy developed the camera so that other computational photographers could help improve the software. His idea is just short of brilliant. And it perfectly illustrates the power of open source. How? Think about it...
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jQuery (mb)Gallery: Image Gallery With An Inline Thumbnail Browser
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jQuery (mb)Gallery is a jQuery plugin for creating image galleries with a slideshow feature.
It is possible to present the galleries in any way wanted & adding a link to display them in the main gallery viewer.
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Software Freedom Day Marked in Accra
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"Accra, Sept. 19, GNA – The software Freedom Day 2009 was marked in Accra on Saturday with a call on businesses to deploy *free software* products in their operations to become competitive..."
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Cloud Computing Is Not Killing Open Source Anywhere - A Response To Gartner
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Couple of weeks back, Andrea Di Maio of Gartner wrote a blog post arguing that cloud computing is killing open source in the government.
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