The most popular feature in openFATE (at least of this writing) is a proposal from KDE e.V. member Frank Karlitschek to make KDE the “default” in openSUSE. Michael Loeffler has also blogged about this and put it on the opensuse-project mailing list.
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Preview: Creative Zii EGG
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They call it the Zii EGG handheld, the first device running on the Plaszma open source platform (built on top of Linux) and utilizing the ZMS-05 chip. Apart from the amazing Zii stuff, it also comes with an accelerometer, WiFi, GPS, BlueTooth, 32GB internal storage, and an SD expansion slot. This being Creative, it also comes with Creative's X-Fi audio processing chip. Pretty darn impressive.
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Firefox nears 1 billion downloads
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Mozilla's Firefox is nearly a major milestone - 1 Billion downloads. That's BILLION with a B.
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OpenOffice Prototype User Interface
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The prototyping phase, to create a new user interface for OpenOffice.org, has ended last week.
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Take Fancy Screenshots With Shutter
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While the native screenshot applications found in most Linux distributions are fine for quick screengrabs, you need something heftier if you plan to highlight, annotate, resize or otherwise tinker with images.
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A new player in Linux music production
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I recently discovered a fairly new project that has an interesting take on Linux music production: the Open Octave Project. The goal of Open Octave is to provide an environment for audio and MIDI production specifically for orchestral music and film scoring.
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Why Code For Free? Yet More Linux/FOSS Devs Speak! (part 3)
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The headline says "Why Code For Free", but it's really more complicated than that because there are many FOSS developers who are paid to work on FOSS projects. In this final part of our series, more developers speak on the rewards of being part of the FOSS community.
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Yakuake : A pull down terminal for your desktop
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If you are addicted to doing things on terminal, yakuake is your friend. Yakuake is a KDE application and it takes the standard KDE Konsole and changes it to a drop-down, on-demand terminal over your desktop and applications. This is a very handy little application
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How Wolfram Alpha could change software (They think they own search results)
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But that's not all that separates Wolfram Alpha from traditional search engines. Try cutting and pasting from the results page. You can't.
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Choosing the right Linux File System Layout using a Top-Bottom Process
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In this article, I will give some reasons for a better consideration of the file-system and of its layout. I will suggest a top-bottom process for the design of a ``smart'' layout that remains as stable as possible over time for a given computer usage.
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Red Hat to step up developer efforts
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Red Hat will step up its efforts to help drive developer contribution and remains unfazed by desktop competition, according to its chief executive Jim Whitehurst.
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why you should keep multiple gcc versions around (a case study in stupidity)
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So i bumped dev-libs/cloog-ppl to a newer version just now. cloog-ppl (and it's buddy PPL) are new dependencies of the new Graphite framework in GCC 4.4 (still masked). They're optional dependencies, and on a whim I wanted to see if configure would fail if they were missing or just detect it and continue on. So I did this...
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3 Dockbar like applications for Linux / Mac OS X / Windows
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In the past, the dock bar has been just an appearance enhancer in operating systems. In truth, the dock bar can provide you more if you want it to.
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Russia Continues Migration to GNU/Linux in Government, Microsoft Creates New Prevention Measures
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As authorities continue to attain autonomy, Microsoft creates unit of global alliances
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Is Anyone at OLPC Actually Doing Windows-on-XO work?
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Last week's story about Nicholas Negroponte saying that Sugar should have been an application and the inevitable subsequent Slashdot story created a lively discussion in many places. Among them was also the OLPC devel mailing-list where Carlos Nazareno asked a related question: "Is anyone actually doing Windows on XO work here?"
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