Linux-based guitar effects processors haven't exactly been flourishing recently. Until recently, the guitar FX processors page at linux-sound.org listed twelve projects, of which the most recent maintenance date is 2006. Clearly, not a flourishing domain for Linux audio developers.
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Movie download device runs embedded Linux framework
Trolltech announced that the Roku-developed Netflix Player streaming-media device incorporates its Qt for Embedded Linux development stack. Recently introduced by Netflix as a simplified embedded device version of its "Instant" movie downloading desktop software, the Netflix Player sells for $100.
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Mac OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard to be licensed under the GPL?
"I think that a GPL-ed Mac OS could provide a true alternative to several other OS'es." -Steve Jobs, WWDC 2008.
Stand back for a moment. A Mac running on a PC, and licensed under the GPL? The truth is much stranger than fiction.
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KDE 4.0 is NOT a failure; it is a place to start
There is an old saying that "Any press is good press", amongst the marketing types. Well, I was checking on KDE in various news sources today, and we must be getting a lot of "good" press. Is bad press still "good" press?
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IBM Accessibility Internet Browser for Multimedia
A tool that enables multimedia content on the Internet to be enjoyed by people with visual impairments.
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AtMail Open provides scalable, customizable webmail
Email: businesses can't stay competitive without it, but the bigger a company is, the more of a headache managing an email server can be. There are plenty of email management tools on the market, but many are expensive or lack easy customization.
Read more »Ubuntu Compared to Other Linux Distributions
Let's see how Ubuntu differs from other Linux Distributions - Redhat or Fedora, Debian ,Suse ,Knoppix.
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gPodder's no plodder when it comes to podcasts
Catch all of your podcasts in style with gPodder, a Python application designed to retrieve and organize your podcasts for easy playback.
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Fedora 9 Falls A Little Short
The Fedora Project is the free community release from enterprise Linux giant Red Hat. It's a testing ground really for a lot of new ideas which usually end up in the company's commercial Red Hat Enterprise products. I've used Fedora in the past on and off but for some reason it's never quite stuck with me. I've often found it buggy and a little too unstable due to it's experimental nature.
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Wine 1.0 Released
Well it has finally come to pass after long hours and lots of hard work...
The Wine team is proud to announce that Wine 1.0 is now available. This is the first stable release of Wine after 15 years of development and beta testing. Many thanks to everybody who helped us along that long road!
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CrossOver Office 7 Linux and Macintosh Released
I am pleased to announce that CodeWeavers has shipped CrossOver 7 for both Macintosh and Linux. New in Version 7 is support for Microsoft Office 2007, dramatically improved support for Outlook 2003 and Internet Explorer 6, and a broad range of improvements that should bring improvements to all Windows applications.
For our Linux customers, it also brings expanded support for most
Read more »Things I like about Slackware
If you've been reading this blog for awhile (or spent a few hours back in the archives), you know that I run Debian, Ubuntu, Puppy, OpenBSD and Damn Small Linux a lot.
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openSUSE 11.0: The Plasma Desktop
openSUSE 11.0 will be finally released on Thursday! The Sneak Peeks story about KDE has just been published and I want to follow up with a list how our Plasma desktop differs from the stock KDE 4.0 version.
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A Guide to Amarok 1.4.9.1
Amarok gained its huge popularity due to a vast number of features and very good functionality, like a complex collection management, support for iPod and several other MP3/OGG players, integration with Wikipedia, lyrics fetching, and another great number of features.
Read more »Firefox 3 Is Given to the World – Or Maybe Not
As you may have noticed, Firefox 3 is released today. Excited by this prospect, the first thing I did when I got up was to rush to my computer to download it (yes, pathetic, I know). And what do I find?
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