Mozilla has unveiled a spectacular new concept browser, dubbed Aurora. The bleeding-edge browser is part of a new Mozilla Labs initiative, in which the open-source foundation is encouraging people to contribute ideas and designs for the browser of the future.
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gOS 3.0 goes Gadget crazy
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gOS today announced release 3 of its Google-oriented consumer Linux distro, adding support for Google Gadgets. gOS 3 Gadgets offers access to more than 100,000 iGoogle and Google Gadgets, says the company, and also preloads WINE 1.0 and the LXDE (Lightweight X Desktop Environment) desktop.
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Get Your Webcam Working with GSPCA
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Webcams are notorious for their lack of support under Linux. But thanks to GSPCA, many webcams now have functional V4L drivers. This tutorial covers the building, installation, and configuration of the GSPCA drivers, including how to adjust color balance and brightness directly at the kernel module level.
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Wired-Marker Highlights Text on Web Pages
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Firefox extension Wired-Marker permanently highlights text on web pages. Unlike web-based highlighters or offline options like previously-mentioned Scrapbook, Wired-Highligher is a hybrid of online and offline highlighting.
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How to Set WinAmp equalizer presets in Banshee 1.2
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The Winamp equalizers presets are the best equalizer settings I have found. The following guide will get the default WinAmp presets working under Banshee 1.2.
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Portrait: Michelle Murrain lives the open source lifestyle
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Michelle Murrain is a great example of what the FOSS community is all about. She's complicated: she calls herself a "scientist turned technologist turned theologian turned writer," all blended into one person. She's also an active supporter of and contributor to open source software projects.
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A fast, fast-booting, implementation of GNOME aimed at netbooks and older hardware has emerged, and shows "a lot of promise." LXDE has already stacked up a heap of distribution partners.
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Turn OpenOffice.org into a Web-editing tool with ODF@WWW
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Imagine being able to open any Web page on your server in OpenOffice.org, edit it, and save the changes back to the server by pressing the Save button. It may sound too good to be true, but that's exactly what the ODF@WWW project is set to achieve.
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Hamster Time Tracking for GNOME
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Hamster is a time tracking tool that runs as a GNOME panel applet. With Hamster, you can track what you're doing, when you're doing it, and for how long easily and right from your panel. Hamster will be included in GNOME version 2.24, and likely also in Ubuntu 8.10.
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Linspire is going away
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Linspire, the distribution originally launched as Lindows, is no more, says Xandros CEO Andreas Typaldos.
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Virtual Box - How to Install & Configure in openSUSE
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VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
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List of BitTorrent clients Available in Ubuntu Linux
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A BitTorrent client is a program that manages torrent downloads and uploads using the BitTorrent protocol.
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What if Linux Took a Vista 'Mojave' Test?
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With the perceived success by Microsoft regarding their Mojave experiment (at least in the eyes of Microsoft PR reps), I found myself wondering how today's popular desktop Linux distributions might do under identical circumstances.
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First Look: Mozilla Snowl
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hot on the heels of Mozilla Lab’s call for participation in exploring the future of the browser, and the experimental Weave service, comes Mozilla’s efforts to move messaging beyond email and to the types of communication now commonplace across social networks, blogs and services such as Twitter.
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TrueCrypt - Free opensource on the fly Disk Encryption tool
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TrueCrypt is a free opensource software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device). On-the-fly encryption means that data are automatically encrypted or decrypted right before they are loaded or saved, without any user intervention.
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