While thinking of the next article for the Open Sound Series, I was listening to some music via Ampache. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Ampache, it is simply a piece of software that allows you to upload, download, and stream music (and now videos) from a collection of media residing on a server.
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Tab Candy - New Firefox 4.0 Innovation That Has Every Potential To Become an Industry Standard
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Though still in its initial stages of development, Tab Candy is an interesting new Firefox 4.0 feature, which has every potential to get adopted by every single browser out there. Like for example, the tabs itself were invented by Opera, and now it's a default and a must have feature in web browsers.
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The New Ubuntu (10.10) Font Available For (almost) Everyone
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After finally getting the bold version last week, the Ubuntu font which will be default in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat is finally available for (almost) everyone. Why almost? Here is an email from the Kubuntu-users mailing list:
Members of the ~kubuntu-users team on launchpad can now test out the Ubuntu Font which is currently in beta testing. Anyone can join this team.
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Sabayon 5.3 review
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Sabayon is a multi-purpose, Gentoo-based Linux distribution. It is part-source, part-binary distribution. I just call it a hybrid distribution. The latest update, Sabayon 5.3, was made available to the public in early June.
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Ubuntu's two big advantages over Windows and Mac
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I’ve been using the latest version (10.04) of Ubuntu Linux since April and there’s a lot to like about it. Today I want to talk about two significant advantages that Ubuntu has over Windows 7 and Mac OS X.
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Starcraft 2 on Linux with Wine
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Okie dokie, so Ive mentioned before that I play Starcraft 2 under my Linux install with no issues. Since the games official release a few days ago I have been getting a good bit of traffic on those two pages so I figured I would put together a quick HOWTO for getting Starcraft 2 working on your Linux distro of choice.
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Mark Shuttleworth said, “Moving everything to the left opens up the space on the right nicely, and I would like to experiment in 10.10 with some innovative options there.” So if you guys are wondering what did he even meant by that, you have take a look at this.
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Gereqi - Yet Another Amarok 1.4 Clone That Just Works
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For Amarok 1.4 lovers, there is more good news. Gereqi is yet another Amarok 1.4 fork, which is still in its early stages of development. And it is already looking good.
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Cover-thumbnailer - Displays music album covers in nautilus
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Cover Thumbnailer is a small Python script which displays music album covers in nautilus, preview of pictures which are in a folder and more.
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Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 11.3 (LAMP)
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LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an OpenSUSE 11.3 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.
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Google fixes critical vulnerabilities in Chrome 5
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Google has released version 5.0.375.125 of Chrome, a security update that addresses three "high" risk vulnerabilities in its WebKit-based browser
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Novell Launching App Store for SUSE Linux Appliances
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Novell is preparing to launch an app store called SUSE Gallery. It's designed to help partners and customers find SUSE Linux software appliances that fulfill specific business application needs. Plus, SUSE Gallery effort shows signs that Novell and VMware will continue their joint attack on Red Hat. Here's the scoop.
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Kongoni GNU/Linux 1.12.3 RC2 (Cicero) is out in the wild
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A major modification done to Kongoni, is moving from the classic kernel, found at kernel.org to the FSF kernel, which has removed all of the non-free firmware. Also removed from git repository any trace of non-free software and firmware. Kongoni now uses GRUB2 as the default boot loader and also has a very good OS detection setup. KDE updated to 4.4.5, GNU IceCat 3.6.8.
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Ailurus 10.07.6 is released and installation instructions included
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Ailurus is a simple application installer, and GNOME tweaker. Ailurus helps to reduce the difficulty people encounter when they are using Linux. Ailurus also promotes other elegant open-source software which has not entered official repository. With 10 developers (engineers and students), Ailurus is being rapidly developed.
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Nokia's treatment of MeeGo smartphone UI revealed?
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The one minute, twenty-nine seconds of footage walks us through five parts -- starting up, the "powerful multitasking UI," getting connected, the Ovi Store experience, and the music player -- and as you might imagine, it's the Ovi Store portion that has us feeling like this is a thoroughly Nokia-customized experience.
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