The OpenOffice.org conference celebrating the tenth birthday of OpenOffice.org started in Budapest yesterday morning. Here are some first notes from the field.
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What's the best Linux BitTorrent app?
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Not all BitTorrent apps are made equal. Yes, there's a big range of features such as support for encryption and random port access, but at the same there's also a huge range of speeds -
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A Guide to Today's Top 10 Linux Distributions
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One of the most confusing things for the newcomer to Linux is how many distributions, or versions, of the operating system there are. What follows, then, is a roundup of sorts of the top 10 Linux distributions today.
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Automating your Android Phone with SL4A
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Back in Part 1 we learned how flexible and script-able Android is, and installed the SL4A scripting layer. Today Paul Ferrill teaches more about how to write custom Android scripts.
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Nautilus Terminal Embeds A Terminal Into Nautilus (Dolphin Style)
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This is a Nautilus extension which embeds the terminal into the Nautilus window. And just like it is with Dolphin, when you navigate to a different folder, the terminal also "cd"s into that folder.
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Virtualbox 3.2.8 released and ubuntu installation instructions included
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Oracle released VirtualBox 3.2.8, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 3.2 which improves stability and fixes regressions.
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8 of the Best Free Linux Personal Information Managers
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A personal information manager (often known as a PIM tool) is a type of collaborative software that can help you manage your life by offering personal organising functionality. This type of software enables you to more efficiently manage and plan your business and personal life by keeping track of contact information, appointments, tasks, diaries, to-do lists, and birthdays.
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Ubuntu 10.10 Beta (Maverick Meerkat) Released and Download links included
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The Ubuntu developers are moving quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source community has to offer. The Maverick Meerkat Beta is the beta release of Ubuntu 10.10, bringing with it new features for the next version of Ubuntu.
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Ubuntu Tip : Installing New Lock Dialog Theme on Lucid/Karmic
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For the last couple of ubuntu versions, gnome-screensaver, which is also the gnome screen-locking program, has been using gtkbuilder .ui files for configuration; unfortunately almost all of the third-party themes (e.g. on gnome-look.org) use .glade files. Here's how to convert a .glade file to a .ui file for use with current versions of gnome-screensaver:
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Google Chrome gets GPU power
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It was bound to happen. Google is now roping in the power of hardware acceleration to boost the performance of its Chrome browser. In a post on the Chromium blog late last week the Chromium developers announced that they would add GPU (graphics processing unit) support to future editions of the Chrome browser, bringing Google's application in line with other major browsers.
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Songbird 1.8.0 adds support for more devices
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Three months after the previous update, the Songbird project has released version 1.8.0 of its open source media player, adding support for USB mass storage device class (also known as USB MSC or UMS) on Mac OS X systems and a number of new devices
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Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Beta - Overview & Screenshots
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We're less than one month until the next Ubuntu release, 10.10. Maverick Meerkat, as it is codenamed, is scheduled for release on October 10, 2010, and, as always, Canonical put out a beta calling for users to test-drive it and report problems and bugs.
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Webcam server with Linux - 2 (Zoneminder and webcam-server)
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My guide on how to make a webcam server has had a lot of feedback and so I decided to give two other methods to achieve it with two different software webcam-server and ZoneMinder Webcam-server is absolutely the easiest way to show on the net what is seen from your webcam, the software is very stable (I’ve just installed Ubuntu, and shows the date 2004) is based on Java and to make it work is en
Read more »Google Wave Freed As Open Source Project
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Google recently terminated Wave, but instead of purging the code the company will be releasing the source code of the project.
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Free RTS Game for Linux: Warzone 2100
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Warzone 2100 is a free, open-source real-time strategy game available for Linux, Windows and Mac. This game was originally closed-source, developed by Pumpkin Studios and published by Eidos Interactive in 1999, but in 2004 it was officially licensed under the GNU GPL.
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