MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of codecs and file formats, including MPEG 1/2/4,DivX 3/4/5, Windows Media 7/8/9, RealAudio/Video up to 9, Quicktime 5/6, and Vivo 1/2.
Read more »Install Mplayer and Multimedia Codecs (libdvdcss2,w32codecs,w64codecs) in Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)
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Has Microsoft lost its war on open source?
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Is Microsoft a friend or foe of open source? Going by the company's actions, Microsoft can't seem to decide whether to make love or war. But if it's war, Microsoft appears to lack the legal weaponry to defeat or even disturb its adversaries.
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Split APE and FLAC Files in Ubuntu and Add Tags by Cue File
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Did you ever downloaded a single APE or FLAC file consisting of multiple songs? If so, it's quite annoying to try and listen to only one song. But you can split the files into multiple songs exactly like in the cue file (each song's start and end time are saved in the cue file, so we'll know where to cut the big file).
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Ubuntu on XO
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Group test: project planners
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If you were suffering in silence because you thought you couldn't draw a Gantt chart or an RBS diagram on Linux, you were wrong. In this article we'll present five project managers that are aimed at non-geek desktop users.
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Running Linux Under Windows
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Microsoft Windows remains the dominant desktop operating system with approximately 90% of the client operating system market. If Microsoft's monopoly is ever going to be challenged by Linux, there has to be an easy way for Windows' users to be able to learn about this rival operating system.
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Playdeb gaming repo for Ubuntu
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This is a beta website for the Playdeb project. Playdeb is a gaming repository for Ubuntu - aimed to provide titles already available on getdeb.net in an easier to install and update format.
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Shuttleworth: Oracle's Sun buy validates open source
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Mark Shuttleworth founder of Ubuntu and his CTO Matt Zimmerman held a press conference this AM to pre-announce the launch of Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, which will become available this Thursday April 23rd. Aside from the product details on the upcoming release, Shuttleworth provided insight into what he sees the Oracle buy of Sun means to Ubuntu, and the wider open source ecosystem itself.
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What would the open source community do with $US9.1 billion?
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I couldn't help think that question this morning when the news came through from the US that Microsoft will increase its R&D spend by $US1 billion bringing its total to $US9.1 billion every year.
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Banshee as the default mediaplayer?
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Jo Shields posts about his intention to propose switching Rhythmbox for Banshee in Karmic. (I'm trying to convince him to apply to be a MOTU, or at least an Ubuntu member, so he can be on Planet Ubuntu.) He's not the first to suggest it, but he is in the right place to make the proposal for this release.
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Five Ideas To Get FOSS Into Governments
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Why is it so hard to get governments (especially local government) to use open source software? Here are some ideas discussed during my keynote today in Oslo at GoOpen 2009 for practical steps various people, from citizens to policy wonks to representatives, can do to help get open source in actual use and delivering on its promise (and I know it's not easy)...
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Open-source misperceptions live on
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The enterprises, vendors, developers, analysts, and journalists I speak with regularly are mostly pretty savvy about the basics of open source at this point. Even if they're not licensing geeks or otherwise expert in all the minutiae and subtle implications of open-source development, community, and usage, they generally have the important basics down.
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I eat FUD like you for breakfast
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After reading Sandy Armstrong’s latest post on the status of Tomboy, I became curious about GNote, and went to read about it on Hub’s blog. Personally I agree with Sandy, GNote is a project that ultimately hurts GNOME and the free desktop more than it helps
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What does the Free Software Movement have to do with Anarchism?
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«...The Free Software movement is an example of an emergent movement with anarchist characteristics.
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The Age of Reunion: Beyond Exploitation to an Economy of Solidarity
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"...We'll conclude the program with another presentation from the 4 annual oekonux conference, Free Software and Beyond The World of Peer Production held in Manchester, England last month that brought together an international group of people from the free software movement that are exploring the application of peer to peer networks and free collaboration beyond software to society as a whole."
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