So I often hear the phrase: “Sound on Linux is Confusing”. While I don’t totally disagree with this statement, as with everything on Linux the sound system is pretty logical and if you follow through the steps you can demystify things pretty quickly. So this article will explain how things work on Mandriva and should ensure users are more comfortable with “how things work”.
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Replacing Firefox
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I am a heavy web user. Everything from webmail to banking, if I can do it on-line I will. For years I have used Firefox. Sadly on smaller platforms, its starting to appear in need of a regular appearance at the gym.
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Installing "Sugar on a stick" (Strawberry Release) On A USB Stick
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Sugar is the desktop environment that is used for the "One Laptop per Child" (OLPC) netbooks. It can also be installed on normal computers and even run off of a USB stick (which should have at least 1GB of size). This guide shows how you can install Sugar (the Strawberry release which is based on Fedora 11) on a USB stick.
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FOSS and Education: iTalc and Moodle
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If you’re running a training center, whether it concerns distance education or not, you need tools to help you manage your classes and facilitate discussions.
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8 of the Best Free Linux Compilers
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A compiler is software that transforms source code written in a computer language (the source language) into another computer language (the target language, often having a binary form known as object code).
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The billion dollar MS response - No Windows 7 E for Europe
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It is either a clever bit of strategy or a shambolic u-turn depending upon your view of the company, but Microsoft has now formally abandoned plans to sell the controversial Windows 7 E edition in Europe.
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CentOS back from brink of death
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CentOS is alive. Two days after a core group of developers posted an open letter to primary admin Lance Davis, threatening to fork the open source OS if he didn't discuss his apparent disappearance from the project, Davis has answered their call - and he seems to have quelled their complaints.
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A Jesuit's Guide to Open Standards
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Microsoft is at it again: trying to redefine what "open" means. This time they want open standards to be "balanced" - for them to include patent-encumbered technologies. Which just happens to be incompatible with free software licensed under the GNU GPL.
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Introducing Winesharer - so pre-alpha it doesn't even work
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Winesharer is my attempt to eliminate some of the file management problems inherent with Wine and the *nix filesystem hierarcy.
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An Explanation of the Economic of Open Source
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When I was in University, not long after discovering a thing called "Linux" and all the wonderful free software that came with it, I fell in love with Open Source. The ethics of openness and meritocracy really appealed to me.
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Linux? There Are Simply Too Many Versions!
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I have once again run across a “too many versions!” comment on another site. In this one a person going by the moniker “matt_chsi” states there are too many versions of Linux and that is why adoption of Linux is so poor.
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CentOS: Getting Their S#!t Together is a Top Priority
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So everything is being resolved, CentOS is getting its act together, and we can all go about our business. Nothing to see here, move along. Move along. Right? Wrong.
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What Happens to SCO Next? -- Some Possibilities
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A lot of you have been asking about what happens if SCO is sent into Chapter 7. I did some research for you and I'll show you what I found. But there are other possibilities on the table now, and I'll show you a bit about all of them. We'll try to find an answer to our question, what could happen to SCO now?
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Sound on Linux Anti-FUD: Calm, Certainty and Confidence
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Over the years I’ve listened to several opinions expressing doubt over the Linux sound stack. There are lots of ill informed comments out there concerning various things sound related, both positive and negative, but more often than not commentators miss out very important aspects of a modern, multi-user, desktop sound stack.
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New Linux Software Portal
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FlameDesktop is a place where everybody could browse in a really inovative and user-friendly way for good Linux software. FlameDesktop aims to be a good entrance door to the Linux world.
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