Groklaw defends IBM and OIN very stubbornly (as well other initiatives that help legitimise software patents rather than immediately eradicate them), but Florian Müller from Germany disagrees with this approach
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More Free and Open Source Video Editors for Linux
Free and Open Source Video Editors for Linux: I've shared with you a list of free and open source video editing software before, and noticed that there are other excellent video editors for Linux that I failed to mention. So today, I would like to feature some more video editing software...
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Skobbler brings open source maps to UK iPhones
The navigation application for iPhone 3G and 3GS uses data from the Open Street Map Project to display maps on a user's device, supports turn-by-turn driving directions and is now available in the UK and Ireland
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Icewind Dale with Crossover Games
This video is a overview of Character creation in Icewind Dale using CodeWeavers CrossOver Games in Linux Mint 9, the game also plays extremely well in other Linux distributions and Mac OS X with CXGames 9.0
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Parted Magic partitioning tool updated
The 4.11 update to the open source Parted Magic multi-platform partitioning tool is based on the 2.6.32.15 Linux kernel and Parted 2.3
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RIP Linux 9.8 Screenshots
RIP Linux is a Slackware-based Linux rescue distribution that can be installed onto a CD, USB and even a 1.44 MB floppy. You can use this distro for various types of maintenance and troubleshooting or it also can be used for everyday desktop activities such as web surfing, email, and playing music.
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Five Simple Photo Fixes with digiKam
digiKam is an immensely powerful photo application, so learning all its features requires time and effort. But this capable photo management application also offers a few easy to use features which you can use to instantly improve your shots.
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Creating User Passwords
Creating good user passwords is your first line of security for a Linux Server. This important task has several principles that you need to follow to create passwords. This article will demonstrate the five rules for creating good passwords.
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Fragmentation: The FUD That Never Dies
Why the "fragmentation" slur against Free software no longer applies without the messenger being extremely hypocritical
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GNOME Desktop Comes to One Laptop Per Child
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) announced the inclusion of the GNOME desktop environment in its XO-1.5 line of computers. The inclusion of GNOME allows for students to quickly move from a learning environment to a productivity environment quickly and easily.
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Khronos Group releases OpenCL 1.1
Eighteen months after releasing a first version of the standard for programming heterogeneous parallel computers, the industry consortium has presented an updated version of OpenCL
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Chrome OS: Why so much confusion?
It just seems that through all this hype of Google’s much anticipated release of its Chrome OS, many look to it as Google’s replacement to all competing Operating System when the reality shows that this will not be the case. First of all, let us look at the audience this new OS is catering to: someone who pretty much uses the web for everything (i.e.
Read more »Apple Redefines Freedom, Lies About Its Products, Blocks Competitors, and Helps Microsoft
Apple's misbehaviour not only attracts an antitrust probe but it also shows whose interests Apple is serving (other than its own)
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Binary Portability in Linux
An interesting topic for a change: is Linux binary portable? That is, can we take a binary file and be sure it’ll run in any other Linux system? What happens if we broaden that to any POSIX system, will it blend? Eh, I mean, will it run?
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Ubuntu 10.04 review
After five years of faithful service, Brown is out – and that goes for Ubuntu too. That earthen, muddy hue that was supposed to remind us of our shared humanity and the real meaning of 'ubuntu' has been consigned to Linux history.
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