A list of the best 8 Ubuntu video editors (install instructions for Ubuntu, they work on any linux distro)
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ClipGrab - Download videos from online video sharing websites
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ClipGrab is a free GUI Video downloader from the famous online video sharing websites like youtube, veoh, Dailymotion, MyVideo and many other. ClipGrab is very simple (basically just one window to work on). Clipgrab downloads the file and saves it by default to FLV (Flash Video) however can convert the downloaded video on the fly to Windows Video (WMV), MPEG4, MP3 (Audio), OGG Vorbis (Audio).
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How To Install Openbravo ERP On Ubuntu 8.10
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This document describes how to set up Openbravo ERP (enterprise management system) on Ubuntu 8.10. Openbravo is an open source ERP solution designed specifically for the SME (small to midsize firm).
Read more »Freedom
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"So I am now an official donor to the Free Software Foundation and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. These are two organizations that I feel strongly about, and that I just had to become a member of and support their causes [...] I just wanted to share my feelings on that."
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Open source trading platform could be a win for Wall Street
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Linux and open source software are a key component in the underlying infrastructure of the finance industry, but the higher layers of the stack are still dominated by a multitude of proprietary, in-house solutions. A software startup called Marketcetera aims to change that with a new, open source platform for building automated trading systems.
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Open Source Alternatives to iTunes: Your Favorite?
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To be sure, the alternatives don’t have Apple's muscle with the media industry. This translates into a lack of a movie/TV download service to be seriously competitive with the likes of what iTunes can provide. Despite this drawback, there are still some great open source alternatives to iTunes for those who are more interested in software freedom than software convenience.
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Disable a startup of service in Ubuntu
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If for whatever reason you stop using a certain service in your Ubuntu install and would like to disable automatic restarting for it upon system reboot, all it takes to do it is just one command line.
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Bringing Up Open Source, Part 1: Enterprise Edition
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Considering the economic climate, just about any nascent business targeting enterprises as customers must at this time make price a high priority. Using open source instead of proprietary technology can help keep costs down. Here are three startups making headway in the enterprise Linux space.
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Tribler: BitTorrent and Beyond
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P2P (peer-to-peer) is the nature of the Net. You can fight that, or you can embrace it. Here in the US, the mainstream entertainment business has mostly been fighting it. Hollywood and its phone and cable company allies have long regarded P2P, and BitTorrent in particular, as a copyright piracy system and a bandwidth hog.
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Collection of Tips and Tricks for XChat Part 1
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XChat is a GTK client for IRC, available on both Linux and Windows. It is one of the most popular and feature-rich IRC clients on the Linux platform, together with Konversation and KVirc. Of course, there are very good clients like Irssi too, but I'm talking only about graphical clients here.
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IBM opens access to patents
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IBM announced today that it will increase the number of technical inventions it makes freely available to others by 50 per cent, and seek less patent protection for its inventions, in an effort to stimulate worldwide innovation and economic growth.
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What do I do as Executive Director of GNOME?
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I get asked a lot what I do, exactly, as executive director of the GNOME Foundation.
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In Over My Head: Blinux
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For the past couple of years, I’ve been doing what little I could to assist a friend of mine going blind from Macular Degeneration... The experience has caused me to explore Linux for the Blind, or “Blinux.”
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Why Linux will crush Windows 7
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I've been toying with Windows 7 for a few days now. I'm not ready yet to talk about it in detail yet, but I can say that it's better than Vista SP1. Of course, saying 7 is better than Vista isn't saying much. However, I recently read a Network World column, which claims that Windows 7 will crush Linux. Yeah, and the Detroit Lions are going to win the Super Bowl this year.
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Suggested Tips for Taming the Extreme Side of the Linux Community
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Sometimes, I feel that Linux is so very close to making it on the desktop. Sometimes that I feel that there are only few barriers to populating the world with a massive amount of cheap, secure computers running Linux and other open source software. Though, the few barriers that are left are considerably challenging.
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