This article shows how you can use an iPod on a Linux desktop with Amarok. It covers how you can upload MP3 files from your desktop to your iPod, download MP3 files from your iPod to your desktop, and how you can delete files on the iPod. Normally, Apple's iTunes software is needed to manage an iPod, but iTunes is not available for Linux.
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Tux Goes to Elementary School
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Kiddix Computing has come up with a Linux-based operating system designed especially for children aged 5-10. All of the icons for applications are situated around the edge of the desktop. There's e-mail, a browser, an office suite, a paint program and some games (both educational and just plain fun). All are built with open-source code, and everything has a user interface designed for kids.
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The last Linux adoption barrier is marketing
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"There are many barriers for adoption to Linux... These barriers are perception as opposed to the fact in many instances but there is one area in which Linux lacks creativity, energy, and innovation. This area, if addressed at all, is done in pale imitation of others and poorly executed. That area? Marketing."
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Red Hat says IP deal not necessary for Windows interop
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"Red Hat's chief technology officer has maintained that an intellectual property agreement with Microsoft is not necessary for the company to enable interoperability between Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux."
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Open source licensing: the right (or wrong) tool for the job
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The big news for today is definitely open source licensing, with SugarCRM going GPLv3, the OSI approving SocialText’s Common Public Attribution License, BMC selecting the BSD license for its open source projects, and the newly re-named xTuple introducing yet another license.
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The inadvertent Linux user
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While Linux is still taking off relatively slowly in the desktop world, the same is not true in the mobile space where many are predicting that we will be presented with a mobile Linux Odyssey in 2012.
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How To Set Default Workspace, Size and Window Effects in Gnome
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Among the many cool things that I’ve learned this week at Ubuntu Live there is one that I’m definitely going to keep using!
Read more »Best FUD Fighter: And the winner is... me!
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The five winners of this year's Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards were announced last night at OSCON, and I am one of the winners, as "Best FUD Fighter". I love that. Best FUD Fighter.
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Howto: Verify Downloaded Linux / BSD DVD or CD ISO images for integrity
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You need to verify that that downloaded Linux DVD or ISO images are intact before you burn and use them. This is security feature. But how do you verify ISO images?
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Fuzz testing with zzuf
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Fuzz testing, which uses random input to test software for bugs, has been the biggest thing to happen in IT security in quite awhile. Now you can quickly and easily direct your own fuzz testing ops, thanks to a cool little program called zzuf.
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How Canonical Stays on the Light Side
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The story thus far for Canonical: Young successful South African entrepreneur wants to give back to the technology that helped make him successful in the first place.
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Meet the cheapest laptop in the world
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From credit card debt and school loans to rising gas prices and adjustable mortgages, there are plenty of reasons why consumers in the developed world can't afford a laptop. Enter the Medison Celebrity laptop. It's a $150 Fedora Linux-based laptop from Swedish company Medison that's available through the Columbus, Ohio-based online reseller 2Checkout.com.
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Mozilla Firefox Still At Risk
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Sometimes you get the flaw fixed right the first time and sometimes you don't. For Mozilla, apparently they have not properly fixed at least two types of flaws which they previously claimed to have fixed.
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Fork a kernel, kill an "OS" and revolutionize the desktop
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The news of Con Kolivas, a Linux kernel developer, quitting that role, along with an interview in which he explains why, could and should make loud noises around the Free Software community which is often touting GNU/Linux as the best operating system one could use, and not just because of freedom you have with it.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanFrom the very start, directories have served a very useful purpose on the Internet. (One I find useful for example is Free Web Directory). News sites can also be considered directories: they index and categorize news stories! What about categorizing software? In the open source world you get Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat; there are still, believe it or not, shareware and freeware directories like FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and Freeware Downloads (although you need to be careful, as they are not like their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselAbout Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software?, it's clear that the topic of software directories is very hot. Most of what you find on Google, however, are not pointing to free and open soruce software -- or worse, they mix the two. Examples of such sites are Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download, which simply don't focus on "free as in freedom", and still can be used as good free software directories.
