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Illegal Codecs Put Me Off Linux

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com

There’s one aspect of Ubuntu, and Linux in general for that matter, that’s putting me off. This is the fact that to play a DVD or use WMA/WMV files I have to install codecs that are technically illegal to use.

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GNOME Online Desktop: Achieving what was done over a decade ago?

http://pinderkent.blogsavy.com

Those who follow GNOME have probably read about the GNOME Online Desktop. After reading about this concept, I find myself very confused at what it is they’re actually trying to accomplish. Why do I need to imagine that sort of an operating system? I’ve had that for years now.

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AA dumps Open Office, buys Microsoft for ‘compatibility’

http://computerworld.co.nz

Microsoft Office is not cheaper, but it is almost impossible to work out the actual cost of open-source, says CIO

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Do we still need LUGs?

http://www.linux.com

"In the world of Linux, many things have changed in the last decade. The operating system itself has grown up, and is no longer an "upstart." But one mainstay of the Linux community, the Linux user group (LUG), appears to be on the decline in some areas. Attendance is down, LUG presidents say, and some groups have stopped meeting. Does this mean we don't need LUGs anymore?"

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Linux Expert: Microsoft Is Throwing Money Away

http://rcpmag.com

"Redmond would have to "sue its customers" to pursue its contention that Linux infringes on Microsoft's patents -- an unlikely scenario."

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Who really owns your open source code?

http://www.builderau.com.au

"In the wake of Apple's purchase of CUPS, there is a simple lesson to take away -- if you are a developer committed to open source and you wish for your contributions to always remain open, do not reassign copyright to an external party."

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Gnash switched to GPLv3

http://www.gnashdev.org

Gnash has now switched to the GPLv3 license, see http://gplv3.fsf.org for more info.

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Novell Launches Linux Champions Club in Asia Pacific

http://www.smbedge.com

Novell announced today the launch of the Asia Pacific chapter of the Novell Linux Champions Club, following the success of the Champions Club in Europe. The objective of the Club is to build a community of Linux proponents among Novell’s strategic partners and their partners, eventually creating a Linux-friendly ecosystem in Asia Pacific.

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Linux... Up Against the Wall

http://blog.linuxtoday.com

The small-town bar was filled with the light of the afternoon sun pouring in from the front windows. There were the usual furnishings: the bar itself, various high tables with similarly heightened chairs, a jukebox... and on one wall, a flat monitor screen, encased in metal and displaying advertisements for local arts and music events.

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Removing KDE icons in gnome / remove gnome icons in KDE

http://ubuntu-tutorials.com

This tutorial is for those people that like to run gnome and KDE side by side. This will allow you to only show the native apps in the menus within each desktop environment instead of showing everything.

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Ubuntu Studio Screenshots Tour

http://www.debianadmin.com

Ubuntu Studio is a multimedia editing/creation flavour of Ubuntu. It’s built for the GNU/Linux audio, video, and graphic enthusiast or professional.Ubuntu Studio is an unofficial derivative of the Ubuntu open source operating system, based on Ubuntu, which is explicitly geared to general multimedia production.

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Jathias Wager Free Science Fiction Movie - Open Source Collaborative Filmmaking

http://www.solomonrothman.com

Jathia’s Wager is an open source collaborative filmmaking project where the community works together to write, produce and distribute a movie for free via the Internet.

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Open-source Democracy Player relaunches as Miro

http://arstechnica.com

The Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF) has renamed and relaunched its open-source television platform in hopes of offering an "open, mass medium of online television." What was once known as Democracy Player is now Miro, which functions in mostly the same ways as Democracy Player but with a number of improvements and updates.

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Firefox lances IE bug

http://www.theregister.co.uk

Mozilla has pushed out a new version of Firefox that fixes a number of security bugs, including a high-profile bug involving launching Firefox from Internet Explorer.

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The $99 Subscription-Based PC

http://www.smallbizresource.com

The Linux-based Zonbu PC uses less electricity, 4GB of flash memory, and has six USB ports. But if you want the low price tag, you'll have to pay a monthly fee for online storage. Is it worth it?

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Anybody up to writing good directory software?

Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David Jonathan

From 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 Russel

About 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.

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