Continuation of a tutorial for non-geek Linux users, this time explaining what a "Distro" is and why it is important that you know about the Distro concept.
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Listen Review - Alternative Music Player for GNOME
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There is a huge number of audio players for GNOME which thrive to offer as many features as possible, with Banshee, Exaile or Rhythmbox currently being the most popular for this matter. Since features like easy access to lyrics, Wikipedia information or collection management are a must-have for a complex audio player, it looks like Listen makes no exception regarding those either.
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'Tis the Season: The Perl Advent Calendar
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On a seasonal Perl note, the Perl Advent Calendar has been going since 2000, and it provides a Useful Perl Module for every day between the 1st and the 24th of December. Less chocolatey than your average advent calendar, but possibly more useful.
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The most successful open source project ever
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At one point in the lesson I brought up open source, and he nearly turned red saying, “Nothing is free.” That statement got me to thinking about free, open source, and open source projects. He is right - nothing is free.
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digiKam 1.0.0 out !
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digiKam team have announced availability of digiKam 1.0.0. The last stable release was 0.10.0 in 2009-03-18; 8 months ago. This version brings a long list of new features and bugs-fixes: 30 features have been added and 485 bugs have been closed since last version.
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Go faster with Mandriva InstantOn
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Mandriva is proud to announce it’s brand new environment for mobile devices: Mandriva InstantOn.
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Openoffice3.2 RC1 is Released!
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Announced today the release of Openoffice3.2 RC1, the new release comes with new features and improvements. Note that the final release of Openoffice 3.2 is planned for XX January 2010.
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Open Source Downloads: the Monster List
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As demonstrated by the nearly 500 open source downloads on this list, open source software has benefited from an explosion of creativity in the last several years. Indeed, the first decade of the 21st century could be called "the Decade of Open Source."
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The Creators Of VLC Are Going To Release A Video Editor
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I don't normally get excited for a new release of a video editor on Linux. There are already many available and most of them don't work so well.
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Is Firefox 3.5 the most popular browser?
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After years of playing second fiddle to Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, Mozilla Firefox is now on top - kinda/sorta.
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Tilting at Windows
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Twenty minutes into our interview, at the Downtown Crossing headquarters of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), Richard Stallman learns that I own an iPhone. "That's a shame," he says...
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Why the EU's "browser ballot" is a bad idea
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While I believe that browser diversification is a good thing, I feel that approached used here is a flawed one, and will make Windows user more vulnerable to malware.
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Mozilla Does Not Endorse Microsoft’s Search, Media Distortions to Blame
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Asa Dotzler surprised by media reaction to comments of his which were misinterpreted and also attributed to his employer rather than himself
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“DRM is Probably 70% of the Complication in Supporting Open Source”
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RadeonHD driver suffers from Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) which Microsoft and the copyright cartel push into GPUs
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MS Still Corrupts the Meaning of “Open” in Order to Enter Government Contracts
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The fat cats from Redmond take taxpayers' money, pay almost no tax, and also use their political power to make the system more discriminatory
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Read contents from Free Software Magazine
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.
