The 4.0 release of the KDE software compilation marked a major milestone for the KDE community. While the underlying development platform has seen a modernization to better work with increased demand of applications, the community also saw a shift in its development methods.
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Attention all Gentoo stable users
Tomáš (scarabeus) and I decided it was time to do another round of stabilizations.
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Interview With Frictional Games – Amnesia
Frictional Games the developers of the horror Penumbra series recently revealed the title of their next project – Amnesia : The Dark Descent which I wrote about earlier. For this special event I interviewed the developers about their next title.
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Tiny Core Linux 2.6 arrives
Tiny Core lead developer Robert Shingledecker has announced the availability of version 2.6 of Tiny Core Linux. Tiny Core is a minimal Linux distribution that's only about 10 MB in size and is based on the 2.6 Linux kernel. The latest release includes several bug fixes, changes and updates.
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Virtual computers in a virtual world
The method I like the best for evaluating different operating systems, whether they are different Linux distributions, BSD, MacOS or the latest windows offering, is to use virtual machines.
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Video Transcript of Vandana Shiva on Insane Patents
Vandana Shiva talks about patenting of seeds; other examples of privatisation with patents and funding.
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FSFE and Others Denounce Latest Microsoft-inspired FUD Against GNU/Linux and Free Software
Siim Kallas' latest smear of Free software invites several factual responses; Jason Hiner’s new attack on GNU/Linux put in perspective
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F-Spot (Mono) Can Still be Removed from Next Ubuntu
Canonical at a crossroad after deciding to remove GIMP from the CD-ROM; potential replacements not finalised yet
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How to Print Large Posters in Ubuntu / Debian Linux
PosteRazor cuts a raster image into pieces which can afterwards be printed out and assembled to a poster. As input, the PosteRazor takes a raster image. The resulting poster is saved as a multipage PDF document. An easy to use, wizard like user interface guides through 5 steps.
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HandBrake 0.9.4 Released With a Whopping 1,000 Changes
Popular open source video transcoder project HandBrake saw a new release this week with a boatload of new features, changes, and improvements. Many of version 0.9.4's changes optimize the application for better picture quality and performance while others make using the tool to rip DVDs a much friendlier experience.
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Study: Intellectual Monopolies (Patents) Vastly Dominated by… the Monopolies
A not-so-overly-alarmist reminder of how monopolies are taking over society using self-serving laws and establishments, including the patent office
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Battery improvements in kde plasma 4.4
The battery applet in KDE Plasma 4.4 has gotten some nice improvements. First of all, I wasn’t really happy with the layout of its popup dialog. It looked messy and didn’t scale well with bigger fonts. During Tokamak3 in September, I started improving this.
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And Now for Something Completely Different – The N900 and its Killer Feature
I won't go into every detail and feature because those have been covered ad nauseum already, including the fact that it has by far the best web browser(s) and the best multi-tasking experience of any comparable device out there right now.
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Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.32 (Part 6): Infrastructure
Devtmpfs, aka 'devfs 2.0' to its detractors, should allow the Linux kernel to start faster and run without udev. Support has been added for ACPI 4.0 and there are two new make targets which generate kernel configurations attuned to the running system. Changes to the power management subsystem increase data throughput and allow better use of runtime power saving features on modern I/O devices.
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Manage your bibliographic database with Bibus
If you are a student, teacher, writer, or anyone who has a need for a bibligraphy then you need to do yourself a favor and make use of a bibliographic manager.
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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.


