Amarok is a great music player for linux. In the current release of Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic also the current stable version of Amarok was introduced into the repositories. However Amarok is under heavy development and updates won't be included in the official repos. If you want to be up-to-date and have the latest Amarok version available, you'll need to compile it yourself.
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TV Mythos Renewed: MythTV 0.22 with Many Improvements
The MythTV hard disk recorder software is available in a new version that is based on Qt4 and supports new hardware and the VDPAU decoder.
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Canonical's Jono Bacon on the agony, ecstacy of Ubuntu Karmic
Jono Bacon goes on at length at his blog on the contrast between the euphoria over the release of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) and the reports of problems by users. Read the 10 or so entries below this one and you can see the problems I've had. It's time to put this in perspective. I've had plenty of problems with all manner of Linux and other Unix-like operating systems over the past few years.
Read more »Take Your Web Server With You
How about a portable Web server? You probably have one sitting right there on your Linux laptop, just ready to be used. If not, it is a simple matter of installing Apache and doing a little configuring.
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Set up a Gnumed backend server
In this article you will learn how to install everything you need to get your Gnumed front end connected to a locally hosted Gnumed backend server. I will be illustrating this on Ubuntu 9.10 with the end result being a local-only installation.
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Microsoft Patents Sudo?!!
Lordy, lordy, lordy. They have no shame. It appears that Microsoft has just patented sudo, a personalized version of it. Here it is, patent number 7617530. Thanks, USPTO, for giving Microsoft, which is already a monopoly, a monopoly on something that's been in use since 1980 and wasn't invented by Microsoft.
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Media PC on Linux
As an experiment I decided to build Media PC based on Linux. First of all I was wondering, how much did the Linux distributions evolve in the past few years.
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Linux lies at the heart of another Silicon Valley takeover
Linux lies at the heart of yet another big takeover deal in silicon valley.
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Microsoft and Unicode – Unicode is No Longer Open Standard?
Microsoft accused of harming Unicode, causing problems for the Indian population
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Winter Olympics Incompatible with GNU/Linux, Thanks to Microsoft
The Winter Olympics too will be delivered in Microsoft's proprietary XAML that it will stream via GNU/Linux servers
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Free and Open Source Screencasting Software Applications for Linux
A screencast (also known as video screen capture) is a digital recording of computer screen output that usually contains audio narrations. So basically, an application that records a user's screen activities and then saved them in video format is called screencasting software.
Read more »The Karmic Koala - Not Ubuntu's Vista
Ubuntu Linux, without a doubt is the most popular Linux desktop OS out there. It has come a long way since Warthy Wathog some 5 years ago. The crowning release of the distro was on the 29 of October when Karmic Koala was unleashed into the wild.
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IBM and Open Forum Europe Address European Interoperability Framework (EIF) Fiasco
Version 2 of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) addressed by Open Forum Europe and IBM's Bob Sutor, along with a European colleague
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At What Stage Can Novell be Called “Microsoft Subsidiary”?
Novell's latest moves clearly show a technical convergence with Microsoft, so why treat these companies separately?
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Testing Out Linux File-Systems On A USB Flash Drive
In past articles we have delivered plenty of file-system benchmarks from testing out EXT4 to Btrfs to NILFS2. One area though where we have not published any file-system benchmarks is for USB flash drives.
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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.

