KDE Community Ships Third Translation and Service Release of the 4.3 Free Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and Translation Updates
Read more »Ditch Microsoft, Save £269m Says Hungarian Open Source Group
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Despite a struggling economy and public debt, the Hungarian government continues to spend millions on Microsoft licences when cheaper alternatives exist, say open source groups.
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Amarok project joins Software Freedom Conservancy
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The Amarok Team have announced that Amarok project has joined the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). The Software Freedom Conservancy is composed of various Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects and provides member projects with administrative and financial services.
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Blender Game Competition 2010
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Blender (everyones favorite GPL 3D modeling application) also has a build in game engine. And what would be nicer than having a nice competition for game creation?
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Installing Octave 3.2 with Image package on Arch Linux
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How to install Octave 3.2 and its Image processing package on Arch Linux. In short, Octave is easy (i.e. pacman -S octave), while Image package requires some additional steps. Also a few, simple Octave commands are shown for image creation and rotation that can be used to test if Image package was installed.
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StartSSL: a Certification Authority with a heart
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Linux Security had the chance to talk with Eddy Nigg, founder of StartSSL, an "alternative" CA, by any meaning.
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5 open source billing systems to watch
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Collecting money from customers should be the easy part of your business, but an billing system that underperforms can make life unnecessarily difficult for CIOs.
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Pink Army Cooperative Uses Open Source Principles to Treat Breast Cancer
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One of the greatest things about the open source philosophy is that its principles can be applied to projects that help mankind. Content management systems, media apps, and gaming software all have their place in the FOSS ecosystem, but when projects like the Pink Army Cooperative come along, it reminds people of just how powerful the open source doctrine really is.
Read more »Ubuntu 9.10 'Karmic Koala' is here: 5 things CIOs must know
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The latest Ubuntu releasehas some useful enhancements that should prove particularly interesting to CIOs and IT managers.
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The 2009 Linux Kernel Summit
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The 2009 Linux Kernel Summit was held in Tokyo, Japan on October 19 and 20. Jet-lagged developers from all over the world discussed a wide range of topics. LWN's Jonathan Corbet was there, and has written the following summaries.
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Geotagging Photos with digiKam
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Scribbles and Snaps: "Even if your camera doesn’t support geotagging, you can easily add geographical coordinates to your photos using digiKam."
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Howto install eee-control in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
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eee-control is an easy-to-use utility for controlling Eee PC hardware under Linux. It can toggle hardware (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) on and off, lets you configure all hardware hotkeys, enables aggressive powersaving, and more.
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Red Hat's Enterprise Virtualisation released
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Red Hat has announced the general availability of its Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation for Servers. The product is part of Red Hat's virtualisation portfolio based around KVM.
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Tune your Linux-based server for power efficiency
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This three-part series is your starting point for tuning your system for power efficiency. In Part 3, the author compares the performance of the five in-kernel governors in both tuned and untuned states to show you how to optimize a Linux-based System x server.
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Setting up a MySQL Cluster for your Linux desktop
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So, what is MySQL Cluster? It is a database solution which tries to solve high availability issues by using multiple synchronous masters (for the lack of a better phrase) in a shared-nothing environment. In order to solve a lot of the latency issues associated with multiple masters, it keeps all the indexed data in memory to enable fast processing of the data.
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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.
