Banshee 1.0 comes with many features, like a pretty good collection management, audio and video libraries, support for podcasts and many plugins, a notable one being the Last.fm integration and song submission.
Read more »What Makes Amarok the Most Popular Audio Player on Linux?
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I used this player for about three years and I love it more and more, with each new release. Statistics show around 60% of the Linux users prefer Amarok over any other audio player. 60%! That's huge. This article lists 7 reasons for which I think this is the most loved audio player. I preferred to leave out the more technical ones, and just concentrate on the highlights.
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Linux Cluster Supercomputer Performs Surgery on Dog
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In April, the Lonestar supercomputer, a Dell Linux Cluster with 5,840 processors at the Texas Advanced Computing Center in Austin, performed laser surgery on a dog in Houston without the intervention of a surgeon.
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Integrating the ACTA and Microsoft
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Further moves towards restricting digital freedom and banning (Goodness forbid!) of FOSS
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Vienna hobbles open-source migration
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In a setback for the City of Vienna's three-year-old open-source migration programme, city authorities decided on Wednesday to scrap most of the systems that have so far adopted the city's custom-built Linux distribution, instead approving an €8m migration to Windows Vista.
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IDE Skeleton
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"Ide-skel is a skeleton (or framework) of IDE for Emacs users. Like Eclipse, it can be used as is with some predefined plugins on board, but is designed to extend by Emacs Lisp programmers to suite their own needs. [...] http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/IdeSkel [...] The only currently known external plugin for ide-skel is SqlPlus (http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/SqlPlus)."
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MS (Mark Shuttleworth) Buys Codecs from MS (Microsoft)
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The mobile version of Ubuntu appears to be passing money to Microsoft, which has an effect on redistribution rights as well
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Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violation
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After outcry from various constituencies over the past couple of days, Microsoft has pulled from its CodePlex site its Sandcastle project for failure to comply with the terms and conditions required in order to be qualify as bona-fide open source.
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Version labeling is out of control
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Anybody who spends time trying new free software applications and distributions will soon notice that version numbering and labeling is next to meaningless. These days, versioning rarely gives an accurate idea of the state of development, except relative to other builds of the same project. It is simply a label that distinguishes one build from another.
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Networking Futures: The Movements against Corporate Globalization
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"...Those experiences form the basis of Networking Futures, an innovative ethnography of transnational activist networking within the movements against corporate globalization [...]He further explores how activists have used e-mail lists, Web pages, and free software to organize actions, share information, coordinate at a distance, and stage "electronic civil disobedience." Based on a powerful cul
Read more »Emacs Gnus: Filter Spam
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"(draft for an upcoming book called Wicked Cool Emacs)
Ah, spam, the bane of our Internet lives. There is no completely reliable way to automatically filter spam. Spam messages that slip through the filters and perfectly legitimate messages that get labelled spam are all part of the occupational hazards of using the Internet..."
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Is Linux a Lonely Word?
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Yesterday as I was sitting in a cafe having a drink, I caught up on my New York Times business section. In a review of the new class of Mini-Notebooks, I wasn’t surprised to see Linux mentioned. After all Linux is the dominant OS in these new class of computers, described by the Times as bigger than a smart phone but smaller than a laptop.
Read more »PCLinuxOS Magazine June 2008 Released
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PCLinuxOS Magazine, June 2008 (Issue 22) is available to download.
Some highlights include:
What is root?
Configuring a 5 Button Mouse
Burn an ISO Disk
Google Goodies
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Run a command under a different environment
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Today we have a simple tip of the shell. Are there applications or scripts that you use that require different environment variables, such as a different PATH or EDITOR? Then meet the env command. env allows you to run a program in a restricted environment with custom variables or so that no “dirty” variables are left around.
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Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software
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"So I have an announcement: I have written, and published, A Book [...] Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software ..." -- From the book description: "Drawing on ethnographic research that took him from an Internet c start-up company in Boston to media labs in Berlin to young entrepreneurs in Bangalore, Kelty describes the technologies and the moral vision that binds together hackers, ge
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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.
