The Debian Project has released the sixth maintenance update to Debian 5.0. The updated version includes a number of updates and addresses several bugs and security issues found in the 5.0.5 release from the end of June
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Start of feature cull for Firefox 4
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Mozilla has confirmed that it has started culling features for version 4.0 of its open source Firefox web browser; the Account Manager feature - announced in April of this year - has now been dropped from the major browser update
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Nightingale - Much Anticipated Songbird Fork Which is Soon Going to Have its First Release
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Songbird Music Player was among the most beloved Open Source project and it still is for many, except for Linux users. Songbird is still open source, but developers behind Songbird have decided to discontinue support for Linux and the concentrate on Mac and Windows versions of Songbird.
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A Quick Look at Shutter 0.86.4 - Powerful Desktop Screenshot Application
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Shutter is probably the most powerful screenshot application for Linux, and the main reason for this is that it comes with tons of configuration options for the final process of taking a simple screenshot. And why not, considering there are people out there who need to take a screenshot of a single window or a desktop region instead of fullscreen only, like the GNOME default screenshot program.
Read more »Blender Foundation's Sintel Open Movie Will Have Its Official Premiere in Another 14 Days
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Sintel is an independently produced short film, initiated by the Blender Foundation as a means to further improve and validate the free/open source 3D creation suite Blender. Between, if you haven't heard about it yet, you probably haven't heard about 3 previous open source movie projects by Blender namely Yo Frankie, Elephants Dream and Big Buck Bunny.
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Open source tools for audio editing (jamin,Ardour and rosengarden)
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Often when I suggest Linux as an alternative I hear, yes i like it unfortunate that there is nothing as software for processing digital audio, so I must stay with Windows.
Read more »Taking Screenshots in Ubuntu using terminal only
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There is no need of a graphical utility to take the screen shot of your desktop, no need to wonder how.. Lets try it with your terminal. Terminal is a powertool and solution to all the problems in linux
The advantage of using commandline tool is that if you need to take a screenshot in an environment, where you cannot run a graphical screenshot utility prefer this method.
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TORCS Review - The Open Racing Car Simulator
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One of the beautiful features that really impressed me is the possibility to increase or decrease how the time passes. For example, pressing Shift++ (Shift and +) will increase the time, and thus making the speed look like it has doubled or tripled. To go back to normal time, just press the - (minus) key. The feeling is amazing!
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Kongoni Linux 1.12.3 (Cicero) Released
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Kongoni is a desktop oriented operating system with a strong belief in being truly free software. This is the final and stable release of Kongoni 1.12.3 (Cicero). With this release most issues and problems should be solved, also most packages where cleaned-up, updated to the latest version.
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Awesome Music Player That Rocks: Jajuk
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Jajuk is a free, cross-platform music player available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X, written in Java. I never used Jajuk before, so I tested it for the first time today, an I'm really impressed. Let me explain.
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Mint 9: Minty fresh Linux
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Linux distributions come through my office in a constant flood. Most of them stick around long enough for a quick try-out on one of my test systems or on a VirtualBox virtual machine. A few find permanent homes.
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No 64-bit (x64) Firefox 4.0
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If you’re holding your breath while waiting for the 64-bit (x64) flavor of Firefox 4.0, feel free to exhale now.
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Synaptic Is Going Bye Bye Soon
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Paul Tagliamonte, an Ubuntu LoCoCouncil and BeginnersTeam Council member confirmed in a comment on Reddit that Synaptic will soon be removed from Ubuntu.
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Help Test the Next Generation of KDE's Kontact
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The KDE PIM team has made available a beta version of the next-generation groupware client suite Kontact. The new Kontact is built on the Akonadi framework, sharing infrastructure for syncing with online services across applications
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How To Master GIMP, For Graphics, Quickly And Easily
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If you're in any way interested in graphics, you're probably already familiar with GIMP, one of the very best of all open source applications and certainly one of the best graphics applications.
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