"...Big Buck Bunny is a free short movie created by the Peach open movie project.The animated movie is freely licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which means, according to their 'about' page: 'you can freely reuse and distribute this content, also commercially, for as long you provide a proper attribution.' Big Buck Bunny was made primarily with the awesome free Blender 3D
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10 Audio Players for Linux
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Review of the 10 most used audio players: Amarok, Rhythmbox, Audacious, Banshee, Exaile, Beep Media Player, JuK, Quod Libet, Listen, Songbird.
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GNU gv 3.6.4 released
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GNU gv 3.6.4, the GNU PostScript and PDF viewer, released today...
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Welcome KDE apps back onto your GNOME desktop
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An interesting trend Ive noticed over the years is the thought process of how users install applications. Most of the time, a KDE user installing an application won't care what the application uses or what desktop it is designed for. They just simply install the application, use it, and get on with life.
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20 Essential KDE Applications - Review
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Review on 20 of the most used and loved KDE applications. Included are Amarok, K3b, KTorrent, Akregator, Kopete and all the others.
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10 Reasons to Love Debian
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This is not a rant about Debian vs. Ubuntu. I used both, loved both, and I'm currently using Debian Lenny. It's not about Debian versus any other distribution either: in fact, I only tried a few other distros, and most of them were Debian-based. Here are the top 10 reasons for which I enjoy using Debian:
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Burn Your CDs and DVDs! K3b Review
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K3b is the KDE CD/DVD burner, capable of burning data CDs/DVDs, as well as CD/dvd ISO images, create audio CDs, rip audio CDs and video DVDs. Statistics show it is the favourite burning application of Linux users.
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Wiping your disk drive clean
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Everybody who owns a computer will someday need to dispose of a disk drive. Before you do, it is a good idea to cleanse the drive, so no one can read your sensitive information. Deleting files and reformatting is not sufficient; determined effort can still reveal data from a drive even after it appears to be gone.
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gNewSense distro frees Ubuntu
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"Free software lovers can rejoice at this month's release of gNewSense 2.0 (pronounced "guh-new-sense"), the latest version of the popular distribution based on Ubuntu Hardy Heron. Code-named DeltaH, this operating system includes only software where users have the right to run, study, adapt, redistribute, and improve all of the software and code.
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"...Here are 6 general emacs tips i felt that's the most important in emacs productivity, among all other emacs tips and tricks of my decade-long experience. If you use emacs only occasionally, these tips may not be very meaningful because they are general and does not solve any specific problems.
Read more »Wine 1.0-rc3 Released
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This is release 1.0-rc3 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.
What's new in this release (see below for details):
- Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.
Review: Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring
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Last month Mandriva announced its latest Spring edition. Despite a few minor glitches, after several weeks of testing the two Mandriva flavors, I have finally come across a distro that gives you the best of the GNU/Linux and proprietary worlds in terms of ease of use, range of software, and stability on hardware that ranges from old Celerons to newer multi-core machines.
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Linux.com Review: Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring
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Linux.com reviews Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring: "Despite a few minor glitches, after several weeks of testing the two Mandriva flavors, I have finally come across a distro that gives you the best of the GNU/Linux and proprietary worlds in terms of ease of use, range of software, and stability on hardware that ranges from old Celerons to newer multi-core machines."
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Qt 4.3.5: Two steps back and one step forward
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Earlier this month, we released the single, largest release of Qt since the 4.0.0 release two years ago. Qt 4.4.0 is the result of 10 months of hard work by the Trolls, including numerous distractions.
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Ubuntu/Xubuntu 8.04 Macbook Pro Sound and Keyboard Fixes
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After getting the wireless card (Wi-Fi) working in Xubuntu Hardy Heron on my Macbook Pro (Penryn), I went on by fixing the keyboard (special keys) and the sound.The keyboard fix is actually very simple. I haven't seen a detailed tutorial on fixing the special keys for the MBP (Penryn) anywhere, so I'm writing this as a guide to others that might also need help.
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