The program MOC was reviewed in recent article called MOC — Console Audio Player for Linux. It was written by Roman Tworkowski. Even though we live in the times of cute graphical interfaces e.g. Compiz, KDE, etc. I consider the MOC player to be a better solution for some users (including myself) than the very popular applications Xmms or Amarok, and the other visually appealing players.
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MOC Audio Player — advanced tricks
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Linux Distro Of The Week: 64 Studio
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Consider 64 Studio, which packs a whole slew of free and open source multimedia (music and video) content-creation applications such as Ardour, Hydrogen, and JAMin into a 64-bit Debian-derived Linux distribution. The 64-bitness is pretty deliberate: With applications like audio and video creation, having unimpeded access to as much memory as you can is always a good idea.
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Grandpa Gets a Dell with Ubuntu Linux Preinstalled
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Groklaw member Tyche got a Dell Inspiron 530N with Ubuntu Linux and when I saw him post that he'd ordered it, I asked if he'd please write up a quick review after it arrived. He has done so, and as you will see, he found getting online so easy he had nothing at all to do to make it happen. Just poof.
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Weekly tip: how to get the best out of the history command in GNU/Linux
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Anybody who has used the command line extensively to navigate, understand and configure GNU/Linux will know that in the course of a few months’ work it is possible to build up an extensive history of used commands. This necessitates some pro-active management to get the best out of it. Here are some tips to make the most of the history command.
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Hey charger! OLPC gets power boost from Aussie coder
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A 21-year-old Australian is playing a key part in developing the a charger unit for the XO-1 -- the laptop which is the center of One Laptop Per Child project.
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BBC looks to court online viewers with media player
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The BBC has released a public beta of its own software application for watching video online, hoping to engage younger people who are consuming more of their content over the Internet.
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OpenOffice.org in Education: A Roundup (Updated)
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I can’t tell you how many discussions, presentations and other encounters I have had lately where people have been so kind as to share their objections and misgivings about OpenOffice vs Microsoft Office, and partly I wanted to make this roundup into a set of references that could easily and quickly be investigated by those who are OO-curious and want to go and see who is doing what and how with
Read more »Customize your laptop keyboard with X and KDE
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I am a Linux user, and I recently got an eMachines laptop. Since I'm Uruguayan, my mother tongue is Spanish, and that presented a problem: laptops usually have an American-style keyboard, and Spanish (as well as Portuguese, French, German, and other languages) requires some special keys that aren't on American keyboards.
Read more »Fedora stats offer insight into Linux usage
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The Fedora Project offered a peek under its kimono recently with details about Fedora 7 adoption and other statistics. Fedora 7 has snagged more than 300,000 users since its release at the end of May. While that sounds pretty good, Fedora Core 6 managed to attract more than 400,000 in roughly the same amount of time after its release.
Read more »How To Manage An iPod From A Linux Desktop With Amarok
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This article shows how you can use an iPod on a Linux desktop with Amarok. It covers how you can upload MP3 files from your desktop to your iPod, download MP3 files from your iPod to your desktop, and how you can delete files on the iPod. Normally, Apple's iTunes software is needed to manage an iPod, but iTunes is not available for Linux.
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How To Set Default Workspace, Size and Window Effects in Gnome
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Among the many cool things that I’ve learned this week at Ubuntu Live there is one that I’m definitely going to keep using!
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Meet the cheapest laptop in the world
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From credit card debt and school loans to rising gas prices and adjustable mortgages, there are plenty of reasons why consumers in the developed world can't afford a laptop. Enter the Medison Celebrity laptop. It's a $150 Fedora Linux-based laptop from Swedish company Medison that's available through the Columbus, Ohio-based online reseller 2Checkout.com.
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Howto: Verify Downloaded Linux / BSD DVD or CD ISO images for integrity
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You need to verify that that downloaded Linux DVD or ISO images are intact before you burn and use them. This is security feature. But how do you verify ISO images?
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Researcher publishes attack code for Mozilla flaw
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Mozilla is working on patching its Firefox browser after a hacker posted details of a flaw that could let criminals run unauthorized software on a victim's machine.
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