A couple weeks ago, Google, along with a number of other groups, famously advanced the WebM codec as a supported video format for HTML5-enabled browsers, in an attempt to finally put forward a standard that all parties involved can agree on. How far has the Linux community come since then in implementing support for the new codec? Here's a look.
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Who’s Supporting WebM on Linux?
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Debian Squeeze Pre-review
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Every two years or so, Debian puts out a new "stable" release. This is my favorite distribution because of the minimal number of bugs and the huge software repositories and the powerful package manager.
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A Quick Look at KDE SC 4.5 Beta 1
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The latest in the 4.x series of the KDE Software Compilation is due to be released in early August 2010. With the first beta of this release recently unleashed, I thought I'd download the openSuse packages and see what 4.5's got in store for us.
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A Review: Ben NanoNote Gets Small with Embedded Linux and Copyleft Hardware
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Qi Hardware is now shipping its first "copyleft hardware" device, the ultra-portable Ben NanoNote. The palm-sized notebook is designed to be a hackable hardware platform for Linux developers, akin to what the Arduino board is for electronics projects.
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Algorithmic Music Composition With Linux, Part 1
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Over the next few weeks my articles will focus on software systems designed with special consideration for music composition by the use of algorithms. Wiktionary defines an algorithm as "... a precise step-by-step plan for a computational procedure that begins with an input value and yields an output value in a finite number of steps".
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Linux Mint 9: Fast, Stable, and Beautiful
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It’s been a long time since I last looked at Mint, and a lot has changed since. After Ubuntu 10.04 LTS was released, I thought I would take a look at Linux Mint 9 “Isadora” to see what they are doing with the latest Ubuntu base.
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Fedora 13
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After the release of Ubuntu 10.04, is now the turn of Fedora developers to make front-page news, with a new version of their distribution. Fedora 13 is recently launched that comes loaded with news features and is one of the most popular Linux distributions.
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CentOS 5.5 Left Me Clueless
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CentOS is a venerable server OS, no doubt about it! But when it comes to desktop, the same OS is a pig - you can't tame it to your liking.
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Top 10 FluxBox Themes
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FluxBox lightweight window manager based on blackbox window manager, we already reviewed FluxBox and how to install it on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS follow this post.
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Amarok 2.3.1 adds new applets
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The Amarok Project developers have released the first point update to the 2.3.x branch of their popular open source music player for the KDE desktop, adding two new applets and an Automated Playlist Generator
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Ubuntu 10.04 vs Fedora 13
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Spring is a lovely time of year, when the flowers bloom, the birds sing and community Linux projects release the fruit of their winter labours. Specifically, the Fedora and Ubuntu projects come to the end of their six-month cycles.
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Three floppy-based distros
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This might sound strange, but I generally don’t endorse the floppy distros that are still available here and there on the Internet, and as a general rule, still work fine.
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Lucid Puppy - Linux for Legacy Computers
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One of the original targets of Linux was the under-powered computer gathering dust in the closet destined for electronic disposal. While that sounds like a noble goal, it isn't reality for the majority of today's Linux distributions. Xubuntu says it's for the limited resource computer, but even it has a minimum memory requirement of 256 MB.
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E17 review
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Enlightenment has been quite interesting to me. It has not even got a beta release so far yet I like to use it. That is because, it does things differently. It is very efficient, keeps the CPU far more cooler than any other desktop environment.
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Introducing GNUzilla and IceCat
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GNUzilla is the GNU version of the Mozilla suite, and GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Firefox browser. Its main advantage is an ethical one: it is entirely free software. While the Firefox source code from the Mozilla project is free software, they distribute and recommend non-free software as plug-ins and addons.
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