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h-online.com: Nearly three months after the last update, the Songbird developers have released version 1.8.0 of their open source media player, code named "Orbital".

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• Ubuntu 10.10 Beta (Maverick Meerkat) Released
• Ubuntu 10.10 Beta Upgraded Successfully From Ubuntu 10.04.1
• Ubuntu 10.10 beta – an insider’s view

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My guide on how to make a webcam server has had a lot of feedback and so I decided to give two other methods to achieve it with two different software webcam-server and ZoneMinder Webcam-server is absolutely the easiest way to show on the net what is seen from your webcam, the software is very stable (I’ve just installed Ubuntu, and shows the date 2004) is based on Java and to make it work is enough to give these commands: #> aptitude install webcam-server #> export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so #> webcam-server Now point your browser at localhost:8888 and see a snapshot of that seen from the webcam.

ApacheCon 2010 is now open for registration. The three-day convention takes place in Atlanta at the Westin Peachtree hotel. Lots of speakers and informative sessions. There will be professional training sessions during the two days prior to the conference. Early bird special runs now to September 10.

As you might know Medfloss.org (formerly medfoss.apfelkraut.org) tries to provide a comprehensive and structured overview of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects for the health care domain. After the initial launch 6 months ago it recently welcomed the 200th project in its repository: the GPL-licensed iDART software - iDART is the abbreviation of "Intelligent Dispensing of Antiretroviral Treatment" and according to its authors addresses many of the challenges faced by public ART dispensing pharmacies in developing countries.

It was bound to happen. Google is now roping in the power of hardware acceleration to boost the performance of its Chrome browser. In a post on the Chromium blog late last week the Chromium developers announced that they would add GPU (graphics processing unit) support to future editions of the Chrome browser, bringing Google's application in line with other major browsers.

(São Paulo, Brazil: September 2, 2010) - The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced an upcoming blog to report on wider activities within the LPI community of Linux professionals, affiliates and training partners. The blog--"Community Corner"(http://www.lpi.org/communitycorner)--will feature commentary and regular contributions from Jon "maddog" Hall, a widely recognized mentor and leader in the programming community and a longtime and respected champion of Free and Open Source Software. Mr. Hall is also Executive Director of Linux International (http://www.li.org/).

Your editor was recently amused to encounter this ZDNet article on "Android's dirty little secret." According to that article, the openness of Android has led to an increase in the control held by handset manufacturers and wireless carriers and the fragmentation of the platform. The Open Handset Alliance is in a "shambles," and Android phones have undone all the gains won by that great standard bearer for openness and freedom - the iPhone. One might easily conclude that Android is just business as usual for the mobile telephony industry, but there are a few things worth contemplating here.

my first report from the OpenOffice.org 2010 conference in Budapest: Cool extensions, the power of OpenDocument, what Oracle thinks of OpenOffice and what Microsoft thinks of office files standards

A few minutes ago, the Ubuntu development team unleashed the Beta version of the up-coming Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) operating system, due for release in October 10th, 2010.

In the previous article, A look inside a MySQL Daemon plugin, we were introduced to the MySQL Plugin API. It talked about the most simple plugin type—Daemon plugins. It starts with the basic structure of a plugin—what a plugin declaration should look like, what plugin types are, and so on. Then it described features common to all plugin types—initialization and de-initialization callbacks, status variables, and configuration system variables.

• Does your FOSS project need a new logo?
• TuxRadar Podcast Season 2 Episode 16
• Qt and Layouts
• Your worst enemy: undefined symbols
• Google Video Chat for openSUSE
• Calling all Fedora packrats and swag collectors
• Searching the desktop with Pinot and Catfish
• Should OpenSolaris users consider moving to FreeBSD?
• Red Hat hits 52-week high after boost from analyst firm
• Ubuntu in Education
• Open Source Software is “coming of age”: Accenture
• Review: KDE 4.5
• Review: sidux 2010-01 "Hypnos"
• Announcing WriteType 1.0.98
• PDFCreator: Easy PDFs From Anywhere
• FLOSS Weekly 133: LinuxMCE
• ‘Evil’ Eric Schmidt Debuts in Video Targeting Google Privacy

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• UUID on Linux fstab file
• /dev/xdx does not have any corresponding BIOS drive
• How to Rip Audio CD in Linux
• How to fix your Debian file system with fsck
• VAG-COM (USB) using Wine on Linux
• How to clear the cache from memory
• setup Multiple simultaneous keyboards with unique layouts
• Install Mac OS X boot-up splash screen theme in Ubuntu 10.04
• How to set CPU affinity for a process in FreeBSD
• Monitor bandwidth consumption per process - NetHogs
• Share a single file to any device with browser
• Xsel, access X selection from command line
• Say Goodbye to Repetitive Typing on Linux with Autokey

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A personal information manager (often known as a PIM tool) is a type of collaborative software that can help you manage your life by offering personal organising functionality. This type of software enables you to more efficiently manage and plan your business and personal life by keeping track of contact information, appointments, tasks, diaries, to-do lists, and birthdays.

Many of the facts about Samsung's Galaxy Tab Android tablet were already available before IFA, but today's presentation at the consumer electronics fair in Berlin did offer a further few surprises: The 7 inch device includes a fully functional mobile phone and could, therefore, also be regarded as a giant smartphone. This also means that it meets the access criteria Google has stipulated for the Android Market – and that users can conveniently tap into a vast selection of apps, which is not the case with most of the other Android tablets currently available.

Samsung showed off its Galaxy Tab, an Android-powered iPad alternative at Germany's IFA 2010 trade show. The device features a 7-inch display, front-facing camera, 3G and is the first tablet to come loaded with Android 2.2 Froyo and Flash 10.1.

To me its apparent that trying to develop the Linux desktop marketplace using traditional ideas and avenues simply hasn't and isn't going to work. We've been waiting for a decade for the year of the Linux Desktop to happen. I think thats proof enough that using proprietary ideas to drive the Linux desktop market forward is not working.

ostatic.com/blog: 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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mairin.wordpress: Remember Caroline Casual-User? After speaking with some of you after the last blog post, I think I may have misrepresented her in terms of Fedora’s target user.

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linuxjournal.com: Despite some early teasing, it now seems Steam is not coming to Linux after all - at least for now.

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