Songbird 1.8.0 adds support for more devices
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".
Ubuntu 10.10 Beta Released
- 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
today's leftovers:
- 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
some howtos:
- 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
How To Master GIMP, For Graphics, Quickly And Easily
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.
Sweet Caroline - Caroline’s Identity Crisis
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.
No Steam for Linux - Right Now
linuxjournal.com: Despite some early teasing, it now seems Steam is not coming to Linux after all - at least for now.
review article about antiX core
usalug-org.blogspot: This week I have been exploring Debian based systems that offer strong, flexible networking.
What I want from computers
FreeOrion 0.3.15 released
- FreeOrion 0.3.15 released
- Two FOSS gems
- OpenArena - The OpenSource Quake III Arena
The 8 Best Sites For Funny Computer Desktop Wallpapers
makeuseof.com: In order to promote those positive vibes that’ll get your days off to a good start, I’d like to offer up eight free wallpaper sites I found that offer the best funny wallpapers for your desktop that you’ll find anywhere.
Linux: A Double Edged Sword for Open Source
networkworld.com: Quick, name the most successful open source project of all time. You probably didn't hesitate a second did you? For better and sometimes for worse, Linux is the poster child for the open source movement. Is what's good for Linux, good for all open source?
A Guide to Today's Top 10 Linux Distributions
pcworld.com: One of the most confusing things for the newcomer to Linux is how many distributions, or versions, of the operating system there are. What follows, then, is a roundup of sorts of the top 10 Linux distributions today.
What's the best Linux BitTorrent app?
tuxradar.com: Not all BitTorrent apps are made equal. Yes, there's a big range of features such as support for encryption and random port access, but at the same there's also a huge range of speeds -
Open Source: No one is working for free
networkworld.com: People continue to wonder how to make money in the free and open source software world. It’s dressed up in discussions of how one makes money when you give away the software for free.
OpenOffice.org: preparing the next ten years
- OpenOffice.org Conference 2010: preparing the next ten years
- OOo: Print file format changes on Linux
Block crackers with 3 locks to your SSH door
Learn 3 ways of hardening SSH access to your system to block would-be crackers
My favourite Linux wallpapers (so far)
openattitude.com: I maintain that computers are the hot rods of the 21st century, and changing up your desktop background is the first and easiest step to pimping your ride. Today I thought I’d share my favourites.
Who Contributed The Most During X Server 1.9?
phoronix.com: Tiago Vignatti has now compiled some statistics surrounding the top contributors to X.Org Server 1.9 and related X components just looking at this most recent development cycle. There's also numbers for the input, video, and Mesa components too.
7 Things You Can Do in KDE, But Not in Windows
earthweb.com: When I tell people that I use Linux, they look at me with pity. When I go on to tell them that the KDE desktop is in many ways more innovative than Windows 7, the looks of pity changes to caution.
