Jan Mette (funkyou) passed away of as-yet unknown causes. Jan was a major contributor to the Arch Linux community, the creator of KDEmod and a founding member of the Chakra team.
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Mandriva 2010 Spring backgrounds contribution
Mandriva will provide 10 more backgrounds to complete official design of your favorite distribution. How to participate?
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Chem4Word Should Support Free Software Platforms/Office Suites to Better Qualify as Free Software
Chem4Word is an example of Free software which is trapped deep inside Microsoft's proprietary cage and needs rescuing
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Get Slack!
Like most X-MS Windows users, I did not come to Slackware directly. I took a round-about route through a few other distributions first.
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OpenSolaris back on track.
It would appear that the OpenSolaris project is back on track. This is a bit long overdue. The acquisition of Sun by Oracle left a few projects in questionable states. It was unknown as to whether Oracle would continue supporting these open source projects. OpenSolaris was included in that list.
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Community Voting - Inkscape 0.48 About Screen
It looks like it's time to start voting. Following is the list of all entries and who they were by.
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FSFE founder Georg Greve awarded German Cross of Merit
Berlin 28. April 2010. Georg Greve, founding president of the Free Software Foundation Europe, has received the Cross of Merit on ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany (Verdienstkreuz am Bande). Georg received this high award from the German President for his work on Free Software and Open Standards.
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Hackers -are- saving the Planet at eth0:2010 Summer this August !
"Hackers -are- saving the Planet at eth0:2010 Summer this August ! Eth0:2010 Summer will be held from the 10th until the 13th of August in Wieringerwerf, NL..." —— via DegenereScience ——
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Open source software is no longer just for alpha-geeks
So you've got to cut costs, but you're not a manager. You're a software developer, or a power user, or just someone who needs to keep the bottom line healthy enough to support your salary. These are ideal situations for introducing open source software solutions into your environment.
Read more »The stories we are all sick of hearing
Are you thinking about writing an Article on a topic related to Linux? Since I spend way too much time reading tech news and even contribute some of my own allow me to save you some time.
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Jon 'maddog' Hall's Picks for Today's Six Best OSS Projects
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RE: 10 characteristics of a Linux Guru?
This article is a response to an article posted on daniweb.com, by Ken Hess. What prompted Ken to write his original piece was an article somewhere, written supposedly by a Linux guru, but falling short of Ken's expectation
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Richard Stallman’s Life Dedication to Software Freedom
Richard Stallman explains how much he has sacrificed so that the world of software will be a better place for users and developers alike
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Come Out as Part of KDE
Part of the repositioning of the KDE brands was choosing an appropriate "KDE Software Label" for developers working on applications outside the main KDE Software Compilation. Technology developed by KDE is used far and wide, as can be witnessed on kde-apps.org and other sites.
Read more »Vorbis is not Theora
Recently I have started to mess around with the Vorbis audio codec, commonly found within the Ogg media container. Unlike Theora, which I had also experimented with but won’t post the results for fear of a backlash, I must say I am rather impressed with Vorbis.
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