The largest difference is that Amarok's design philosophy is influenced by the current interface design theories, while Clementine's are more oriented towards stone geeks, including every detail imaginable.
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System76 second gen looking gorgeous
If you’re looking for Ubuntu powered netbook that is as beautiful outside as it is inside then prepare to coo over the latest ‘Starling’ netbooks to hatch from the nest of Ubuntu-dedicated hardware company System76…
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Sporadic NAEV Newsletter Vol. 1
An update on the project's progress over the last several months.
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Bangarang - A KDE Media Player That Has Every Potential To Became a KDE Default
Now, the default Dragon Media Player of KDE have a serious competition in Bangarang. Dragon player is simple yet totally functional. On the other hand Bangarang is new, it's good and it is rapidly improving.
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Installing Nginx With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 13
Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on a Fedora 13 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.
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Five distros for “slow” machines
One or two of the five distros I mentioned yesterday had been labeled as “lightweight” either by their designers or the community around them, and I was probably pushing that definition just a little bit.
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Firefox 4 ready to go
A beta version of Firefox 4.0 has been released with a new look and new features It's been a while in the coming but a beta version of Firefox 4.0 is now out. The most noticeable changes to the browser are the interface ones. Although the interface changes are not available in all beta versions yet they are included in the Windows-specific release.
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Periodic table of the open source graphics and design apps
Are you ever overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of open source software projects produced by the community? Even when looking at just a subset — such as graphics applications. Let’s examine each design field in turn.
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Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 10.04
Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on an Ubuntu 10.04 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.
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Clementine: A triumph of Free Software
Ages ago, in the long-forgotten days of 2008, there was Amarok 1.4. And it was good. Then KDE4 came along and Amarok was rewritten, reshaped, becoming something... different. Something unsettling. Something not altogether pleasant. Fear not. Today we have Clementine.
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The Legend of Edgar 0.65
The Legend of Edgar has been updated to 0.65. It's time to meet the Sorceror
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FFmpeg's VP8 Decoder Blasts Google's Decoder
The ffvp8 library is this new VP8 decoder created by three FFmpeg developers and after a few weeks of work it's already complete enough to be bit-exact with that of Google's libvpx, while it's much faster than the official decoder.
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Master file renaming tasks with KRename
If you haven’t run into a situation where you need to rename multiple files in one go, you haven’t been using a computer for long. When the next time comes, turn to KRename. Its simple graphical interface makes renaming files easy for average users, and it offers a powerful template language for advanced users with more complex renaming tasks.
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Kongoni Linux- Another slackware based linux distribution
Kongoni GNU/Linux is a Slackware-based, desktop-oriented GNU/Linux distribution and live CD. Its main features include a graphical installer, a Kongoni Integrated Setup System (KISS), and an easy-to-use Ports Installation GUI (PIG). The distribution's package management borrows its main concepts from BSD ports, with an intuitive graphical package installer
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Linux Mint 9 LXDE: A quick glance
Breaking with past tradition, the Linux Mint folks have done away with “Community Editions”, instead bringing the non-Gnome flavors of Mint fully under the Mint umbrella. Linux Mint 9 LXDE is now in general release. Here are my thoughts.
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