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Read more »Firefox 3 alpha 7 released
"The most significant addition in alpha 7 is backend support for full-page zoom, which showed up in the nightly builds late last month. The alpha 7 release also includes support for SVG lighting and tile filters, redesigned XUL menus and tooltips, long-awaited color management support (still disabled by default), and support for cross-site XMLHttpRequest.."
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Unforked Ghostscript released, now under the GPL, and works with CUPS
This week Ghostscript, an open source postscript processor, released version 8.60. Ghostscript releases are not normally newsworthy since they are frequent and incremental, but this release is special.
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Share Your Music Collection With gnump3d
So, you have a large collection of mp3 or ogg files and you want to share it with your buddy in your working place? Or perhaps you want to share it with your neighbour? Whoever you want to share your collection with is not the matter that we want to discuss here.
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Creating Web 2.0 Buttons in Linux with Xara Xtreme
Web graphics designers running GNU/Linux seem to use the Gimp, Inkscape or Photoshop in a virtual environment. I have found the feature rich Xara Xtreme to be a good alternative for web graphics creation and editing. It is open source and you can download it here.
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What is the Completely Fair Scheduler?
If you’ve been following Linux kernel news then you’ve probably heard about the new Completely Fair Scheduler that has been merged into the upcoming 2.6.23 kernel release. I decided to do a bit of research into how the current Linux scheduler works, and what makes the new scheduling algorithm so interesting. Here’s what I learned.
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Developers free to work on open-source Atheros Wi-Fi
While Linux desktop users have long been able to use Wi-Fi cards based on Atheros chip sets, they haven't been able to do so without using proprietary Atheros code.
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Awn Manager Preview
So maybe a week or so ago I posted about the Awn theme manager, which was still in early stages but was nice. Well it has made considerable progress, and is now not only a theme manager but pretty much all the preferences, in Awn.
Read more »Linux and Fonts
Ever since I started to use Linux I have always seen how to's on fixing the look of fonts. All of them claimed to make fonts look smoother and nicer. I never tried any of them because I thought, "my fonts look fine." Also I was to lazy to do any of the fixes...
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Review: Austrumi 1.5.1
Everytime I am about to buy some new shoes I am very impressed with how good the same models look in the version for kids. It is maybe the small size itself that makes these models (even if they are the same as the adults ones) look a lot better.
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Pidgin 2.1.0 released
Pidgin 2.1.0, which includes a number of compelling user interface improvements, has officially been released.
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Acer clarifies position on Linux PCs
Acer is planning to sell Linux-based PCs to the UK market, the company told ZDNet.co.uk.
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Sun unveils open mobile platform
Sun has unveiled a new open mobile platform called JavaFX, which it hopes will bring open rapid open development to the mobile space, an environment long dominated by telcos and cellular carriers.
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CNR has hit the streets
CNR has splashed down. The new service Linspire co. that is aimed to make software installation that much easier on Linux
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MySpaceIM Pidgin Protocol Plugin
Welcome. This page contains files for the MySpaceIM Protocol Plugin (known as msimprpl for short), which allows you to IM your friends on MySpaceIM using the Pidgin instant messenging program and possibly other programs that use libpurple, in the future.
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