Scientific Linux is a GNU/Linux release put together by Fermilab, CERN, and various other labs and universities around the world. Its primary purpose is to reduce duplicated effort of the labs, and to have a common install base for the various experimenters. It is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, recompiled from source.
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Free Software Foundation statement on WebM and VP8
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From today, users will be able to download and install free software to play and encode the new WebM format. WebM is based on the Matroska container format -- replacing Ogg -- and the VP8 video codec which replaces Theora. Crucially, the Vorbis audio codec is part of the new WebM specification.
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digiKam Photo Manager To Get Face Recognition
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Linux users really love Google Picasa even though it's not a native Linux application (unpack the .deb and you'll notice some wine.exe and other such files). Reading the comments from our "best linux photo manager / organizer" post, it seems face recognition is the feature that attracts people the most to Picasa.
Well, it seems Google Picasa will have a serious native Linux competitor,
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Major Browser Vendors Launch WebM Free Open Video Project
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The web received a shiny new gift Wednesday morning — a truly open and royalty-free video codec for HTML5 web pages. The new open media project called WebM; the VP8 codec is at the center of it. All Free and Open Source.
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Google Open Sources VP8 Video Codec, Packs It Into WebM Video Format - Already Available On YouTube
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As you probably know, a Google I/O conference was held today and a lot of blogs said they will announce big things. And big it was: Google officially announced the release of an open source, royalty-free video format called WebM which will be using the VP8 codec Google aquired from On2 as well as Vorbis audio.
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Debian + Backports is Better than the Latest Ubuntu
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Debian Stable has a bad reputation of being little obsolete. It's never able to catch up with time. But I don't buy to the view that Debian Stable is outdated.
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Parallellized boot is now the default in Debian/unstable
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Since this evening, parallel booting is the default in Debian/unstable for machines using dependency based boot sequencing.
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Set up Libvirt 0.7.7&Xen 4.0 Dom0 (2.6.31.13 pvops) on top of Fedora 13 RC2
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Install Xen 4.0 and Libvirt like on F12 ([1]). Via my experience xend will hang for 5-7 min at startup and xen managed bridging will fail as well .At the same time PV guests won’t be able to obtain IP via interface virbr0. Workaround for the issue follows bellow.
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Why I Steal Movies… Even Ones I'm In
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Like a billion other people, I download things illegally. I'm also an actor, writer and director whose income depends on revenue from DVDs, movies and books. This leads to many conflicts in my head, in my heart, and in bars.
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A conference on software patents and free software
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On April 29, the University of Colorado held a conference on patents and free software. The following is not a comprehensive report of the event; instead, it focuses on a few of the more interesting moments.
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Using SVG Templates for Design
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This tutorial we will look at application support for creating high-quality designs using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) templates. SVG offers some unique opportunities over several of the other popular file formats in which templates are found.
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Making Movies on Linux with Kdenlive
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I've been avoiding video editing for years. I've seen a couple of tutorials that always made it look too complicated. But recently, at a model airplane fun fly, I shot a lot of short video clips with my digital camera. I needed a way to combine the good parts into a video I could put on the web.
Read more »Ubuntu’s Path to Freedom From Mono Now a Short One
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The Ubuntu distribution of GNU/Linux is removing F-Spot from its default installation, which leaves very little in terms of Mono dependencies - packages that are really simple to replace anyway
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7 Best Free and Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS)
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A content management system (CMS) is a software used to simplify the management and publication of HTML content such as documents and images. I have here a list of some of the most well-known and perhaps the best free and open source content management systems (CMS) available
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IP Innovation v. Red Hat/Novell - The Prior Art They Used at Trial
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I know the first thing you wanted to know after you heard that Red Hat and Novell had prevailed and the jury had
found that IP Innovation's patents were worthless was this: did we at Groklaw help when we did prior art searching? The answer is, Yes. It turns out that you did.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanFrom the very start, directories have served a very useful purpose on the Internet. (One I find useful for example is Free Web Directory). News sites can also be considered directories: they index and categorize news stories! What about categorizing software? In the open source world you get Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat; there are still, believe it or not, shareware and freeware directories like FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and Freeware Downloads (although you need to be careful, as they are not like their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselAbout Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software?, it's clear that the topic of software directories is very hot. Most of what you find on Google, however, are not pointing to free and open soruce software -- or worse, they mix the two. Examples of such sites are Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download, which simply don't focus on "free as in freedom", and still can be used as good free software directories.
