Speaking of LibreOffice, WebUpd8 reader Nathan Moos mentioned some refreshing mockups called Citrus UI. Citrus tries to remain somewhat familiar while brining more logic by reorganizing things differently - such as the File menu which currently holds commands that are in no way related to the current file.
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Control Your Network Traffic with Wondershaper in Ubuntu/ Debian Linux
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f you are a Network Administrator with little knowledge in Network Protocols and IPtables, don't worry you can also control your network traffic with a simple tool named wondershaper. It Works on Linux 2.4 & higher.
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Lutris: A New Universal Gaming Platform for Linux is in Development
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Lutris is a new gaming platform for Linux that aims at providing easy game installation, configuration and launching system for games. It is different from other services like PlayOnLinux as it integrates a large number of games from a number of different systems that includes console emulators also.
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Trisquel 4.5 development release, crowd funding and holiday presents
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quidam: "Trisquel 4.5 STS Slaine beta release
After the very successful release of our latest LTS edition -more than 17.000 direct downloads so far!- we are already working on the next one. Trisquel 4.5 STS Slaine will be based on Ubuntu 10.10, and the first beta images -installable live CD- are ready for download. You can follow the development in the wiki."
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Blag 139k alpha avialable
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Koko_the_crazy_koala: "Hi everyone,
After 5 days of hard work, finally an iso is avialable for blag i686. I'll upload the x86_64 version later today.
Download it here : http://www.zenblagger.org/blaggers/Blag-139k-alpha-i686.iso and please report the bugs :)"
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How to create Debian packages with alternative compression methods
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While gzip is the standard Unix tool when it comes to compression, there are other tools available and some of them are performing better than gzip in terms of compression ratio.
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FSFE concerned about Novell patent sale
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Free Software Foundation Europe has written to the German competition authorities in order to share its concerns about the sale of Novell's patents to a consortium called CPTN, made up of Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and EMC.
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Firefox Four Isn't Going To Kick Ass - It's Already Kicking Ass!
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Saw this article, and laughed. Firefox Four isn't going to kick ass, it's already kicking ass. I've been running Firefox Four Beta Eight for a while now, and I like it. No, it's not perfect. It's not meant to be perfect, it's a beta!
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FSFE Newsletter - January 2011
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Public institutions - hares or snails?
Already, 203 public institutions have removed advertisements for proprietary PDF readers from their websites. Particularly outstanding were the responses from Croatia, Russia and Slovenia. In Croatia all except one reported institution deleted the advertisement…
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Read more »Open source campaigners urge investigation of Novell patent sale
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Open Source Initiative (OSI) has asked a German competition law regulator to investigate the purchase of patents owned by Novell by CPTN, a consortium led by Microsoft and including Apple, Oracle and EMC.
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RIAA record companies settle a copyright infringement class action lawsuit
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Sony Music Entertainment Canada Inc., EMI Music Canada Inc., Universal Music Canada Inc. and Warner Music Canada Co. have agreed to pay songwriters and music publishers $47.5 million in damages for copyright infringement and overdue royalties to settle a class action lawsuit.
Read more »The GPL/LGPL App Store For Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BSD, and Solaris
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Looking at Apple's imitation of Apt, I think that we should build versions of Apt for the proprietary operating systems, to help spread Free Software to those who need it most, the ones who don't know about it.
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Using Pipes in the Bash Shell
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There are a number of ways you can use pipes in the Bash Shell to send the output of one command into the input in another command.
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AMD Puts Out Radeon HD 6000 Open-Source Driver
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AMD has just released their open-source driver for the Radeon HD 6000 series graphics cards (sans the Cayman GPUs) with KMS, 2D, and 3D acceleration.
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Official Nagios Training Schedule January 2011
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The official Nagios training classes, taught online by Mike Weber of CyberMontana Inc, have been scheduled for January 2011.
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Read contents from Free Software Magazine
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.
