Qmmp (Qt Multimedia Player) is a Qt-based audio player for Linux which resembles the appearance of XMMS (and Audacious for that matter), so users of these two players which want to have a player which integrates well in KDE will probably want to give it a try.
Read more »Stop unfair advertising - get your government to promote free PDF readers!
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The Free Software Foundation Europe calls on all Europeans to seek out advertisements for proprietary PDF readers on their government's websites, and report them. In addition, FSFE has prepared a petition demanding an end to such advertising practices, and encourages the public to sign it.
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Debian 5.0.6 "Lenny" released
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The Debian Project has released the sixth maintenance update to Debian 5.0. The updated version includes a number of updates and addresses several bugs and security issues found in the 5.0.5 release from the end of June
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Who is using free software?
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Free software is software you can study, modify and share without restriction. But unlike proprietary software, there is no big budget marketing campaign behind it. Rather, people discover it and come to value the freedom it provides. What are these people's motivations for working on free software? Why is community and sharing so important? Why should everyone be using free software?
Read more »What we have learned about Linux and Virtualization....
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In this article Brian and Joe discuss their tips and tricks learned from 5 years of migration off of hardware to a virtual world. The good points, the bad points, and how we have found best to mitigate it.
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Start of feature cull for Firefox 4
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Mozilla has confirmed that it has started culling features for version 4.0 of its open source Firefox web browser; the Account Manager feature - announced in April of this year - has now been dropped from the major browser update
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New Event Video: Software Patents and the Commons
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Keynote address by Professor Eben Moglen, “The Commons As An Actor in Transforming Global Political Economy -(September 1st, 2010)
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Meet the free software community
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The free software community is a worldwide movement dedicated to the goal of freedom in the use of technology. This diverse community is made up of programmers, designers, writers and everyday advocates who contribute to make and promote software that respects our freedoms.
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Driver dilemma in KDE workspaces 4.5
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KDE is currently blamed for errors in external components: the graphic drivers. I am lately reading quite some crap that we KWin devs knew about problems in the drivers and shipped 4.5 nevertheless with changes enabled which trigger the driver bugs. That is of course not true.
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Nightingale - Much Anticipated Songbird Fork Which is Soon Going to Have its First Release
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Songbird Music Player was among the most beloved Open Source project and it still is for many, except for Linux users. Songbird is still open source, but developers behind Songbird have decided to discontinue support for Linux and the concentrate on Mac and Windows versions of Songbird.
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A Quick Look at Shutter 0.86.4 - Powerful Desktop Screenshot Application
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Shutter is probably the most powerful screenshot application for Linux, and the main reason for this is that it comes with tons of configuration options for the final process of taking a simple screenshot. And why not, considering there are people out there who need to take a screenshot of a single window or a desktop region instead of fullscreen only, like the GNOME default screenshot program.
Read more »Blender Foundation's Sintel Open Movie Will Have Its Official Premiere in Another 14 Days
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Sintel is an independently produced short film, initiated by the Blender Foundation as a means to further improve and validate the free/open source 3D creation suite Blender. Between, if you haven't heard about it yet, you probably haven't heard about 3 previous open source movie projects by Blender namely Yo Frankie, Elephants Dream and Big Buck Bunny.
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Open source tools for audio editing (jamin,Ardour and rosengarden)
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Often when I suggest Linux as an alternative I hear, yes i like it unfortunate that there is nothing as software for processing digital audio, so I must stay with Windows.
Read more »Taking Screenshots in Ubuntu using terminal only
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There is no need of a graphical utility to take the screen shot of your desktop, no need to wonder how.. Lets try it with your terminal. Terminal is a powertool and solution to all the problems in linux
The advantage of using commandline tool is that if you need to take a screenshot in an environment, where you cannot run a graphical screenshot utility prefer this method.
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TORCS Review - The Open Racing Car Simulator
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One of the beautiful features that really impressed me is the possibility to increase or decrease how the time passes. For example, pressing Shift++ (Shift and +) will increase the time, and thus making the speed look like it has doubled or tripled. To go back to normal time, just press the - (minus) key. The feeling is amazing!
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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.
