In addition to the information we provide on open source projects, there are many good sites that allow you to further investigate open source projects before you make the decision to download and install. Sure, you're likely to know SourceForge and Eclipse, but where else can you look? Here are six good choices.
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Mingle brings group video chat to Linux
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The developers at Collabora have extended Jingle—a multimedia chat protocol for XMPP—so that it can support audio and video conversations with more than two participants. Support for this new XMPP extension, which they call Mingle, could eventually land in Empathy, the GNOME instant messaging client.
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40 Open Source Tools for Protecting Your Privacy
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You don't need to fork over big bucks – or even any bucks – to keep your online activities and identity secret. The open source community has dozens of privacy-related projects in development, and some of them have already proven themselves to be among the best privacy protection tools available.
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Bugzilla 3.2 has shiny NASA interface enhancements
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Mozilla has announced the official release of Bugzilla 3.2, a significant new version that adds a large number of major improvements.
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Ride the D-Bus, Control your Linux desktop from the shell
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What is the D-Bus? From the D-Bus documentation: "D-Bus is an inter-process communication mechanism—a medium for local communication between processes running on the same host. (Inter-host connects may be added in the future, but that is not what D-Bus is meant for).
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Keeping tabs on your network traffic
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One of the first things I do upon installing a Linux distribution is put the Network Monitor applet on my GNOME panel. Watching the blue lights twinkle on and off makes me aware of network traffic.
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Creating your perfect Linux system.
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If you are looking for step by step instructions to creating your perfect Linux system then stop reading now. How can I know what your perfect system is? All I can give are step by step instructions for what I think is a perfect system. Which I am not going to do.
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Why Ubuntu and Too Much Trust Can Be Bad
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One of desktop Linux’s chief selling points is its near-immunity to malware. Whether this superiority is due to the Unix security measures that Windows lacks, or to the mere fact that comparatively few people use Linux on desktop computers, it makes Linux attractive in an era when all manner of nasty things can be done to computer users by exploiting bugs in the software they run.
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The H3v web browser. Is it a Dillo killer?
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When it comes to browsers, the Unix community is positively spoiled for choice: Firefox, Konqueror, Flock, Opera, Epiphany, Galeon, Kazehakase, Links, Elinks, Lynx, W3m and Dillo. From the minimal to the relatively bloated all life is there.
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Shred and secure-delete: tools for wiping files, partitions and disks in GNU/Linux
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I carry a small, laminated card indicating my subscription to the IUSP (International Union of the Super Paranoid, tin hat division). Well, you can't be too careful. After all, we live in a dangerous world and computers are just an extension of that.
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Adblock Plus 1.0 released
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Adblock Plus is Free Software released under the MPL License. It runs on Firefox as well as IceCat and IceWeasel with the primary goal of removing advertisements...
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How to set a static IP in Ubuntu from the shell
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One of the first things I do for my desktops is set them with a static IP. Below is how I go about it.
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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #119
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Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase II, Archive of Interviews, New MOTU: Onkar Shinde, Ubuntu Tamil Team, Ubuntu Tunisia Team, Ubuntu-NL release party, Launchpad 2/1/11 and Open ID Support, RSS feeds for Ubuntu Forums, Ubuntu Podcast #13, Full Circle Magazine #19, Community Interview of Nicolas Scerpella, Hardening the Linux Desktop, Coming Soon: Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference, 50 amazing Ubunt time-
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Blocking Zombie Spam Netblocks
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There are network subnets that have been taken over by Spammers and run by bots. These networks are recorded and documented by Spamhaus and provide you a quick way to modify your firewall to eliminate these know blocks of Spam.
Read more »GNOME's Empathy IM client gets file transfer support
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Empathy is an open source instant messaging client for the GNOME desktop environment. It made its big debut in GNOME 2.24, which was released in September.
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