Just 3 days ago we were telling you that Shotwell (a photo manager for the GNOME desktop) 0.5 will be released soon and now Shotwell 0.5 is available for Ubuntu users in it's official PPA.
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Epidemic 3.1 installation guide
Epidemic is a desktop-oriented, KDE, Debian-based (GNU/Linux) distribution developed in Brazil. This article provides a detailed, step by step guide on how to partition a disk and install Epidemic 3.1, the latest stable release.
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Qt 4.7 debuts QML for declarative UI development
The Qt developers have announced a technical preview for QT 4.7, the cross platform C++ framework for GUI applications. According to the developers, the pre-release is not suitable for production use, but will give a good idea of how they plan to enhance the framework. According to the developers, the final release of Qt 4.7 will be around the middle of the year.
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Window Maker Desktop: Lightweight Linux Minimalism
Window Maker is a fast, lightweight window manager based as closely as possible on the look and feel of the NeXTStep interface. (You may be familiar with NeXTStep an ancestor of Mac OSX, although the look and feel has changed a fair bit between the two.)
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U-boot for ARM on QEMU
Instructions to compile and run the U-Boot bootloader inside a QEMU emulation of an ARM platform.
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Kernel Log: Stable kernels analysed, Linux without firmware, new graphics drivers
The development of Linux 2.6.34 has started and is causing heated discussions on the LKML. LWN.net has analysed Linux 2.6.32.9 for security fixes and found almost twenty of them. Linux-Libre removes proprietary files from the kernel, and new graphics drivers for Radeon cards offer numerous improvements
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Victoria expands Linux e-voting rollout
Victoria’s Electoral Commission has flagged plans to expand its use of electronic voting kiosks based on Linux software in the next state election in November this year.
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The Direction Of Intel Graphics With Fedora 13 Alpha
Fedora 13 Alpha was released yesterday with a plethora of new features and updated packages for this Red Hat Linux distribution. Each Fedora release always pulls in the very latest Linux graphics code.
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Psi is a free, open source instant messaging application designed for the Jabber IM network (including Google Talk) compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
If you're tired with the Jabber functionality of Empathy or Pidgin, both lacking lots of important features for this protocol, you should give Psi a try.
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Listem Music Player 0.6.5 was released
Listem Music Player 0.6.5 was released yesterday and it comes with many changes and fixes:
* Playlists order are keeped
* Fixed some encoding problem when downloading podcast
* Write a new API to display html
* New preference window layout
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Elive 2.0 "Topaz " - Combine the stability, speed and beauty
After 2 years of of development, Elive 2.0 landed under the codename "Topaz". The new release comes with many improvments. Elive "Topaz" is based on debian and use Enlightenment 17 as a default desktop .The authors of Elive claim that it offers great visual appear even with minimal hardware resources.
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Designing a Secure Linux System
So the question is, how do can we most effectively use free software to protect against remote attackers, that means viruses and trojan horses – which includes infected files run from USB devices.
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The newbie's guide to hacking the Linux kernel
You don't need a PhD in computer science and years of experience to hack the kernel. We asked prolific kernel hacker (and Linux Format reader!) Greg Kroah-Hartman to tell us what it takes for newbies to patch the Linux kernel - here's what he had to say...
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Nautilus Image Converter
Nautilus image converter is a nautilus extension to mass resize or rotate images. if installed an additional menu entry will appear when you right click the mouse inside nautilus. It is a convenient utility which can save you lot of effort.
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OpenShot Video Editor 1.1 Released!
OpenShot 1.1 (non-linear video editor) was released yesterday and it addresses 40 bugs and features.
The most requested feature was probably the "Undo / Redo" support which has finally been included in OpenShot.
Other new features and improvements in OpenShot 1.1:
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