Locate Press published an updated edition of "Desktop GIS: Mapping the Planet with Open Source Tools" written by the creator of Quantum GIS.
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IT People should just say no to Clueless Reporters....
After weeks of stupid stories and FUD about Android fragmentation and it's being unmanageable in the corporate world the folks at linuxinstall.net respond. If you think Android is fragmented and the worse thing in the world give them a chance to open your eyes and change your mind.
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How to make your own 20th Century Fox and LIONSGATE intro with Blender 2.5 in 5 min
This is an easy tutorial on how to make your own 20th Century Fox and LIONSGATE styled intro using Blender 2.5. It is very easy you just need to donwload the templates blender and follow the instructions, it shouldn't take more than 5-10 minutes to edit it.
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The Architecture of Open Source Applications
In new free book the authors of twenty-five open source applications explain how their software is structured, and why. What are each program's major components? How do they interact? And what did their builders learn during their development? In answering these questions, the contributors to this book provide unique insights into how they think.
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25 things you can do with VLC!
VLC is beyond doubts the most popular open source, cross-platform media player and multi-media framework written by VideoLAN projects. VLC player is small in size,just about 17 Mb and immensely powerful! In this post we will explore the player and list 20+ things you can do with VLC player.
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XBMC 10.1 is released ! PPA Ubuntu and LinuxMint
XBMC 10.1 is released, The main focus of this release is to address a bug that could cause XBMC to freeze when updating a skin. To increase stability, it is adviced to update to this new release.
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10 Ultimate commands to generate randoms passwords on your terminal
One of the things I love in Linux is that we can do a simple thing 100 different ways in it, like creating random passwords..
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LibreOffice VS Openoffice
When a group of German coders at OpenOffice (belonging to database major, Oracle) finally forked away on Sept28th 2010 there was much for everybody to talk about while Oracle OpenOffice maintained dignified silence.
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CMU Sphinx- An Open Source Toolkit For Speech Recognition | Linux
CMU Sphinx is one of the most popular speech recognition applications for Linux and it can correctly capture words. it also gives the developers the ability to build speech systems, interact with voice and build something unique and useful.
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Miro 3.5.1 rc2 is released ! Download, Play videos and Internet TV in HD
Miro 3.5.1 RC2 is released ! This is a bug-fix release and has improvements to conversions, torrent downloading, and resolves some playback issues.miro-logo
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0 A.D. - An awesome war/economy strategy game for Linux | PPA Ubuntu
0 A.D. (pronounced "zero ey-dee") is a free, open-source, cross-platform real-time strategy (RTS) game of ancient warfare. In short, it is a historically-based war/economy game that allows players to relive or rewrite the history of Western civilizations, focusing on the years between 500 B.C. and 500 A.D.
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Gish Goes Free Source !
After the huge success of the Humble Indie Bundle, and the raise of over 1 Million Dollars in donations – the games in this “project” are “freeing their sources”.
After Lugaru and Penumbra Overture freed their sources, Gish is now following their example.
The source is under GPL and can be downloaded from here.
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8 Kingdoms: 3D Medieval-Fantasy TBS
8 Kingdoms is an open source 3D Turn-Based Strategy game available for Linux and Windows. It uses medieval buildings and units, such as cavalry, foot soldiers, and castles. It has both singleplayer and multiplayer.
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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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Tiny Core- A 10 MB Tiny Linux Desktop
Tiny Core Linux is a very small (10 MB) minimal Linux GUI Desktop. It is based on Linux 2.6 kernel, Busybox, Tiny X, and Fltk. The core runs entirely in ram and boots very quickly . Also offered is Micro Core a 6 MB image that is the console based engine of Tiny Core.
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