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The Linux Foundation Store: Linux gets silly
The Linux desktop is already here
It's 2010 and some people still think the Linux desktop is a non-starter. Please. Buy a clue; you're all Linux desktop users now.
Steam Client and Source Games Porting to OSX
So the devil called me this afternoon and said they where having a snowstorm in hell.In other news Valve announced that their revolutionary "content delivery service" known as "Steam" is being ported to OSX and will be available as early as April 2010. No really its true, straight from the horse's mouth. In addition the actual client and "Steam-works" being brought to Apple's operating system Valve also plans to port all of the Source Engine games, these include:
- Half Life 2 Series
Linux Video Editing with Openshot
In an earlier post I spoke of different pieces of software I had been using to rip my DVDs to media files, never content to just leave things as they are I took to piecing bits and chunks of various episode clips together. I tried a few different Linux video editors including Kino (a KDE staple), PiTiVi (to be included by default in Ubuntu 10.04), and Cinelerra.
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Elliot Associates' worrisome Novell plans
Could IBM or even Microsoft, come to Novell Linux's rescue?
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Linux is doing just fine on servers
Sure, IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker shows Windows beating Linux handily. But that's not the whole story.
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Minting the Girlfriend
A few weeks back the girl I have been dating for awhile now had idly made a complaint about her laptop being poky at certain tasks. I'd used the thing once or twice to check my email and recalled it was running Vista - no surprise there. I like this girl a lot and figured it was time to take that next step in our relationship:I offered to put Linux on her laptop.
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The Year of the Tablet Computer
There is no denying the fact that we have become a touch-centric society in regards to our technology. Thanks to the "iPhone standard" every new handheld device better sport at least some form of touch screen if it expects to compete with the competition. Where is our technology headed though? With the idea of "bigger is better" in mind: if a 3.5~ inch touch screen is good a larger screen must better right?
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Is Windows 7 really a memory hog?
Metrics or not, Windows 7 does just fine by memory on my systems.
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What happens to Sun's open-source software now?
Oracle owns Sun, so what happens with MySQL, OpenSolaris, and all the rest of Sun's rich open-source software now?
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Mobile Linux Unification
Intel and Nokia are merging their mobile Linux distributions while Adobe is bringing Flash to Google Android.
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The five most popular corporate open-source programs
Anything the iPad can do, Linux can do better.
Well, the Apple iPad has finally been launched, and it looks grand. But, really what can it do that a Linux-powered tablet can't do for less?
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HOWTO: Install Multiple Wine Versions on One System
Wine Technology advances at a rapid rate, in the last month we have seen two updates to Wine (1.1.33 & 1.1.34).
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Never reboot again with Ksplice
How would you like to never reboot again? That's what ksplice promises for Linux users.
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Chrome 4: King of the Web browser hill?
The latest Chrome Web browser is faster than ever, but what really matters is its new and improved feature set.
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Record-setting Linux
The latest record for the value of pi, all 2.7-trillion digits of it, was set by a software engineer working with a home PC running Red Hat Fedora Linux.
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Make the right browser update: Firefox 3.6
Today, Microsoft is issuing an emergency patch for Internet Explorer and Mozilla is releasing the latest version of Firefox. Make the right browser upgrade: Go Firefox.
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Canonical picks open-source leader for COO
Matt Asay, well-known open-source leader and Alfresco VP, has moved over to Canonical, Ubuntu's parent company.
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Linux upgrades the easy way
When you upgrade Windows, you have to jump through endless hoops. With Linux, you just download and go.
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