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Breaking: Slovakia Chooses ODF and Other Open Standards
06/05/2008 
The intra-governmental aspect of this may spur the network effect. Slovakia has already shown it was fond of ODF some time in the past. ... 
Phoronix Releases Linux-Based Testing Platform
06/05/2008
Phoronix Media today released version 1.0 of the Phoronix Test Suite (codenamed "Trondheim"), an extensible open-source platform for conducting Linux- ...
Phoronix Test Suite 1.0.0
06/05/2008
You have likely already read the Phoronix Test Suite 1.0 press release, but today -- on the fourth anniversary of Phoronix -- we have reached the vers ...
Linux 2.6.26-rc5 Kernel Released
06/05/2008
Just like Linux 2.6.26-rc4, today's release of the 2.6.26-rc5 kernel is another update with a variety of small fixes. There isn't anything major to ta ...
Tutorial: Record Your Desktop With recordMyDesktop
06/05/2008
A picture is worth a thousand words, especially when you're teaching someone how to do something on a computer, and recordMyDesktop is a great little ...
Installing/Configuring/Caching Django on your Linux server
06/05/2008
In today's world, web development is all about turnaround. Businesses want to maximize production outcome while minimizing development and production ...
Phoronix Releases Linux-Based Testing Platform
06/05/2008
Phoronix Media today released version 1.0 of the Phoronix Test Suite (codenamed"Trondheim"), an extensible open-source platform for conducting Linux-b ...
xmldiff patches XML files by sending just the changes
06/05/2008
The GNU diff and patch utilities let you compare files to generate a patch that describes the changes between files. You can then apply the patch file ...
Installing Songbird Media Player On Ubuntu 8.04
06/05/2008
This document describes how to set up Songbird 0.5 on Ubuntu 8.04. Taken from the Songbird page:"Songbird is a desktop media player mashed-up with the ...
How Linux saved my life
06/05/2008
Have you ever been in a situation where you realised the frailty of your own existence? It happened to me. I sat thinking this is the end of the line ...
Enumerating Files In The Linux or Unix Shell - More Improvements
06/05/2008
Improvements, made by the Linux user community, to the shell one-liner designed to enumerate all files, and their types, within any Linux or Unix dire ...
The T-Shirt History of Mozilla
06/05/2008
As anyone who's spent much time around the Mozilla community knows, t-shirts are an incredibly important part of our culture. So, when Mary showed me ...
Google Gadgets for Linux appears
06/05/2008
Google Desktop has been available for some time now on Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. However, Google Gadgets--mini-applications that can be placed ...
42 More of the Best Free Linux Games
06/05/2008
In response to our request for users' thoughts on their favorite Linux games, we received, as anticipated, a flood of emails. Hundreds of games were r ...
Phoronix Turns Four-Years Old
06/05/2008
It was on June 5, 2004 that Phoronix.com was started. Now 1,100+ articles and 1,400+ news postings later, Phoronix is now four years old! Today's date ...
VIA Launches Mini-ITX 2.0 Form Factor
06/05/2008
If VIA didn't already have enough things going for it this week at Computex with the OpenBook, Nano Processor Family, and Chrome 440 GTX, they have ju ...
A Tale of Two Experiences
06/05/2008
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. They say never to begin a novel talking about the weather. I guess nobody told Dickens, but I dig ...
10 organizations of interest to FOSS developers
06/05/2008
Over the years, I came to appreciate a number of organizations that although not directly linked to free software and open source are of interest for ...
Hands on with the Ubuntu Netbook Remix
06/05/2008
Canonical, the company behind the highly popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, unveiled its Ubuntu Netbook Remix yesterday at the Computex show in Taiwan ...
Porting Applications to Linux for System z
06/05/2008
Server consolidation based on Linux for System z offers advantages, but moving existing applications requires some specialized knowledge. In this arti ...
Canonical brings forth remixed version of Ubuntu for 'Netbooks' called... Remix
06/05/2008
Want a version of Linux for your Intel Atom powered 'NetBook' aka Asus Eee PC type subnotebook? Canonical hopes that Ubuntu Remix will fit the bil ...
Fedora 8 (64-bit) as a flexible target for Xen 3.2.1 Dom0 install
06/05/2008
Procedure described bellow installs packages mercurial, dev86, python-virtinst, virt-viewer. Virt-install as well as pygrub and hvmloader appear to be ...
Taking note of Basket
06/05/2008
Note-taking applications are far from scarce on GNU/Linux desktops. If your needs are simple, you can use KNotes in KDE or Sticky Notes in GNOME. If y ...
One-Time Contributers
06/05/2008
Tony Luckoffered some statistics focused on the frequency of developers that only contribute to the Linux kernel one time,"I skimmed through looking f ...
Composer, a potential HTML based word processor
06/05/2008
In an in depth look at Composer, Maurcie Cepeda at Freesoftware Magazine discusses the features of Composer that make it an ideal tool for the job as ...
Ubuntu fix: Login screen too big, regular screen just right
06/05/2008
I've had this problem on one machine ever since I installed Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. It's a triple boot, with Ubuntu 6.06 LTS on one of the other partitions, ...
23% of smartphone market to be Linux-powered by 2013
06/05/2008
The open-source Linux operating system is seeing major growth in the mobile and embedded space, especially in the smartphone market. Handset makers an ...
Acer bets big on Linux
06/05/2008
Acer has stated that it will be pushing Linux aggressively on its laptops and netbooks. The company is already heavily promoting Linux for its low cos ...
Transform images into videos with images2mpg
06/05/2008
images2mpg, a simple utility that's part of the KDE Image Plugin Interface (KIPI), lets you create an MPEG file from image files. Relying on a handful ...
GNOME 2.23.3 Released
06/05/2008
For those not interested by today's KDE 4.0.5 release, perhaps you're interested in trying out the latest development version of GNOME. GNOME 2.23.3 h ...
Thunderbird drops one on my head
06/05/2008
I hate to be down on Thunderbird, which I use as my default mail client in Windows XP. But today I turn on the box, start Thunderbird, and things don' ...
Your Second Economic Stimulus Check is On Its Way
06/05/2008
With Obama's winning of the Democratic presidential nomination, all indications are that freedom is coming. It's coming in the form of another economi ...
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