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Wine 1.3.2 has been Released

5 hours 9 min ago
Wine-Reviews: "Whats new in this release: * Update of the Gecko engine, now including a 64-bit version. * New implementation of console support on Unix terminals."


Linuxables: Compiz window switcher

Tue, 09/07/2010 - 23:02
Linux.com: "Thanks to Compiz you have better, slicker, and more efficient ways to switch from one application to another. Take a look at Compiz Switchers, and you'll never want to go back to the boring old panel buttons!"


Alien - Use Any Package On Any Distribution

Tue, 09/07/2010 - 21:32
Linux Journal: "Sometimes, a utility or an application that you want to install is impossible to find in the format of your distribution. Alien is a utility that can convert one package type into another."


NVIDIA Puts Out A Major Beta Linux Driver Update

Tue, 09/07/2010 - 20:02
Phoronix: "...for those wishing to live on the bleeding edge of NVIDIA's proprietary Linux driver development, the first beta release in the 260.xx series is now available for testing."


The Value of Clear Code is Clear

Tue, 09/07/2010 - 19:05
Computerworld UK: "This might sound far from enterprise open source, but the way the Climate Code Foundation is proceeding shows the connection:"


Google Chrome 6.0.472.53

Tue, 09/07/2010 - 18:35
Software Latest Releases: "Since its launch in 2008 by Google, Chrome has been making some dent in the market for Internet browsers. With its rapid development and a focus on practicality and lightness of the user experience, Chrome is fast increasing its share of users."


Python4Kids New Tutorial: Trivial Lists

Tue, 09/07/2010 - 18:05
Python4Kids: "Having gone through some arduous work on the previous tutorial, this one will be a little gentler. The task we've set ourselves this time is to write another game, a trivia game."


Android/Linux kernel fight continues

Tue, 09/07/2010 - 17:35
Cyber Cynic: "You could argue that Google's Android, so popular on smartphones now, is the most popular Linux of all right now. There's only one little problem with that: Android has continued to be apart from the Linux mainstream."


Ubuntu 10.10 beta review

Tue, 09/07/2010 - 17:05
Linux User and Developer: "By default, Ubuntu wants to provide just one massive root (/) partition without separate home partitions. This is a mistake, as anyone who's updated or recovered a Linux system should know."


Bricscad� V10 for Linux released

Tue, 09/07/2010 - 16:35
Brycsis: "Bricsys is the first to release a .dwg based CAD software for Linux users. Bricsys NV, the developer of Bricscad, announced today that Bricscad V10 for Linux is now available "


HeliOS Store Opens to Fund The HeliOS Project

Tue, 09/07/2010 - 16:05
Blog of Helios: "Instead of just posting our current needs, we've decided to open a store of sorts to raise the money we need. We have some cool and useful stuff and more will be added in the next two weeks."


Blender 3D 2.9: Working with Textures

Tue, 09/07/2010 - 15:35
Packt: "In this article by Allan Brito, author of Blender 3D 2.9: Architecture, Buildings, and Scenery, we will take the realism of our scenes to a higher level using textures. With textures, the "magic" really happens!"


SparkleShare � an open source alternative to Dropbox hits beta for Linux

Tue, 09/07/2010 - 15:05
Technott: "But according to developers of Sparkleshare, Dropbox has downsides as well: you can't host your own server; it's not open source and has some freaky things in its license agreement"


Happy 3rd Birthday To AMD's Open-Source Strategy

Tue, 09/07/2010 - 14:35
Phoronix: "Yep, it's only been three years since AMD became public with pushing out NDA-free GPU documentation and register specifications, open-source code for the xf86-video-ati and Mesa drivers, and employed a small set of developers to contribute towards their open-source Linux stack."


P2P Hopping Protocol

Tue, 09/07/2010 - 14:05
Intel Software Network: "There are plenty of interesting application, notably you can do lots of outside-in scenarios with you access your home computers from a cellphone anywhere in the world"


4 Linux and BSD Firewall/Router Projects

Tue, 09/07/2010 - 13:35
Linux Planet: "Both Linux and FreeBSD are built on strong networking stacks, and both make first-rate firewalls and routers. Many commercial products are based on these. Eric Geier rounds up four firewall/router projects for our perusal."


Driver dilemma in KDE workspaces 4.5

Tue, 09/07/2010 - 13:05
Martin's Blog: "KDE is currently blamed for errors in external components: the graphic drivers. I am lately reading quite some crap (e.g. on it news today) that we KWin devs knew about problems in the drivers and shipped 4.5 nevertheless with changes enabled which trigger the driver bugs. That is of course not true."


More GPL enforcement work again.. and a very surreal but important case

Tue, 09/07/2010 - 12:35
Harald Welte's blog: "In recent days and weeks, I'm doing a bit more work on the gpl-violations.org project than during the last months and years. I wouldn't say that I'm happy about that, but well, somebody has to do it :/"


Zoom Blur Effect in GIMP

Tue, 09/07/2010 - 12:05
Scott Photographics: "If you don't have a zoom lens or you'd like to manipulate a certain image in this style then this tutorial for GIMP should help you achieve a similar effect!"


Could Oracle fracture open source community?

Tue, 09/07/2010 - 11:35
ZDNet: "An Oracle was a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinion. How can that particular definition be applied to Oracle the company?"