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Best Video Players for Linux

Gadgets & Tech – A Great list of cool video media players for Linux

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Bender Forms Group to Promote OLPC's Sugar UI

Gadgets & Tech – Former One Laptop Per Child President of software and content Walter Bender has launched Sugar Labs, an organization that will promote the development of the open-source user interface originally developed for the…

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How I dumped Windows for Linux - Day 2

Gadgets & Tech – Having got the majority of my hardware to work successfully in Ubuntu Linux in my previous post, it was time to find out how the OS faired with some everyday productivity tasks. Would I miss using Windows? I'd argue…

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Give Me 3 Synths, Part 2

Gadgets & Tech – Minicomputer is an excellent synth with some great possibilities. While its author emphasizes its effectiveness in hardcore sound styles I found it to be an excellent straightforward subtractive synth with some…

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KVM Benchmarks

Gadgets & Tech – With these few single threaded tests, the results were very close between Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu 8.04 running within a virtualized environment powered by KVM.

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Tanczos wants a new window on the world

Gadgets & Tech – "When I spoke about open source software in Parliament, there were blank faces all round," he said.

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Twenty Four Hours with Mint 5.0 Beta

Gadgets & Tech – This is a Beta? Wow.... These days the Distro I am always watching and waiting for a new release of, more than any other, is Mint. I have expressed that preference here quite a bit since I discovered Mint back in…

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Flash Player 10 [Beta] coming with Ubuntu support

Gadgets & Tech – The Flash Player 10 beta features a brand-new Just In Time (JIT) engine to load pixel bite code into the Flash Player engine. Flash Player 10 will also extend support for Linux to Ubuntu versions 7 and 8, going…

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Microsoft's Quiet War Against GNU/Linux on Motherboards

Gadgets & Tech – To sum up, here we have another case study exemplifying total disregard, market abuse, distortion of stories and a strategic fight against Linux, which escapes the media's attention.

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Building a glossier front end for MythTV

Gadgets & Tech – Josh Stewart loves MythTV -- so much so that he is building his own front-end app for it as a drop-in replacement for MythTV's default. The replacement is called Gloss, and although it isn't ready for prime time…

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Dreamy Dreamlinux

Gadgets & Tech – Now that I've tried out this distro, when a non Linux user asks me what distribution I recommend they try, I think I'll start suggesting Dreamlinux. It is extremely simple, it covers a broad ranges of requirements,…

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Little thin client runs Linux

Gadgets & Tech – The Italian firm CompuMaster has introduced a compact thin client that runs Linux. The "Praim Ino" can be mounted on the back of a monitor, draws just six Watts, and comes with a variety of client software, the…

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Exceptional Linux programs for Kids

Gadgets & Tech – There's nothing worse than hearing how an entire school district is switching operating systems from Mac to Windows (or vice versa) because that's what the "business" world relies on or some other blather. The costs…

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'$100 laptop' embraces Windows XP

Gadgets & Tech – Microsoft has joined forces with the developers of the "$100 laptop" to make Windows available on the machines.

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Verizon Wireless Plans Shift to Linux Phones

Gadgets & Tech – Verizon Wireless is backing a free operating system that competes with programs from Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. and expects it to become the "preferred" software on its network.

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Ark Linux 2008.1 released

Gadgets & Tech – The Ark Linux team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Ark Linux 2008.1, a new version of its easy-to-use, easy-to-learn operating system.

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iTWire - Microsoft Windows Mobile to face strong LiMo challenge

Gadgets & Tech – Microsoft is expecting that 40 percent of smartphones sold in 2012 will be based on its Windows Mobile operating system. No doubt it won't be resting on its laurels if it gets there, but open source-based platforms,…

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iTWire - Asus multi-touch mouse gives you room to zoom

Gadgets & Tech – I've just been having a play with the new Asus Eee PC 900 series, loaded up with Linux and 20 glorious gigabytes of space, that much nicer screen, a rather nifty multi-touch trackpad and that same ol' keyboard.…

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Linux offers one alternative to Microsoft's Windows

Gadgets & Tech – Personally I recommend Ubuntu as a great alternative to Windows, and it is easy even for a beginner to learn. It also has the best support community of any operating system around.

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Linux: Who got it right, who got it very wrong?

Gadgets & Tech – Open-source software, once derided as the unsupportable and unreliable work of hobbyists, has secured itself a place at the table of many a large enterprise, although in ways that were different than many expected…

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Linux rides pillion on Mumbai city buses

Gadgets & Tech – This triangle of devices in the bus uses ARM9 processors and runs embedded Linux using kernel 2.6. Having these Linux-embedded devices, says Satish Goriani, consultant to the technology provider Kaizen, drastically…

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IBM launches Cell blades [with GNU/Linux] for HPC

Gadgets & Tech – The Bladecenter QS22 systems will run Red Hat Enterprise Linux and include IBM's open sauce Eclipse development environment. IBM claims its new QS22 systems can be integrated with x86 based servers in customers'…

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iTWire - From newb to 100 with Ubuntu Linux 8.04

Gadgets & Tech – Your friends have been telling you to try out Ubuntu; forget the Microsoft proprietary operating system and liberate your computer. Yet, it's not such smooth sailing. Sure, you can download the Ubuntu CD, or get…

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Do You Need A Lot Of Bandwidth?

Gadgets & Tech – Bandwidth measures the volume of data transmitted over an internet connection. You need to know how much bandwidth you will need before choosing a hosting plan.

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