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People like stuff that is free. People like lists of things. Today I am going to put these two things together with the following list of my favourite FOSS (free open source software) applications.

I must admit, I'm a command line geek. Whenever I have the chance, regardless of desktop environment or distribution, I open a terminal and start fiddling something. This does not mean everyone must be like me, of course. If you're the person who is mouse and GUI-oriented, no problems. However, there are situations when all you have at your disposal for a while is the command line. One of those situations might be an upgrade of your kernel/graphics drivers that leave you high and dry until the bug is reported and the developers look at the issue. You have to send a very important e-mail or you have to check the evolution of prices of your favorite laptop. All the essential desktop tasks (with some exceptions, though) that you do on a GUI-enabled machine can be done on a CLI-only machine as well, so if you're interested...

Razor-qt is a new desktop environment based on the QT toolkit. I installed it from the PPA and gave it a quick go. It’s early days for the project, but it might eventually become a refuge for lovers of KDE 3 in the same way that Xfce has become popular with people who want to recreate the Gnome 2.x experience.

Learn how to easily create beautiful and detailed photomosaics in Linux using the command line tool metapixel. With plenty of command line options, you can build a photomosaic precisely the way you want it. Installation instructions for Ubuntu and openSUSE are included, as well as a large image collection to build the photomosaic with. If you are more comfortable with a GUI, a link to one is also available.

This piece did not set out to re-define the term, "computer bulletin board," but that is the easiest way to describe Wboard, a window that provides a background for text notes and allows you to manage and save groups of notes easily.

For why does weatherman hate penguins? Something in the AIR Linux users face increased inconvenience getting a weather forecast from March onwards when the Met Office will withdraw its web-based weather gadgets and replace them with desktop widgets – for Windows and Mac only.…

I have been a long time Ubuntu user, been using it since 2006. I loved it and have been installing it on user's PC until version 11.04 came out with Unity. Before you get a wrong impression let me make it clear that I love to try new things as long as they don't come in between me and my work. I started using Unity since its alpha days and am currently running Ubuntu 12.04 with HUD and KDE 4.8. The reason is simple -- I am curious and love trying new things. I am also running openSUSE with Gnome 3 to stay updated with the latest development.

ownCloud is a free software alternative to some proprietary web services that includes music streaming, file management which supports sharing, calendar, contacts and more.

After delivering benchmarks last week that were comparing the Intel Sandy Bridge performance of Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" vs. Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" when it came to the Sandy Bridge OpenGL graphics performance, here's a comparative look at the performance of Ubuntu 11.10 against Mac OS X 10.7.2 from the Intel Sandy Bridge-based Mac.

Jonathan Thomas, the developer behind the famous Linux video editor, announced earlier today the immediate availability for download of the OpenShot 1.4.1 application.

The PS3 Media Server developers announced yesterday, January 29th, the immediate availability for download of the PS3 Media Server 1.50.1 application for Linux, Mac OS and Windows platforms.

Frugalware Linux 1.6 RC2 [Release Candidate 2] has been released prior to the stable version Frugalware 1.6. It is originated in Hungary and its design is look like Slackware. And it uses tha Pacman management system which is currently used by Arch Linux. The main point is that Frugalware is available on various desktop manager like GNOME, KDE, LXDE, Xfce, FluxBox, BlackBox, OpenBox, WMaker, IceWM.

The Debian project proudly announced a couple of days ago, January 28th, the fourth maintenance release of the stable Debian 6.0 operating system.

“That’s right, Vicky. Simple as that. So can you guys take it from here?” “Sure thing, Frank. No problem, and great work!”

Have you ever installed any GNU/Linux distribution? Have you ever installed Windows? Have you noticed the difference? I think you know what I am talking about...

OpenRA is a free and open source real time strategy game engine supporting early Westwood games like Command & Conquer (C&C) and Command & Conquer: Red Alert. If you have original Red Alert files, you can use them with OpenRA. But, they are not necessary. Both original C&C: Red Alert and C&C has been recreated as mods and can be downloaded from game menu itself. They are not just clones of the original versions but provide improved and rebalanced gameplay. OpenRA runs very well on Linux netbooks.

Ubuntu team knows how to stay in news. Two months before the release of Ubuntu 12.04, Mark has exploded a bomb which is making everyone talk about Ubuntu. This time its HUD in the spot-light. Both sides, those against the idea of messing up with Ubuntu UI and those who support it are trying to put forth their points in a constructive manner.

OpenShot is a free and open source video editor for Linux operating systems. OpenShot is capable of editing high definitions video formats including HDV and AVCHD. It comes with many video transitions and several audio and video effects. Also you can use OpenShot for adding templates titles and 3D animated titles depends on Blender graphics applications.

Wanna impress your friends with some cool one-liners? Well not those kind of one-liners, I’m talking about the nerdy ones. Well, not exactly nerdy, let’s call them geeky. Anyways, Bash one-liners is an open-source project made for sharing and discovering such nifty Bash tricks that will help you tweak or fix your Linux/Unix/BSD computer. Apart from letting you browse existing scripts, the site also lets you submit your own ideas.

Google's 2011 Code-In, which is a winter program similar to their Summer of Code, ended earlier this month with many contributions to some leading open-source projects.