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Love it or hate it, we all know Flash, but Microsoft’s equivalent, Silverlight, is a bit less well known. With Silverlight you can stream video and create animations, in fact you can even use it to create Windows sidebar widgets. However, in what may come as a bit of a shock, Microsoft Silverlight doesn’t play nice with Linux. I know, I know, it’s hard to believe, but true. To remedy this, the folks at the Mono project have created Moonlight – an open source implementation of Silverlight. If you find yourself wanting to access a Silverlight-only broadcast or game, but not wanting to install a second operating system for the privilege, we’ve got you covered.

“That as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.” — Benjamin Franklin

A task manager is software which enables users to compile a list of tasks to be completed. This list is also known as a to-do list or things-to-do.

I just spent several days testing, fixing bugs, and adding features to Linux Scanner Server v1.2 Beta1. LSS is an easy way to share a non-networkable scanner through a web server. While the interface doesn't allow cropping like Xsane or Simple Scan it does support multiple file outputs, printing, and OCR through Tesseract. Development has stalled with the beta and I encountered some bugs when testing it on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx). Instead of complaining about it, I fixed them.

The community of OpenOffice has highly criticated Oracle work, announcing a new name, a new project and a new foundation that will guide the project LibreOffice. The move underlines the tensions between open-source community and Oracle. Openoffice.org (originally supported by Sun Microsystems) has grown to become a real alternative to Microsoft's Office suite. OpenOffice is a real alternative to Microsoft Office, but the acquisition of Sun by Oracle has challenged the open source projects like MySQL and OpenOffice.

The media has been abuzz with OpenOffice being forked into LibreOffice by The Document Foundation in past few days. The Document Foundation, has already released a beta version of Libre Office that can be installed on Ubuntu.Please note that LibreOffice is still a beta version and not meant for production purposes.

Debian's "testing" distribution is where Debian developers prepare the next stable distribution. While this is still its main purpose, many users have adopted this version of Debian because it offers them a good trade-off between stability and freshness. But there are downsides to using the testing distribution, so the "Constantly Usable Testing" (CUT) project aims to reduce or eliminate those downsides.

In America people are always buying things they don't really need. That fifteenth pair of shoes, a third car, a second house... Well you get the idea. I guess it should really be no surprise then that people in America are also over paying for computer hardware and software they do not need, nor will they ever come close to fully utilizing.

Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat release candidate is here and it's packed with a slew of new features. The amount of changes happening with Ubuntu lately is quite overwhelming. Here's a quick look through the improvements in the new Ubuntu 10.10 release candidate.

At the Ubuntu Developer Summit later this month in Orlando for the Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" release, it looks like performance testing may finally be discussed at length by Canonical and the Ubuntu developers.

On linux there are some simple commands that allow you to see what the OS is seeing (that does not always correspond with the hardware in the machine). Today we will see some of these useful commands that allow you to check the proper recognition of all our devices. lspci – lsusb – lshw lspci lspci is a utility for displaying information about PCI buses in the system and devices connected to them. By default, it shows a brief list of devices. Use the options described below to request either a more verbose output or output intended for parsing by other programs.

Nautilus Elementary is probably the best thing happened to Gnome's very own file browser in a long time. I gave it a go in the just released Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" RC and I was quite taken aback by the amount of improvements with the new Nautilus Elementary.

Firefox 4 is almost ready for prime time! It offers lots of new features and is currently in beta. The following is an easy way to install the latest stable beta version of Firefox on any Linux distribution.

In my previous Dropbox article, I highlighted that Dropbox had released apps for the Android, iOS and Blackberry platforms. These enabled Dropbox users to access their data while on the move. However, the apps, especially the Android one, was very much in its infancy and there were a lot of basic functions that it lacked. Dropbox has recently updated its Android app and I thought it was a good time to review the app.

Google has expanded Android Market paid application support for developers to 29 countries, and boosted to 32 the number of countries where consumers can buy apps for their phones. The search giant has also replaced its Nexus One web store with Google Phone Gallery, a site where users may compare three Android handsets at a time.

What Linux Community needs, and what needs to avoid to be bigger, why the problems the different projects have with each others is counterproductive. Does Linux community really need a "head"?. What do you think?

If you love your Apple iPad but wish you could run your favorite 'nix applications on it, StarNet Communications has an app for that. StarNet has built an app called iLIVEx. It turns the iPad into an X terminal that runs Linux and Unix apps hosted on remote servers. The app was released on Thursday. Even better, iLIVEx users get a free account to run StarNet's virtualized Linux desktop on their Windows and Macs (and Linux) PCs, too. Could be a cheap and easy way of spreading Linux joy to those still under the yolk of a PC platform dictatorship.

We formally announce Ubuntu 10.10 Release Candidate. Code-named 'Maverick Meerkat', 10.10 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open-source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The release includes new Ubuntu font family, the just-released GNOME 2.32, Shotwell as the default photo manager, the brand-new Unity interface for the netbook edition, KDE 4.5.1 in Kubuntu, Linux kernel 2.6.35, and many other new features. Ubuntu10.10 RC, Kubuntu 10.10 RC

Microsoft has announced a lawsuit against Motorola, alleging that several of the mobile company's Android devices infringe on nine of its patents. The software giant is suing in US District Court in Washington, and is also bringing a complaint before the International Trade Commission (ITC).

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results (Albert Einstein). Boobytrapped websites don't capture readers, they chase them away. So why do advertisers get increasingly obnoxious? Does obnoxiousness work?