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Firebird 2.1.3 packages for Ubuntu and Debian are ready

Firebird 2.1.3 is a recommended update, packages for ubuntu , karmic ,intrepid , jaunty and hardy are ready and uploaded

Use your mobile as remote for linux media players the easy way

Remuco is a duplex remote control system for Linux media players and mobile devices equipped with Bluetooth or WiFi. To put it simple you could actually use your mobile phone with bluetooth or Wifi as a remote control for linux media players like Amarok, Banshee, Totem, VLC and more.

Real-Time Earth Wallpaper

We already wrote about a wallpaper application for Linux which displays the current weather, moon phases and time of day based on your current location, in real time. This time, I'm going to tell you about a script created by Claudio Novais @ Ubuntued which displays a picture of the Earth, in real time. The script needs a permanent internet connections and uses just ~400kb of memory so don't worry about it eating system resources. Also, please note the the script tries to update every hour but if it fails, it tries to get the image from 5 to 5 seconds, for 5 minutes and if it still fails, it tries again in an hour. That's especially useful for when running the script at system start-up, because it takes some time until the internet connection is set up, or for when the internet connection goes down, etc.

Airlink 101 AWLL3028 $10 USB WiFi adapter works automatically with Ubuntu 8.04

If you've been using operating systems that are not Windows (but come to think of it, I've had plenty of networking problems in Windows as well), you know that getting both wired and WiFi network adapters to work in Linux, the BSDs and even Mac OS X is a crapshoot at best and prelude to weeks of often-futile hackery at worst. The smart thing to do is figure out what works the easiest and best BEFORE you buy anything to add to your computers, especially when it comes to WiFi adapters.

10 of the Best Free Linux Web Browsers

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Sep 20, 2009 5:18 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews, Roundups
A web browser is the quintessential desktop application. Everyone needs one, and there is not a desktop Linux distribution around that does not make a web browser available.

New GTK2 And Metacity Themes

In my spare time I like to do graphics work. During my GNU/Linux journey I have designed themes for XMMS, gKRELLm, icons, splash screens, GNOME Display Manager, Metacity, GTK2, fluxbox, openbox, desktop wallpapers, logo's, PmWiki, and HTML templates. Nothing makes a person more proud than having their artwork featured by a major open-source project.

Distribution Variation

  • Eleven is Louder; By Bradford White (Posted by olefowdie on Sep 20, 2009 3:23 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Recently, I stumbled upon a new Linux distribution aimed at the x86, general use, desktop microcomputer. Naturally, I had a bit of an urge to groan, moan, and otherwise throw a temper tantrum. The predisposition to loathe new Linux distributions is not based in a dislike of Linux distribution plurality, but more of a dislike for redundancy.

Community Members Invited To Qt Developer Days 2009

The last few years has seen the company formerly known as Trolltech open their arms to one of the largest parts of their supporting community, KDE, in a new way: By offering a few members of the KDE community free admittance to the Qt Developer Days conference. This year is no different, and they have invited a number of people to attend this year's conferences. Yes, that's plural: There are two conferences. One from the 12th to 14th of October in Munich, Germany and one from the 2nd to the 4th of November in San Francisco, USA.

This week at LWN: The Grumpy Editor's hugin experience

The free software community has produced a wealth of tools for the manipulation of image data. For simple changes, such as cropping, resizing, or basic contrast tweaking, any of a number of programs can be used. More complex changes will require falling back to tools like the GIMP, krita, or cinepaint. Anybody who has tried to join together two or more independent images in those tools will have discovered, however, that certain manipulations fall into a class of their own. For that kind of work, hugin would appear to be the only choice. Your editor has long intended to play with hugin; the threat of having some real work to do finally provided the necessary motivation.

Linux and plethorization

Why is it that Linux distros divide and multiply? And do we have a better name for how and why that's done than, say, "forking"? That question goes through my mind when I look at the ever-changing Top 100 list at DistroWatch, and when I look, for example, at the many children of Debian, including grandchildren through Ubuntu.

Time for a New Puppy: Puppy Linux 4.3

  • Productivity Sauce; By Dmitri Popov (Posted by dmpop on Sep 19, 2009 5:14 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Mac OS X Snow Leopard? Windows 7? Forget it. The coolest OS release of the year is Puppy Linux 4.3.

Google Chrome Dev Channel Boosts Mac and Linux Versions

Yesterday afternoon, the Google Chrome team released another update with performance gains for platforms, but Mac and Linux users will see the greatest boosts and new, useful functions. Every OS version received some tweaking, including improved New Tab load times and changes to how Chrome handles extensions.

Happy Software Freedom Day!

Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). The goal is to educate the people around the world about the benefits of using FOSS in education, in government, at home and everywhere else. So wear your favorite FOSS t-shirts, burn a couple of disks of your favorite distro to give away and tell the world how FOSS is the wave of the future!

Feminism's dirty little secret

I consider myself to be a FOSS proponent and there is only one thing that counts to me: great code. I don't care whether you are black or white, atheist or Christian, male or female. I don't check the "About" boxes before I give my judgment. Great code is just great code. It's what FOSS is all about: meritocracy. Because I'm convinced that is the real driving force of FOSS, not "sexism" as some are trying to make us believe.

Ubuntu Privacy Remix: UPR 9.04r2 released

Announced by UPR team the release of the second stable release of Ubuntu Privacy Remix 9.04. All software packages including the kernel were updated to their newest version to close security holes and fix bugs.

Top 12 Linux & FLOSS advertisements & videos

Surfing the net all this time on topics related to GNU/Linux, Free and Open Source Software, I came across various interesting, imaginative and some times funny advertisements and videos. Here are the top 12, in random order.

How to retain changes in Backtrack 4 installed on USB

In this article we will describe how we can create a bootable Backtrack 4 USB Drive that will save all the changes we make on the USB itself. In this scenario we will use 2 USB Drives. One USB drive of 1GB and the 2GB USB drive which will hold our changes.

OpenSUSE Conf 2009: OpenSUSE 11.2 with Microblogging, But Not WebYaST

On the outskirts of the OpenSUSE Conference, core developers revealed details on the new openSUSE version 11.2. Although it will have Kernel 2.6.31, browser users will have to wait a bit longer for YaST.

No Support?

I recently mentioned Linux in a conversation that started with "I'm tired of the problems my computer has with Windows" and was told that Linux doesn't have any support. Really? Then the dozens of websites, mailing lists, news feeds and IRC channels that I use must be figments of my imagination.

FCC To Introduce Net Neutrality Rule

Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, plans to propose a new so-called net neutrality rule Monday that could prevent telecommunications, cable and wireless companies from blocking Internet applications, according to sources at the agency. Genachowski will discuss the rules Monday during a keynote speech at The Brookings Institute. He isn't expected to drill into many details, but the proposal will specifically be for an additional guideline on how operators like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast can control what goes on their networks. That additional guideline would prevent the operators from discriminating, or act as gatekeepers, of Web content and services.

[Not really FOSS related but certainly of interest to our readers. - Scott]

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