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APE is an open-source, free lossless audio format, just like FLAC or WAV. APE is also known as Monkey's Audio. To convert it to either Ogg Vorbis or MP3, you will first need to install several packages:

Nano is a popular and user-friendly text editor for console which is mostly used for editing quickly configuration files, sources or various other text files. It does not compete with advanced development environments like Vim or Emacs, but it's fast and easy on resources. Here are five (popular, I hope) tips for customising Nano and changing its default behaviour.

It’s that time of year again–the Red Hat Summit and JBoss World are fast approaching, and with them, Red Hat’s annual awards ceremonies. But first, we need nominations. And for that we appeal to our customers, readers, partners, and friends. That’s you. Nominate that innovative business you worked with, or the admin who always has the right answers. Winners will receive free admission to Red Hat Summit and JBoss World, participation in exclusive events, and the admiration and accolades of their peers.

An update to my previous article My vi first steps I use vi instead of command line editors to do mass replacing of blocks and editing many files in the following way: say I know all files I need to edit in the current directory contain the text foo and the rest of the files don't. I open all files containing foo in vi:

The popular DD-WRT router software project (firmware replacement for consumer-level wireless routers, such as the Linksys WRT series) uses GPL software, but its Web interface has a restrictive proprietary license,and it bundles other questionably-licensed software. Aaron Weiss reports on the accusations and controversy that dog this popular software.

Red Hat is expecting to deliver the final release of Fedora 11 in just less than one month, but today they have offered up a preview build of this next open-source Linux distribution update that is known as Leonidas

A new semi-weekly podcast concentrating on the building, configuration and running of MythTV has begun. Each one hour episode will cover the ins and outs of building and running your own MythTV system. The first episode of the MythTVCast can be downloaded directly: Episode 00

Disclaimer: the MythTVCast has no connection with the MythTV project in any way. The show is produced by end users of MythTV.

The Good There were roughly 30 installers overall. 121 machines got worked on. Roughly 100 of them got a GNU/Linux installed/updated on them. 55 of them were Ubuntus (and such), 21 of them got Debians (no love for RPMs here in Bogotá, guys.... sorry), 12 of them got Mandriva, 4 of them got OpenSuSE, 2 got Fedoras plus a few others. I got to install Kubuntu 9.04 64 on a machine (cause I didn't have Ubuntu 64 at hand), plus another Ubuntu 9.04 32. Unfortunatly I had to leave early cause of family matters. Till the moment I left things were flowing normally. The environment was cool though we were a little crammed.

While Googling for information on encrypting filesystems for something I'm working on, I came across many a good Ubuntu blog — yep, there's lots out there for the Ubuntu user who wants to figure things out. One blog that looked really good, despite an awful name, is I' Been to Ubuntu.

"As with the last Firefox 3.5 (formerly known as Firefox 3.1) beta, there's improvements to the private browsing mode, the performance has increased, pages render faster, pages with JavaScript code run much faster, with the new Tracemonkey engine. And a few major improvements."

Many manufacturers have now joined the Open Handset Alliance to cooperate on developing Android; an operating system originally tailored to mobile phones, with a practical browser and a lot of applications. The obvious next move is to adapt it for netbooks as well. Computerworld.com reports that Skytone, a previously unknown Chinese manufacturer, has just announced an Android netbook with an ARM processor that is to cost around $250.

Vuurmuur 0.8 bèta 1 is released. Vuurmuur (Dutch for Firewall) is a powerful Firewall Manager built on top of the Linux Iptables.

When Oracle announced plans to acquire Sun Microsystems (and by association, MySQL), some folks reacted with concern. Others reacted with delight. But one start-up company — named Continuent — certainly deserved to celebrate.

One of the most popular open source programs (technically Free Software) in the world got a major boost this week. GCC 4.4 adds in lots of new features the biggest of which is the Graphite Framework.

Open Invention Network (OIN) announced that three of the eight patents cited in Microsoft's lawsuit against TomTom have been posted for prior art review by the Linux community. The evidence is being compiled to convince the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that the patents are invalid.

The popular media manager Boxee has been updated for the latest Ubuntu 9.04.

Linux vendor Red Hat is ramping up for its next community Linux release as Fedora 11, codenamed "Leonidas" hits its preview milestone release today -- showing off the future of Linux technologies. "We need to continue to keep our eyes on the prize," Fedora Project Leader Paul Frields said. "To me, that is making sure that Fedora is at the forefront of innovation and making sure we're delivering the future first to home consumers and to business users. We are showing them the technology that they will want to invest in for the future."

Touted as a Cloud OS, vSphere enters the cloud computing fray with a bang.

This is a proprietary article about commercial proprietary software. This is not a commercial ;)

The ProBook offers users a number of new features, including an optional Linux-based operating system pre-installed -- Novell Inc's SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 -- for those seeking an alternative to the dominant Microsoft Corp Windows platform. It is HP's first-ever Linux pre-install on a standard business laptop, the company said. The PC maker does offer some netbooks with Linux. "It's pretty much a natural evolution," said Carol Hess- Nickels, HP's director of marketing for worldwide business notebooks. "We want to provide a different option ... it's probably a little time yet before we'll know exactly what the demand is, but we did think it was something worth trying."