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Imagine yourself making a Pixar movie and not paying a dime for the software needed to do it. That's the premise behind Blender 3D, a free fully featured 3D content creation suite. Open sourced under the GNU GPL since 2002, Blender has grown a lot since then. The current version, 2.36, is a real winner.

Podcasts are reinventing talk radio on the Web. These homemade audio downloads have become popular since they were introduced last year. Pontificate on your political opinions, praise your favorite bands, interview your hero -- the possibilities are limitless. Podcasts were created by fans of the Apple iPod, but you don't need an iPod or a Mac to make your own. Properly configured, the average Linux distribution can podcast with the best of them. Here's how.

A lot can change in a software release, and OpenOffice.org 2.0 is no exception. Rob Reilly takes a first look at OpenOffice 2.0 Beta, with screenshots of the latest addition to the popular office application, Base, as well as some of the other new features this open source productivity suite has to offer.

If you were Sony or Philips and you found that Microsoft had been not just using technology that you invented to invade your markets, but had been giving it away, would you want to sue or negotiate?

Certified and Supported Kits with Latest Platform-specific Linux Features and Eclipse 3.0-based Development Tools Available for Intel IOP321, IOP331, IOP332 and 80219 Processors

Win4Lin Pro™ Becomes Flagship Product for Running Windows Applications on Linux

Welcome to this year's 9th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Harald Welte reported a 2.1 M pps (packets per second) UDP packet forwarding rate over four gigabit ethernet ports, which is a new record for Linux. After OASIS, of which Debian is a member, has accepted a patent policy that has bad consequences on implementation of the standards, John Goerzen called for support for an open letter.

VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. (VA Linux), a leading provider of Linux solutions for the telecommunications and enterprise systems markets, today announced a strategic alliance with Sun Wah Linux Limited (SWL) to jointly develop a universal Debian GNU/Linux infrastructure and actively promote the adoption of Debian-based systems in both the Japan and China markets.

Last month Linux Canada released Quasar Accounting 1.4 for Linux under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Phil Tonnellier, president of Linux Canada, says it's too early to tell if the move to open source is paying off, but response has been good so far, with more than 6,000 downloads since the January 13 release.

Imagine combining BitTorrent and streaming audio. Instead of a web host and mirrors serving up streaming audio content at their expense, each listener of the audio becomes a potential server for it.

A fabulous first European Gentoo developer meeting and the bustling atmosphere of the FOSDEM conference in Brussels last Saturday and Sunday, news from Apache and documentation for Gentoo/FreeBSD: The Gentoo Weekly Newsletter is late this week, but hopefully worth the wait. Gentoo in the press still contains indirect fallout from the Boston LWE, and an interesting article about Gentoo in the enterprise, and the community section introduces a new mailing list archive for catalyst developers and users. Our usual GLSAs and bug statistics complete the picture for this week, enjoy reading the GWN!

Solutions Linux trade show is the French annual rendez-vous of Free Software technologies and their commercial applications. This year, it ran from February 1st to February 3rd. Like preceding years, KDE-France was present and benefited of a free booth in the "Associative Village".

My heart's desire, as a gnarly old Linux/Windows sysadmin, has long been for better management utilities: directory services, user and resource management, system monitoring, and single sign-on that work across a mixed environment. Something like Active Directory, only without the vendor lock-in, and it works right....In a sane world, Novell NetWare would have remained the dominant network operating system.

“Honey pot” experiment shows unprotected Windows SP 1 at risk

OpenOffice.org has always been conservative with version numbers. Enough minor releases have boasted enough new features that the current release could easily be 3.0 or 4.0 instead of 1.1.4. Given this record, it's hardly surprising that version 2.0, for which beta code was set to be unveiled yesterday, amounts to a major rewrite of the software. Although key functionality remains largely intact, version 2.0 promises dozens, possibly hundreds, of changes. Many times during our testing of the first beta release, we felt we could almost have been looking at an entirely new piece of software.

Linux systems require you to log in, become the super user (or root) for some tasks, open a terminal or shell window, and mount a CD-ROM. If you are new to Linux, this article will guide you through these tasks and more.

This is the fifth in our series of interviews with QGIS developers and users. This week we travel to Zurich, Switzerland to chat with QGIS developer Marco Hugentobler. Marco works on the vector data model implementation in QGIS. The interview was conducted by Tim Sutton and Gary Sherman.

The Free Software Foundation Europe has announced a new Fellowship program to defend freedom in the digital age. Loosely modeled on the US-based Free Software Foundation's Associate Membership program, the FSFE hope to attract both more finances and activists to support their work. At a time when the free software movement is under a variety of threats, both legal, political and market-based, the FSFE hope that its Fellowship will be seen as "a call to arms."

The nomination period is at an end, with six candidates standing forth to be counted. We are now in the campaigning period.

Since last year's release, The LiveCD List has more than doubled to a total of 220 LiveCDs. Today an updated version of The LiveCD List is being released on its own domain name, LiveCDList.com. It includes not only Linux x86 and PPC LiveCDs, but also 9 other architectures, BSD, Windows, LiveDVDs, and it links directly to the projects' download pages.