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Here's the thought (and action) process I went through to edit a video today with OpenShot 1.4.0 in Debian Squeeze (I've been using the OpenShot .deb package from the OpenShot Launchpad page to make sure I have the latest version). I used the audio and video from one long clip interspersed with titles created in OpenShot and still images from the same event. The "trick" was keeping the audio and video in sync, with the audio playing continuously, while I traded off the images with the video.

The book retailer claims also that the fees Microsoft was demanding were equal to or greater than those it demanded for an entire operating system, Windows Phone, even though the patents covered only "trivial and non-essential design elements" of the Android user interface. It also noted that there is only one patent common to the the five patents it is being sued over and the six that Microsoft was offering to license.

A few minutes ago, November 9th, The Document Foundation company proudly announced the fourth maintenance release of the LibreOffice 3.4 open source office suite software for Linux, Windows and Macintosh platforms, bringing several bugfixes.

Fedora 16 also includes the open source OpenStack cloud platform, which some industry pundits have seen as being a competitive technology to Fedora's Red Hat sponsor. Smith noted that in the case of Fedora, OpenStack is not a competitor with Aeolus.

"Aeolous and Open Stack are not competitive at all," Smith said.

What’s your next desktop OS or desktop manager going to look like? Have you been sucked into the dumbed-down, new-fangled garbage floating your way or are you going retro?

Getting down to the meat of the issue. After lots of considerations I finally got myself an android tablet. The device I choose is the Galaxy tab 8.9. I have used the device for close to a week and here are my thoughts about it, android honeycomb and tablets generally.

Fedora Utils is a "post installation" script for Fedora which lets you easily install applications that are not available in the main Fedora repositories and tweak various settings.

Red Hat and the Fedora Project community this morning have officially announced the release of Fedora 16. This release, which is codenamed "Verne", offers up a significant number of original improvements in the Linux desktop and server space...

SelekTOR for Linux allows you to watch online content provided by UK TV companies from anywhere in the world, so for those travellers that have paid their license fee and suddenly find they can’t get the latest depressing episode of Eastenders from their hotel room and the dodgy salacious channels provided by the hotel are not covered by business expenses, then this is for you.

It's not official! Firefox 8.0 and Thunderbird 8.0 were made available for download a few minutes ago, for all supported platforms.

It would be too easy, at this point, to deride Microsoft for their efforts. Certainly, there will be some who will scoff and point to the fact that Redmond is only acting to serve their own interests. However, there’s nothing wrong with serving one’s own interest. The way I figure it, we can’t call Microsoft to task when they do things such as stealing copyrighted code and invoking the DMCA over reverse engineering Skype, then not give them a pat on the head and a “good boy” when they make a valuable contribution to a free software project. Deriding Redmond here would only give them the opportunity to spew more FUD along the lines of “you can’t win with those fanatics.” It would also do nothing to encourage them to move in a direction that would be beneficial to all of us. When a dog is good, you throw him a bone, even if he’s usually a mean and vicious junkyard dog.

If you like music as much as me you may find yourself taking time pondering to yourself what would be the best way of creating lossy backups of your CD collection?. This article will discuss standard audio codecs and briefly cover common conversion tools available to *NIX Operating Systems. Article written for Debian & Ubuntu, Fedora, and ArchLinux.

* Adobe is Stopping development on Flash Player for browsers on mobile.

Adobe is now focusing their development efforts on:

* Applications for mobile * Expressive content on the desktop (in and out of browser) * Increasing their investments in HTML5 in general

These two open hardware projects are great for learning embedded programming, and they take two different but complementary approaches. The Arduino project is both hardware and software: tiny low-power single-board computers that are programmed using the Arduino IDE (integrated development environment). The Arduino programming language is based on Wiring and Processing, which were developed as teaching tools, and to program microcontrollers. Arduino is especially good for learning the fundamentals of electronics principles and hardware. The BeagleBoard is more powerful and supports any ARM-capable operating system such as Debian Linux, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, or Android.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the November 2011 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine.

MSC Vertriebs announced a COM Express module with Intel & 6 Series& chipset and a choice of seven different & Sandy Bridge& processors. The CXB-6S offers up to 16GB of RAM, an optional 8GB SSD (solid state disk), six PCI Express x1 lanes, dual display support, and four SATA ports, among other features....

My son was watching TV the other day and he shouted through to me to come and look at something.

"Isn't that the Linux penguin," he said, and sure enough, there he was, bold as brass on a Kellogs Froot Loops commercial.

Panasonic unveiled a rugged, 10.1-inch Android 3.2 tablet for the enterprise market with extended temperature, drop, and ingress resistance. The Toughpad FZ-A1 is equipped with a dual-core 1.2GHz Marvell processor, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, a full range of wireless features, a security co-processor, and an anti-glare, 500-nit display with 1024 x 768 pixels and an active digitizing pen....

Hang on, lads, I've got a great idea Open ... And Shut Cloud computing may be the future, but it appears to be one fraught with unpredictable downtime and security breaches. In other words, it's very much like the bad ol' days of corporate data centres, except that this time Amazon, Salesforce and other cloud providers get the blame when things go wrong - rather than one's local IT folks.…

For people who prefer the KDE 3.5-style desktop, a new version of the Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) has been released. Trinity is a continuation of the KDE 3.5 Desktop Environment with ongoing updates and new features. Trinity Desktop Environment 3.5.13 source code and packages for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora are available. The upcoming openSUSE 12.1 release will even feature the Trinity Desktop Environment 3.5.13 as part of their release. Read on for an overview of what is new in Trinity 3.5.13! read more