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KDE 4.0 Beta 1 Release

KDE 4.0 Beta 1 has been released which marks the beginning of the integration process which will bring the powerful new technologies included in the now frozen KDE 4 libraries to the applications. Also the second Alpha of KOffice 2.0 has been announced.
The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the [...]

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Pod: Red Hat Mag - The Future of (Free) Music

Open source evangelist and Red Hat Community Development Manager, Greg DeKoenigsberg can’t help but speak the truth. Get him talking about music and he packs a room. Listen and you’ll hear why.
Music by Brad Sucks, “Making me nervous”.

Duration:
10:19

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Podcast: OpenDocument and the Move to XML Formats

Customers are now implementing solutions based upon the OASIS OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Microsoft’s OpenXML standard, endorsed by ECMA, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Billions of word processing and spreadsheet files are being converted to XML in one of these two formats. OpenDocument expert Gary Edwards believes that adopting OpenXML means lock-in [...]

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Podcast: openSUSE 10.2 Overview

On Linux on the desktop, episode 16, I give a complete overview of openSUSE 10.2 including the installation, setup and configuration and we also take a look at the KDE and GNOME desktop on openSUSE. But, first we will look at current Linux and Open Source headlines. Dell brings out pre-installed Ubuntu PCs and we [...]

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Nearthwort Podcast #11: Richard Stallman, founder of the free software movement

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This show features an interview with Richard Stallman, founder of the free software movement and the man who put the GNU into GNU/Linux.
After introducing the concept of free software, Richard offers some trenchant criticism of two tech superstars: the Lord of Linux, Linus Torvalds, and Apple guru Steve Jobs. From there, we move into [...]

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Podcast: LinuxReality on Browsers

Indeed very interesting episode from Linuxreality on browsers.
In this episode: my return from vacation; a discussion of various Linux web browsers, including Firefox, Seamonkey, Epiphany, Galeon, Konqueror, Opera, Dillo, Lynx, Links, ELinks, and w3m; two listener tips; listener feedback - yep, the order is reversed.
Download: linuxreality032.mp3 (31:46)

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Podcast Production Using Linux and Available Open Source Tools

Producing a podcast on Linux is easier than you think, thanks to some versatile tools.

It’s not that no one thinks of multimedia and Linux in the same frame. Many do. They’re the Linux and FOSS evangelists, determined to remove all vestiges of proprietary software from their computing lives and yours, too, if you [...]

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