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Since becoming interested in Linux I haven't really paid much attention to Debian. My first ever encounter with Debian was with Debian 5 and on a very old Mitac Laptop with an AMD Athlon Mobile processor. That was a positive experience because unlike the releases of Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu at that time it was the only distribution that worked on this laptop. However, it was a very brief experience. So here we are with Debian 6 which I have been waiting to try for a long time.

Here is a new addition to my series on common user interface mistakes in KDE applications. This time I want to talk about being GNOME friendly. While that may sound odd for a KDE developer to think about GNOME, assuming we want our applications to reach the largest possible audience, we should try to ensure GNOME users get a pleasurable experience. After all, a user is a user, there are efforts going on to ensure KDE works well on Windows and Mac OS X, I think we should also take care of GNOME users. They are at least as likely if not more likely to contribute back to our applications.

Just a few days after J.S. Bach's 326th birthday on 21 March, the Open Goldberg Variations project has achieved its first fundraising milestone, raising more than $16,000 in just 20 days on Kickstarter.com. The project's aim is to create a new score and studio recording of J.S. Bach's masterpiece, the Goldberg Variations, and donate them to the public domain

For the first time Ubuntu and Canonical seem to be running official advertising online. The ads right now are largely focused around Canonical services for businesses though the Ubuntu brand is proudly displayed.

In an effort to revolutionize the world of open source, a free software advocate has submitted a new license to the Open Source Initiative. The document is two years in the making, and it's known as the CDL, short for Chicken Dance License.

As a former technical writer and a sometime reviewer of software, I don't need anyone to tell me how important documentation is -- nor how often it is the last part of a project if it is considered at all. But recently, I had a frustrating reminder.

The lead developer of Ardour, Paul Davis, has released the first alpha of version 3.0 of the open source audio software. The most important new feature highlighted by the developer is the multi-track recorder's comprehensive MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) support: Ardour 3 will also work as a MIDI sequencer.

LXer Feature: 25-Mar-2011

This is the terrible bargain of free content: in exchange for content we don't have to pay for, everyone pays in crappy content, ads masquerading as news and reviews, and wholesale invasion and exploitation of our privacy and personal business. We already have crappy advertiser-controlled TV and radio, why would anyone want to extend that to movies, books, and music?

UPDATED: A major issuer of secure socket layer (SSL) certificates acknowledged on Wednesday that it had issued 9 fraudulent SSL certificates to seven Web domains, including those for Google.com, Yahoo.com and Skype.com following a security compromise at an affiliate firm. The attack originated from an IP address in Iran, according to a statement from Comodo Inc.

Gnome 3 is going to be the next major Gnome desktop release. It will replace the existing version with a radical new interface, which is focused on a modern, Web 2.0 like approach to computing. All right, but is it any good? I will try to give you two perspectives - that of a casual user and that of a veteran productivity user.

Less than five months after releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.0, Linux distributor Red Hat has now announced the beta phase of the first RHEL6 update. As usual in this phase of the RHEL version families' seven to ten-year life cycle

Java is entering a renaissance following a period of darkness under Sun Microsystems, according to Oracle and computing giant IBM. Mark Reinhold, chief architect of Oracle's Java platform group and one of Sun's former principal engineers, reckons that with Oracle's acquisition of the slowly fading Sun, things are looking brighter and "we" can finally make some progress.

Google Desktop is a local version of Google’s powerful indexing and search system. And, unlike other such solutions, this one won’t slow down your computer. Why?

Foremay is shipping a NAND solid state drive (SSD) claimed to be the world's smallest SSD & disk-on-chip.& Its OC177 DOC chip measures only 0.87 x 0.87 x 0.07 inches (22 x 22 x 1.8mm), supports standard IDE or SATA host interfaces, and is available in 32GB capacities, with a read/write speed of up to 70/40MB/sec, says the company....

Be there or be square-- your favorite author, which hopefully is me, appears Thursday 24 live on the Computer America Radio Show. 8pm Pacific, 11pm Eastern. Turn on and tune in! You can even drop out if you want. Real radio and Internet!

Jumping in with the recent releases of the open-source Lightspark Flash Player is a new release of the Gnash Flash Player. The last Gnash release was version 0.8.8 back in August, but it's now been succeeded by a new point release. The previous release delivered on VA-API video acceleration support and "100% YouTube compatibility", but this new 0.8.9 release isn't quite as exciting for most users...

Last week following a dispute among several core FFmpeg developers, FFmpeg was forked as libav. The group remaining in the "FFmpeg" this week have now merged the ffmpeg-mt branch to their SVN trunk code-base. This is the code that's been worked on now for nearly three years to provide multi-threaded decoding support in FFmpeg...

Jean Bartik, the last of the original ENIAC programmers, died this morning. She was 86. ENIAC – the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer – was the first large-scale, fully electronic, and general-purpose computer. Its best-known application was computing firing tables for the U.S. Army, although World War II ended before the computer was finished.

Audacity, the popular cross-platform software audio recorder and editor, is easy-to-learn yet very capable. To get started, I'll show you how you can create your own CD in Audacity on Linux. From simple recording all the way to mastering the CD, you'll learn the basics of doing audio production in Audacity.

Linux audio is powerful and flexible, and annoying as heck. When you have no sound it can be as simple as Alsamixer resetting everything to mute when you shutdown (Why? Who the heck knows) to problems caused by device conflicts, and our ever-popular friends* Java and Adobe Flash. Java and Flash need drama in their lives, so they break things to get attention.