Thursday, January 26, 2012

About Linux: New Version of Video Editor LiVES

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LiVES is an advanced multi-media tool, that not only works well as video editor to produce movies, but also offers a VJ ("Video Jockey") mode for conducting live synchronized music-video performances.

LiVES Version 1.6.0
There is a new development version of the video editing and VJ tool LiVES, a free, yet stable and powerful software package for editing digital videos, creating real time video displays and imagery, and mixing visuals and music... Read more

Desura Games Client now Open Source
A couple months ago developers have released a Linux client for the game platform Desura, which provides services for purchasing, downloading, installing, and running a wide range of games. Now they have made the client available as open source... Read more

How to Write Regular Expressions for Pattern Matching
The regular expression syntax allows you to do more complex searches than the simple Find typically available in software applications. For example, if you are searching for two or more words in a particular order that may have other words between them... Read more



 


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Thursday, January 19, 2012

About Linux: Microsoft Boots Linux from ARM PCs

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It appears Microsoft has chosen a more literal interpretation of the "Secure Boot" technology and is using it to "boot" competing operating systems from PCs pre-installed with its Windows 8 OS, in particular from the new ARM-processor based PCs.

Microsoft Boots Linux from ARM PCs
Microsoft Corporation apparently is leveraging its desktop OS market share to direct PC manufactures to configure Secure Boot such that it is impossible to turn it off or boot operating systems not approved by Microsoft... Read more

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Renaming Files with the find, sed, sh commands
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Thursday, January 12, 2012

About Linux: Linux Desktop Market Share Increases by 40% in 4 Months

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After having stagnated at around 1% for several years, there is movement in the Linux desktop market share.

Linux Desktop Market Share Increases by 40% in 4 Months
While Linux based operating systems in desktop computers have held only a tiny market share of around 1% in the past few years, NetMarketShare has observed an astonishing increase... Read more

Ubuntu TV - The Future of TeleVision?
At this year's CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas, Ubuntu developer Canonical is showcasing Ubuntu TV, a large-scale integration of technologies and services that provides the user with a simple and friendly interface to TV, movies, music, photos, and other Internet and Cloud services... Read more

StepMania 5.0
Developers have released the first alpha version of StepMania 5.0, a popular rhythm video game. With this game you can choose from a large collection of songs and play a kind of video game where you follow the beat of the music and the motion of arrows in the video to tap keys on the keyboard at the right moment... Read more



 


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Thursday, January 5, 2012

About Linux: Red Hat is Hiring

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From Juergen Haas, your Guide to Linux
Linux companies such as Red Had and SUSE have seen a strong demand for cloud computing products and services and expect solid growth in 2012. This is one area were you can still find jobs, especially if you have Linux expertise.

Red Hat Plans to Hire more than 1000 People in 2012
The developer of Red Hat Linux, one of the top Linux distributions, intents to increase its workforce by almost 25% this year. Much of the growth is driven by the surge in cloud computing... Read more

Scribus 1.4.0 Released
The developers of the open source desktop publishing package Scribus have put in close to four years of work since the last major release. They upgraded the graphical user interface system to Qt4 and made full use of its capabilities... Read more

Pithos - Linux Client for Pandora Music
Pandora Music is a kind of Internet radio which allows you to tailor the stations according to your taste of music. Pithos is a Linux client that connects to your Pandora account and provides a convenient interface... Read more



 


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