June 2010
Linux Mint 9 Isadora - You betrayed me, dear!
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 30th of June 2010 11:00:37 PM Filed under
dedoimedo.com: Linux Mint is a very popular, Ubuntu-based Linux distribution. It's Ubuntu with extra polish and more features for new and less experienced people, making it friendly and usable out of the box. For me, the general sentiment has always run true.
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Microsoft Office vs. OpenOffice
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 30th of June 2010 10:59:20 PM Filed under
software-latest.com: Typing documents, use of spreadsheets and slideshows are essential tools in the life of almost every professional. The largest of the problems found in Microsoft Office according to the vast majority of users is its price. This obligation on having to pay for an Office application suite has stimulated the development of OpenOffice.
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The 4 Best Photo Album Managers For Linux
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 30th of June 2010 10:57:29 PM Filed under
makeuseof.com: Plug your camera into your computer and it should automatically organize those pictures in such a way that you can easily find them later. This is the idea behind photo album managers, but not everyone agrees about which ones are best for the job.
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Calibre Is an Elegant E-Book Librarian
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 30th of June 2010 08:24:53 PM Filed under
linuxinsider.com: Calibre allows for easy e-book library management, file format conversions, e-book reading and syncing with an e-reader, all from a desktop, notebook or netbook computer.
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Open Video on the Web: Where Are We Now?
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 30th of June 2010 08:23:18 PMfosswire.com: Back in January 2009, I wrote a post on opening video on the web. At the time, the Mozilla Foundation had just invested $100,000 in the Wikimedia Foundation to use Theora for videos on their sites. In the last year and a half, the situation with video on the web has changed quite a lot.
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Open Source is Inherently More Secure, Says Red Hat
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 30th of June 2010 08:21:48 PM Filed under
esecurityplanet.com: At the Red Hat Summit in Boston last week, Josh Bressers, a senior security engineer at Red Hat, explained why open source really is the best model for building secure software.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Beta 2 Now Available
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 30th of June 2010 05:37:53 PM Filed under
redhat.com: Customer and partner testing of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Beta is in full swing, and we have been very pleased with the strong positive feedback that we have received from our testing community. We are on track...
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Mandriva's Future Rosy or Rose Colored?
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 30th of June 2010 05:35:17 PM Filed under
linuxjournal.com: News broke June 22 on the French technology Website, www.lemagit.fr, that Mandriva would neither have to be sold or closed due to the appearance of some private investors. Laprévote neither named these new investors nor elaborated on any specific business strategies.
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A KDE SC 4.4.5 Look
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 30th of June 2010 05:33:18 PM Filed under

cristalinux.blogspot: PCLinuxOS 2010.1 continues to surprise me time and again. Today they have managed to do it yet again with KDE SC 4.4.5. I did notice some new interesting features that I wanted to show you here.
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12 of the most interesting, unusual and useful Linux distros
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 30th of June 2010 05:30:09 PM Filed under
goodgearguide.com.au: The other major benefit of truly open source software is that you're allowed to modify a program and redistribute your altered version. Linux is a classic example of this: there are hundreds. We rounded up some of the most interesting Linux distros out there that you might not have heard of.
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| Red Hat Hires a Blind Software Engineer to Improve Accessibility on Linux Desktop
Accessibility on a Linux desktop is not one of the strongest points to highlight. However, GNOME, one of the best desktop environments, has managed to do better comparatively (I think).
In a blog post by Christian Fredrik Schaller (Director for Desktop/Graphics, Red Hat), he mentions that they are making serious efforts to improve accessibility.
Starting with Red Hat hiring Lukas Tyrychtr, who is a blind software engineer to lead the effort in improving Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Fedora Workstation in terms of accessibility.
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