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Sep
20th

An Ecology Of Ardour

Author: Dave Phillips | Files under syndicated

This article is a brief report on some of the current news and activities going on in the world of Ardour, Paul Davis’s superb open-source digital audio workstation (DAW). What began as a labor…


Sep
16th

OpenOffice.org: Interactions Between Programs

Author: Bruce Byfield | Files under syndicated

Some people insist that OpenOffice.org should be called an office application instead of an office suite. The distinction that they are trying to make is that the programs in OpenOffice.org shar…


Sep
3rd

Clonezilla Live

Author: Michael Reed | Files under syndicated

Clonezilla is a bootable CDROM designed for partition backup and restoration. Unlike SystemRescueCD, Clonezilla Live doesn’t contain an array of utilities, rather, it is a single, focused tool. …


Sep
2nd

No Steam for Linux – Right Now

Author: Susan Linton | Files under syndicated

Despite some early teasing, it now seems Steam is not coming to Linux after all – at least for now. more>>


Aug
31st

New Wine: Running Windows Music & Sound Applications Under Wine 1.2

Author: Dave Phillips | Files under syndicated

Wine runs many Windows programs nicely these days, including more and more serious music applications. Dave profiles some of those applications running under the latest & greatest Wine 1.2
mor…


Aug
9th

OpenOffice.org: Sun PDF Import Extension

Author: Bruce Byfield | Files under syndicated

The Sun PDF Import Extension is one of the most popular OpenOffice.org extensions ever created. more>>


Aug
3rd

Introducing CsoundAC: Algorithmic Composition With Csound And Python

Author: Dave Phillips | Files under syndicated

What happens when the world’s most powerful waveform compiler meets one of the world’s most popular programming languages ? Find out how one programmer makes it all work out in this introductio…


Jul
28th

Going fast with DWM

Author: Mike Diehl | Files under syndicated

If there was any justice in this world, there would be two cars parked in my driveway. One would be a 1977 Ferrari 308 GTS. The other would be a midnight blue BMW M3 convertible with all the a…


Jul
16th

An Open Source 8-Bit Computer to Save the World

Author: Miguel Hernandez | Files under syndicated

At a recent local LUG I regularly attend, Braddock Gaskill gave a wonderful presentation on an open source 8-bit computer he had created. This was his first public debut of the device and every …


Jul
8th

A Topic for Discussion – Open Source Feature-Richness?

Author: David Lane | Files under syndicated

Twitter does not generally allow you to have a discussion. At least not me, who can barely say anything in less than a 1000 words, but here is a recent thread:
I’m not a fan of novel writing so…