Tagged Cool, Free software, KDE
Published Friday, January 11th, 2008 by Rudd-O
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Nokia and Apple have privately pushed to give Ogg the noose treatment (and so far succeeded) in HTML5. This destroyed all hope of having free (as in freedom) media embedded in HTML5 in an interoperable way.
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Tagged Free software, HTML and XHTML, Patents, Web standards
Published Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 by Rudd-O
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Those bug reports were my pleasure. Keep on doing great stuff like iogrind and your other projects! The community needs more efforts and people like you are a source of inspiration for newcomers and oldies alike.
Tagged Free software, GNOME, Performance, Programming
Published Sunday, November 25th, 2007 by Rudd-O
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In an effort to better understand how each of the PulseAudio components interact with each other, I’ve done a small diagram that roughly shows how each component connects and interacts:
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Tagged Free software, Linux
Published Monday, November 5th, 2007 by Rudd-O
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TorrentFlux-b4rt is an awesome masterpiece of engineering. You install it on your Web server, and then you can start downloading BitTorrent torrents right away. The catch is that those torrents are saved in your Web server until you actually download them to your PC. And having to schedule downloads separately is a pain. Well, no more.
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Tagged Cool, Free software, Linux, Server management, Ubuntu
Published Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 by Rudd-O
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Windows has Explorer. Mac OS has Finder. GNOME has Nautilus. And KDE had, up to a number of months ago, Konqueror. Now, together with the up-and-coming KDE 4, a simple file manager named Dolphin takes on file management. So how does Dolphin stack up?
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Tagged Free software, KDE, Reviews
Published Thursday, October 18th, 2007 by Rudd-O
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Curious about how the next generation of KDE looks like? Be curious no more: here’s a bleeding-edge (really, sometimes it bleeds) look at the latest — 3.94 — beta of KDE 4.
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Tagged Free software, KDE, Reviews
Published Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 by Rudd-O
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Winds of change are sweeping through the software industry. Today, it’s no longer fashionable to decry free software types as it was just a few years ago — the cool kids are all “leveraging” and reaching out to free software communities. But not everyone’s doing it right, so let’s explore seven principles to start a positive relationship with free software.
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Tagged Free software, Tutorials
Published Monday, October 8th, 2007 by Rudd-O
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