Latest KDE obliterates the competition

Imagine 52 million children being simultaneously introduced to KDE and Linux. Well, you no longer need to just imagine it, because the Ministry of Education Brazil, over the course of this and next year, will do exactly that. This is unabashed success.


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KDE 4.0.0 is out. The dream is alive!

KDE 4.0.0 release logo

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Removal of Ogg Vorbis and Theora from HTML5: an outrageous disaster

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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Thanks, Michael!

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.

How PulseAudio works

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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How to automate torrent downloads using TorrentFlux-b4rt, cron and rsync

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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A cursory look into KDE 4 file management: Dolphin beta

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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A visual stroll through the world of KDE 4 Beta (3.94)

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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Memo from Freesoftwareburg: How to effectively address the free software community

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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