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Blender’s Durian Open Movie Project Premieres Sintel. October 2, 2010. Yesterday, the Durian Open Movie Project premiered. A short animation film produced independently by the Blender Foundation and licensed under a Creative Commons licence. What makes this film (and previous Blender films, Big Buck Bunny. The project is funded partially through sponsors and the Netherlands Film Fund, but also from those who order the 4-disc DVD set. Buying the DVD set. Or watching it on YouTube. Peter Upfold is a techno...
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WattOS a lightweight, low-power Linux. June 23, 2010. A lightweight Linux distribution often seems to require making sacrifices — using a UI which many users would find unfamiliar and using software which is heavily cut down in functionality. Is a really interesting lightweight Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu 10.04 (as of WattOS R2). As the name might suggest, it is also focused on low power usage and is said to work well with older and . Click through to read more. August 19, 2009. FOSSwire i...
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Http:/ peter.upfold.org.uk/. Peter Upfold is a technology enthusiast from the UK. Peter’s interest in Linux stems back to 2003, when curiosity got the better of him and he began using SUSE 9.0. Now he runs Linux Mint 9 on the desktop, runs a CentOS-based web server from home for his personal website and dabbles in all sorts of technology things across the Windows, Mac and open source worlds. 2006 - 2010 Oratos Media.
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Get your GObject on with Vala. July 30, 2009. We’ve all heard the rants: Mono has patents, Microsoft releases community promise, community ignores, flamewars continue. Enough to make any developer want to stop programming out of sheer annoyance. Mono is an excellent language and platform; there’s nothing anybody can do to change that. People will continue to develop C# apps, and those that continue to hate Mono will continue to complain. There was always one thing about . Click through to read more.
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Quick Reference Converting Images with ImageMagick. July 28, 2010. While you might associate working with images with big graphical programs like GIMP or Photoshop, ImageMagick. Is an entirely different animal. It is a suite of command-line programs for converting and manipulating images. But why would you use a command line program to work with images, which are by definition, graphical? Well, for a start, you don’t have to load up a slow (and dare I say bloated) graphical . Click through to read more.
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The future of OpenOffice.org | FOSSwire
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The future of OpenOffice.org. October 4, 2010. Oracle’s purchase of Sun Microsystems. Has been the cause of some uncertainty and concern for the open source projects and initiatives that Sun were previously responsible for. Oracle are not known for being particularly welcoming or supportive of FOSS and with the relatively high profile OpenSolaris project being cancelled. Soon after the acquisition, much of that concern appears justified. Attention has therefore turned to OpenOffice.org. The community of ...
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The future of OpenOffice.org. October 4, 2010. Oracle’s purchase of Sun Microsystems. Has been the cause of some uncertainty and concern for the open source projects and initiatives that Sun were previously responsible for. Oracle are not known for being particularly welcoming or supportive of FOSS and with the relatively high profile OpenSolaris project being cancelled. Soon after the acquisition, much of that concern appears justified. Attention has therefore turned to OpenOffice.org. The premier open .
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