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Bitwig Studio: A Professional Music Creation Software (DAW) Comes To Linux

(Jan 19, 2012, 15:01 UTC) (1584 reads) (0 talkbacks) (Posted by vbeal)
Ubuntu Vibes: "Bitwig has now released Bitwig Studio, a multi-platform professional music-creation system and Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) for production, performance and DJing."

Anti SOPA/PIPA Protest: How it happened and what you can do

(Jan 19, 2012, 13:02 UTC) (1301 reads) (1 talkbacks) (Posted by vbeal)
LinuxBSDos.com: "If you have been living under a pebble and have no idea what SOPA and PIPA mean, watch this video."

GNOME Shell 3.2.2 Released

(Jan 19, 2012, 12:10 UTC) (2647 reads) (0 talkbacks) (Posted by vbeal)
Softpedia: "GNOME Shell 3.2.2 is a maintenance release and it comes with over 15 changes, as well as lots of updated translations."

Breaking down the gender divide in open source and open culture

(Jan 19, 2012, 09:01 UTC) (1364 reads) (3 talkbacks) (Posted by vbeal)
TechWorld: "Women's participation in open source development is an order of magnitude worse than in the proprietary software world."

High-quality scientific graphics with MathGL: An interview with Alexey Balakin

(Jan 19, 2012, 07:02 UTC) (2092 reads) (0 talkbacks) (Posted by vbeal)
FLOSS for Science: "An interview with Alexey Balakin the lead developer of MathGL, a library to render high-quality scientific graphics and manage big data arrays."

Aligning Linux Distributions With Presidential Hopefuls

(Jan 19, 2012, 03:06 UTC) (2094 reads) (1 talkbacks) (Posted by vbeal)
The VAR Guy: "If the candidates did run Linux, which distribution would they choose? At the risk of offending various groups of people, here are my answers, for better or for worse."

92 Open Source Apps That Replace Everyday Software

(Jan 18, 2012, 23:00 UTC) (5214 reads) (0 talkbacks) (Posted by skerner)
Datamation:Some of the best open source applications available for home, school, small business or enterprise users.

Improve Linux System Efficiency with Control Groups

(Jan 18, 2012, 22:03 UTC) (2220 reads) (0 talkbacks) (Posted by vbeal)
Wazi: "Control groups, or cgroups, is a kernel feature designed to aggregate tasks to allow for hierarchical resource management and allocation. Here�s how you can take advantage of control groups to improve your systems� efficiency."

10 Open Source Shopping Carts to Run Your Ecommerce Business

(Jan 18, 2012, 21:02 UTC) (1911 reads) (1 talkbacks) (Posted by vbeal)
CIO: "For businesses that rely on online transactions, open source shopping carts are a good alternative to proprietary ecommerce software."

Open source needed to save democracy

(Jan 18, 2012, 20:01 UTC) (1659 reads) (0 talkbacks) (Posted by vbeal)
ZDNet.com.au: "Open-source software developers face greater risks today than they ever have, to the point where the constraints inherent in proprietary software now represent a risk to democracy, according to one of the movement's leading figures."

Google Workers Caught 'Vandalizing' Open Source Maps

(Jan 18, 2012, 19:04 UTC) (3138 reads) (2 talkbacks) (Posted by vbeal)
WIRED: "High-ranking members of the OpenStreetMap project have claimed that user accounts attached to a range of Google internet addresses in India have been maliciously tampering with its data."

Canonical Removes Java from Ubuntu on February 16

(Jan 18, 2012, 18:01 UTC) (3757 reads) (0 talkbacks) (Posted by vbeal)
Softpedia: "Java packages will be removed only from the software repository and no future updates will be applied to them."