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A more informative status line for Vim
Author: Kim Schulz
At the bottom of the Vim editor, you will find two things: the command-line buffer (where you can input commands) and the...
A survey of existing Linux patents
Author: Danny R. Graves
The Linux world has been all atwitter since Acacia Technologies Group filed a lawsuit against Red Hat and Novell alleging that...
Book review: The Essential Blender
Author: Nathan Willis
The Essential Blender from No Starch Press is both a reference and instructional guide to Blender, the open source 3-D modeling, rendering,...
LinuxBIOS Brings Clones One Step Closer to Freedom
No matter how hard you try to build a 100 percent Free/Open Source (FOSS) computer, there are a few bits you can't reach that...
China puts hopes in Loongson CPU
Author: Chen Nan Yang
China, which has long wished to develop its own computer industry, has chosen to go with Linux on the software side....
Another Day Another Distro – Part 5 – Debian 4.0 Etch
After a short delay I continued my tour and made it onto Debian Etch. One slight problem though, I managed to accidentally install the...
Listening to and recording audio and video streams with MPlayer
Author: Dipen Chaudhary
Most streaming audio and video on the Internet is disseminated in proprietary formats such as RM, RAM, WMV, and ASF. Fortunately, the...
Going all-in with PokerTH
Author: Joe Barr
According to Wikipedia, Texas Hold'em is "the most popular poker variant played in casinos in the United States." With the GPL-licensed...
Vixta: Nice concept, incomplete execution
Author: Susan Linton
Vixta is a new Linux distribution, first released only last month, based on the not-yet-released Fedora 8. Its main objective is to...
Gobuntu
This weekend I upgraded my machine to Gobuntu, the entirely-free-software (but see below) version of Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon. Since I’m specifically named as...