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Ubuntu heads to the clouds

On July 1, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu in partnership with Eucalyptus Systems, an open-source cloud infrastructure firm, will be launching Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services.

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Go Google Chrome OS! Just don’t go too fast, too far

I’m rubbing my hands with glee with the thought of Google Chrome OS punishing Windows in the desktop market, but I also fear trading one desktop operating system overlord for another.
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Gimp Tricks: Selective Colorization

Today, I’m going to teach you how to first simply create a black and white image from a color photo, then to selectively colorize any portion of the photo. I’m not going to directly adapt a Photoshop tutorial because this is a very simple process, but if you want to find the Photoshop way of [...]

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The right to be free

This article is aimed mainly at the supporters of culture without boundaries, the people who have been convinced by Lawrence Lessig (the author of “The Free Culture”) and Richard M. Stallman’s ideas of fighting the bad copyright and non-free software licenses.

Everybody knows, that DRM is bad. Also everybody knows, that Open Source is just a [...]

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Amarok 2.1 is out & Installing Amarok 2.1 on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty

I was catching up on some feeds yesterday, and this piece of news caught my eye – Amarok 2.1 released. Being a long time Amarok fan ( heck Amarok itself was catalyst to make me use my SUSE 10.0 use full time) – I read the article with great interest. Amarok 2 users would know [...]

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