The Heron has landed.
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) on desktop and server, continuing Ubuntu's tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. more... and Ubuntu 8.04’s Wubi makes for universal desktop and Ubuntu 8.04 Is Ready to Take On Windows.

Sun looks to free up the rest of Java.
Sun Microsystems is stepping up efforts to boost Java usage in Linux shops by working to remove some final encumbrances in the open-source Java platform. By freeing these up, Java can be fully open-source and thus be packaged more easily with Linux distributions. In conjunction with this activity, Sun is talking with Linux distributors, including OpenSuse, Ubuntu and Fedora to have them offer an updated version of OpenJDK, which constitutes the open-source Java platform. Sun plans to offer the updated OpenJDK soon and clear the last few encumbrances later. more... and Java fully open-sourced 'by end of year'.

Opera 9.5 beta 2 improves speed, adds features.
Opera has consistently defied expectations about what a browser (and browser company) can accomplish. Begun back in 1994 as a research project at the Norwegian research company Telenor, the Opera browser was first released as version 2.0 in 1996, and ported to multiple platforms in 1998. more...

10 ways to sell corporate on Linux.
Your systems are all way overdue for an operating system upgrade, but your IT department is going over budget. You know you can’t afford the latest version of Microsoft Windows or Office. The easiest path to reining in your costs would be to migrate over to the Linux operating system. more...

Three utilities for automatically converting audio for portable music players.
The KDE desktop offers audiokonverter, while GNOME provides audio-convert and audio-convert-mod. The latter two are separate projects despite their similar names. audiokonverter provides packages for Debian, Ubuntu, openSUSE, and generic RPM distributions more...

Ubuntu Studio - The OS For the Ultimate Open Source Artist?
Ubuntu Studio is not different than Ubuntu plus some of the packages that are not installed by default. You can in fact, go to the package list page of Ubuntu Studio, and install them on your Ubuntu and feel no difference in terms of functionality. Ubuntu Studio is just a distribution along with the set of software packages installed by default that would be required by a studio professional. more... and UbuntuStudio/PackageList.

What Edubuntu can teach your kids.
Edubuntu is based on the Ubuntu Linux operating system and geared for a wide age-range of children from youngsters just learning to read all the way through teenagers getting ready to enter college. more...

Not only Ardour.
Ardour is currently the most advanced digital audio workstation for Linux. However, several other useful applications are also available. This article presents Traverso, Qtractor, Wired, Frinika, and Protux DAWs. more...

Applications.
OpenJDK is the effort by Sun Microsystems to release a fully buildable Java Development Kit based completely on free and open source code. more...
Open Movie Editor is A Free and Open Source Video Editor for Linux.
Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.
Mumble is an open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software.
OSSEC is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System.
mooColorFinder retrieve website colors from CSS Files.

Misc.
Synching the open source release schedule more....
Black Strat Blues.
How PulseAudio works.
The GNOME 2.24 Roadmap.
WebKit GTK+ port passes Acid3 on Linux.
Three Linux HTML editors reviewed.
Ubuntu Cheat Sheet and pdf.
Ez-12 Parabolic Reflector Antenna Template.
The AntennaWeb.org mapping program.

How To Tips.

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