Fedora 10 proves infrastructure matter.
Glancing at the features list for Fedora 10, at first you might be unimpressed. Many of the features are basically infrastructure improvements, fixing known problems and enhancing performance while laying the groundwork for future developments. However, infrastructure affects almost everything you do with your computer more... and Fedora 10 released and What's new in Fedora 10.

HandBrake 0.9.3 accepts any files, boosts encoding quality.
HandBrake 0.9.3 brings so many other enhancements, though, that it could really have been called 1.0 due to the 600+ items on this version's changelog. This includes picture quality when encoding to H.264 that has been "dramatically" enhanced and sped up thanks to improvements in the x264 project more...

Dimdim out of Beta on December 3rd.
Open source conferencing startup Dimdim is set to formally exit its beta period on December 3rd. Dimdim first demoed their software a year ago at DEMO - and their "Eagle" release came out in May of this year. Dimdim has also recently benefited from the investment of Zimbra founder Satish Dharmaraj. more...

Atheros Wi-Fi goes open-source, Linux friendly.
If you use Wi-Fi on your laptop, there's an excellent chance you're using Atheros chipsets for your wireless networking. Atheros' silicon is in gear from Linksys, D-Link and Netgear to name but a few vendors. more...

Applications.
The Regex Coach is a graphical application for Windows which can be used to experiment with (Perl-compatible) regular expressions interactively.
QDVDAuthor The goal is to provide an easy-to-use, yet powerful and complete interface to generate DVD menus, slideshows, and videos to burn on a DVD.

Misc.
Picasa 3: Great Linux photo software.
RadioBeta is to become your radio web sintonizer.
Rockola.fm Spanish music station.
Jokosher Interview.
After the Software Wars - Book.
Ubuntu on the Aspire One.

How To Tips.

How To View .chm Files In Ubuntu 8.10.
How To Install SugarCRM community edition in Ubuntu 8.10 Server.
How To Install VMware Server 2 On Ubuntu 8.10.
How To Install Virtualbox 2.0.2 in Ubuntu 8.04.
How To Installing And Configuring ntop.
How To The Useful Uses Of Mod Rewrite.
How To Back Up/Restore Hard Drives And Partitions With CloneZilla Live.
How To Have adblock in Opera 9.
How To Creating a Robots.txt Honeypot.

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