Unboxing Chumby - Another Linux powered Device That is Making Waves

So what prompted me to show such a deep interest in a product after reading for only 5 minutes about it? It was the open nature of the product’s design philosophy on both hardware and the software front. It is hacker-friendly, easily customizable, *built on the Linux platform and hence guaranteed to attract a large user and developer community.*

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KDE4 Desktop Effects (KWin Composite) Video Tour

The desktop effects are coming along nicely, with many plugins available. You will no longer need to run Compiz to get many standard and convenient composite features: they will be available right inside KDE 4. In many cases the plugins improve window management, provide a little eye-candy to the desktop or are just useful in various situations.

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Dead Easy: Create A Your Own Custom Ubuntu 7.10 Live-CD With Remastersys

This guide shows how you can create a Live-CD from yourUbuntu Gutsy Gibbon or Linux Mint 4.0 system with a tool called remastersys. Remastersys is available in the Linux Mint romeo repository. You can customize your Ubuntu/Linux Mint system and then let remastersys create an iso image of it which you can then burn onto a CD/DVD.

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North, South Korea Unite Over Linux

The bitter political foes will team with China on the project, tentatively named "Hana Linux"

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Flash Player 9 Update 3 for linux released!

This version has support for the standard H.264 and AAC codecs and has hardware-accelerated fullscreen support. Also supports the new XEmbed browser protocol which should make it work in Opera.

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Asus predicts it will ship 3.8 million Eee PCs next year

According to Engadget, "To put that in some perspective, HP (currently at the top of the laptop heap) shipped some 6.2 million laptops total in the last quarter, while Apple sold approximately 1.4 million in the same time period." In other words, this is a serious digital tipping point in favor of Free Open Source Software.

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Compiz Fusion news - lots of new plugins

Loads of new plugins for Compiz Fusion again, with many new things to put inside the cube - snow, a snowman, sand, coral, even windows! Besides that there's Maximumize, Freescale and BasicBlur, plus some patches to Compiz Core, some bugs squashed and more.

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