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Linux Distro as Food ?

Oct 012010

There are many articles that explain the different characteristics of the distributions of Linux, today I also want to try it my way.

If every Linux distribution was a food, which would you choose to eat?

I’ll try to resume for every distro the keywords that come to my mind thinking at it and see what’s the first Food result that google image give with these words and the word food.

Debian

The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating system. This operating system is called Debian GNU/Linux, or simply Debian for short. Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel. Debian comes with over 20,000 packages (precompiled software that is bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine) – all of it free.

Granola, Power saving software

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Sep 182010

Introducing Granola a software to help save some energy from your PC, and in the while help the nature.

This is a small followup from my article Linux for a green Desktop

Granola site say:

“Granola will green up your Linux or Microsoft Windows computers by cutting energy consumption by up to 35%. This will not only save you money, but help to save the planet by reducing CO2 emisions. Granola will not turn off your computer or give you any noticable performance loss, and it is totally free! Do your part to save the planet by installing Granola.”

I’m now testing it on my Ubuntu 10.04
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Oracle World Domination

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Sep 172010

Oracle Open world is starting once again in San Francisco, gathering more and more public every year, that’s perhaps normal considering that oracle is buying a new big company every year.
Oracle OpenWorld is the world’s largest and most important conference for Oracle technologists, business users, and partners.

Perhaps you think: i’m not intested in Oracle database so why should i care ?

Sorry but you are really wrong here, take a look at the List of acquisitions by Oracle and perhaps you’ll start to think that also your business, or just your desktop, after all run some oracle softwares.

Which one ?
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Open source tool for Video Editing

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Sep 172010

As seen in a previous article on audio, there are many excellent open source tool to create professional solutions.

Today I want to do a roundup on the video editing and show you some of the best open source software available for Linux to do video editing.

if you know other software, feel free to drop me a note on the comments.

OpenShot
Kino
Cinellera
Lives
Kdenlive
Pitivi
VideoLan Movie Creator

Linux for a green desktop

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Sep 142010

No, I do not want to talk of Linux MINT, but as is practically possible to apply some tricks to make our desktop a bit more nature oriented.

However let me say that thanks to your choice of Linux operating system you are already on the philosophical choice closer to nature:

Requires less resources: Linux distributions require an average of fewer resources, and the hardware can be used for longer.
KM 0: The Open Source philosophy relies heavily on volunteers who work from home and contribute to various projects.
Less packaging: Linux is mainly distributed via downloads and manuals are in digital format.
More cheap: In Linux you have many freely available software so you don’t have to work to buy them.

But now back on practice in particular we’ll see