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Oracle World Domination

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

The tickless kernel, which enables the processor to sleep between tasks
PowerTop to check what’s consuming more energy

Testing Debian MINT 201009

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Sep 132010

Everybody talks about the new baby of the Linux family Debian Mint, and everywhere I read enthusiastic articles of this distribution, and so while I did a test on virtual machine i did a test installation myself; these are my impressions.
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Kvm, Virtualbox or Vmware ?

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Sep 122010

In this article I want to talk about three great virtualization software for your desktop computer.

Why virtualize?

The current computers have faster CPUs and more RAM compared to those of 3 or 4 years ago. There is more ability to run a second operating system in parallel to your main operating system. But why do it?

To have another operating system (Windows, Linux or other)
For testing a new distribution
To prepare an environment dedicated to a product. For example, I installed a virtual machine with apache + mysql + everything I need for running a local a copy of my WordPress site

The three products that I will install and analyze on my Ubuntu 10.04 machine are: