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Issue : 25Team : T.Shrinivasan ( tshrinivasan@gmail.com ) , K.Balavignesh ( kbalavignesh@gmail.com )Date : 06-08-2009Join Mailing List athttp://groups.google.com/group/fossnews/
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1. Boxee Will Blow You Away2. Intel and Nokia join forces for open source3. 10 tools to connect to wireless networks in Linux4. BBC begins work on open source documentary series5. Turn Ordinary Webcam into a Security Spy Camera on Ubuntu Linux6. How-to migrate to Linux7. Linux appliances made easy with SUSE Studio8. Canonical Releases Launchpad Source Code9. Get Ready for PHP 610. 10 outstanding Linux backup utilities11. 50 Tutorials To Get You Started With Gimp
1. Boxee Will Blow You Away
Boxee is a cross-platform freeware media center software with promising new social networkingfeatures. Boxee is based on XBMC media center, an award winning open source project.
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Boxee provides support for a wide range of multimedia formats and includes features likeplaylists, stunning audio visualisations, slideshows, and even live weather forcasting.
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An ever increasing list of third party apps is another important but obvious charteristic of boxee, being an Open Source application.
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Boxee can play most audio and video file formats, as well as display images from almost allkind of sources like CD/DVD's, flash drives and so on. More info on feature list here in
2. Intel and Nokia join forces for open source
Nokia and Intel have announced a new strategic partnership for mobile development. This is bignews for open source, since both Intel and Nokia rely on Linux (and open source) for theirrespective mobile platforms.Intel has Moblin, Nokia has Maemo -- both are Linux based mobile operating systems. Now the twoefforts will benefit from a co-ordinated joint effort onsome key open source mobile applications including :oFono, ConnMan, Mozilla, X.Org, BlueZ, D-BUS,Tracker, GStreamer and PulseAudio.It's likely the mobile Linux and open source communitiesas a whole will continue to benefit as organizations cometogether and partner on Linux and open sourcetechnologies.http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/06/intel-and-nokia-join-forces-fo.html
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I spend much of my time on wireless networks. The distribution of Linux I’m using and thehardware I’m using will dictate which application I use to connect to any given access point. Someof these tools are distribution independent. Some are not. Some were created for a specific desktopbut will still work with other desktops.For many mobile Linux users, being able to connect via wireless is just a matter of finding the righttool. Here are 10 of them that will help you connect your Linux laptop to a wireless access point. If one doesn’t work (or install), try another. Eventually you’ll get connected.
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GNOME Network Manager
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Wicd
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Wifi-wiz
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YaST2
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getwifi
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Wireless Tools
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Wireless Assistant
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wifi-radar
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GTKWifi
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4. BBC begins work on open source documentary series
TheBBChas begun working on a series of four one-hour documentaries for itsBBC Twochannel
about how the web has, and still is, changing our lives. The current working title for the open andcollaborative documentary series is the "Digital Revolution". According to a poston the Digital
Revolution Blog, the goal of the project is to open up the production process as much as possible byasking for advice and stories from online users and by sharing as many of the production teamsthoughts and ideas as possible. The documentary will take a look at the World Wide Web, createdby Sir Tim Berners-Leeover twenty years ago, and focus on how it has changed our lives, including
how we communicate, disseminate knowledge and share information.http://www.h-online.com/open/BBC-begins-work-on-open-source-documentary-series--/news/113750
5. Turn Ordinary Webcam into a Security Spy Camera on Ubuntu Linux
Do you want to turn your ordinary webcam into a motion-detecting security spy camera? Do youwant to automatically upload the captured images or videos from your webcam to a remote server?Do you want to know who has been stealing your chickens? If you answered yes to any of the
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