Desktop News and Articles

Competition: XML for Mini-Browser in VoIP Phones

05.09.2007

Snom is calling for developers to submit inventive XML applications for the mini-browser in its Linux-based VoIP phones. Contributions will be published under the BSD license.

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ISO Rejects Microsoft Office Open XML Format

04.09.2007

The International Standardization Organization, ISO, has announced that Microsoft's Office-Open-XML format (OOXML) has failed in preliminary voting.

Administration , Desktop , OpenOffice , Windows
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KDE 4 to Appear Two Months Later

03.09.2007

The KDE project is postponing the release of version 4 of its free desktop environment by two months. According to the latest announcements, KDE 4.0.0 will not be appearing until December 20, 2007.

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Detecting movements with Motion

KNOW-HOW: WHO GOES THERE?

The motion detector software, Motion, monitors the video signal from one or multiple cameras and is able to detect whether a significant part of the picture has changed, record and track movement, or launch arbitrary external commands to trigger other actions.

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The 2007 Gnome Users and Developers Conference

COVER STORIES: GUADEC GATHERING

More than 400 Gnome users and developers gathered in the United Kingdom for the July 2007 GUADEC conference.

Events , Gnome
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Planning and coding at KDE’s aKademy 2007

COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK: AKADEMIC

Around 300 KDE developers met in Glasgow, Scotland, for this year’s aKademy KDE conference.

aKademy , Events , KDE
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Exploring web-based groupware tools

REVIEWS: GROUP DYNAMICS

Open source groupware tools have come of age. You are no longer limited to email and an address book. Some of these tools surpass the commercial alternatives – once you get them installed.

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Exploring VoIP in Linux

COVER STORIES: GET CONNECTED

Using a headset and a webcam to make phone calls is easy, interactive, and even free, thanks to VoIP. In this month's cover story, we'll help you choose a VoIP softphone, and we'll show you how to configure your own Asterisk exchange server.

Asterisk , Multimedia
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Opensuse's Build Service Offers Three OpenOffice Versions

17.08.2007

Three new branches in Opensuse's build service provide various OpenOffice packages: stable, unstable and extras. This replaces the previous OpenOffice build service.

OpenOffice , Opensuse
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Lotus Notes 8 Available for Linux Servers

14.08.2007

IBM has now released the new version of the Lotus Notes Groupware and Collaboration Suite for Linux servers. Besides numerous enhancements and a new, Java-based architecture, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 now provides a Linux distribution-based platform for the server.

Desktop , Eclipse , Red Hat
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