Dyne:bolic is a LiveCD Linux distribution, shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives. It is distributed with a large assortment of applications for audio and video manipulation. Dyne:bolic is based entirely on free software.

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Linux.com writes about online library (Universal Library Project) which has made 1.5 million books freely available in digitized format. According to the researchers’ estimates, the Universal Library collection currently represents one percent of the approximately 100 million books to ever have been published.

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PDF Import feature will be available in the coming versions of OpenOffice.org suite. Here’s some information from OpenOffice.org Wiki:

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Wired is a music production and creation free software running on the Linux operating system. It brings musicians a complete studio environment to compose, record, edit and mix music without the need of expensive hardware.

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Raiden’s Realm published a short review of GeeXboX 1.1 –a free embedded Linux distribution which aims at turning your computer into a so called HTPC (Home Theater PC) or Media Center. The distribution comes with a complete and automatic hardware detection, not requiring any driver to be added. It supports playback of nearly any kind of audio/video and image files and all known codecs and containers are shipped in, allowing playing them through various physical supports, either being CD, DVD, HDD, LAN or Internet.

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Here’s another article about KDE 4.0. It was published last week, by The Inquirer.

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Ars technica published a brilliant review of the upcoming KDE 4.0 (release candidate 2). For tests the KDE 4 RC 2 Live CD image proved by the KDE community was used. The Live CD is based on OpenSUSE and provides easy access to a complete KDE 4 environment.

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Don’t Get Lost In Long Documents. LinuxPlanet gives some interesting KWord tips. Look through the article:

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Last Saturday, on 15th December, Creative Commons celebrated its fifth birthday. Celebrations were organised in San Francisco and in cities all over the world, including Bangalore, Beijing, Belgrade, Berlin, Brisbane, Los Angeles, New York, Pasay, and Seoul.

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Traverso is a GPL licensed, cross platform program for recording and mixing music, speech, and sounds on the computer. This is a complete solution from recording to CD Mastering. By supplying many common tools in one package, the user isn’t forced to learn different applications who often have different ways to be controlled.

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