Department Desktop

Stellarium

What shines in the dark is often hidden by clouds. Stellarium provides a clear view of the stars plus a lot of astronomical data.

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Sound System

The latest version of Ardour – a full-featured digital audio workstation – offers some major new developments. We take a closer look.

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Keeping Log

Many logging and user-related commands can help you check on your system and keep track of security matters. We guide you through several helpful tools.

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Embedded Knowledge

Nepomuk extends the tools of the semantic web to desktop applications and files. We look under the hood at this exciting technology and show you what Nepomuk is doing right now on the new KDE desktop.

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In Control

Controlling a miniature train empire with concurrent Linux processes.

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The Nature Trail

Modern chemistry and biochemistry are hard to understand without 3D models. In this article, we look at programs that bring order to the chaos of connected atoms by arranging them in functional sections and in three dimensions.

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Happy Birthday

LibreOffice celebrates its birthday with the release of the first version with a 4 in front of the dot. All modules offer substantial improvements and the kinds of changes that warrant a major version. We look at some features worth celebrating.

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In Full Stream

Thanks to protocols such as UPnP and DLNA, video, audio, and photos are distributed to TVs, gaming consoles, PCs, and smartphones without the need for configuration. Linux as a central media server is a welcome guest.

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Smart Raspberry

Tired of that big clunky media center unit taking up shelf space in your living room? We'll show you how to put together a tiny multimedia system with the versatile and ever-popular Raspberry Pi.

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Issue #151 / Jun 2013

Cover Theme: Brain in the Desktop
DVD: openSUSE 12.3

Highlights:

The Nepomuk semantic desktop has matured with the KDE 4 series. We look at how you can use Nepomuk to structure information about the files, folders, and applications on your system.... more »

Free Video Archives! CeBIT Open Source Forum 2012

The presentations were streamed live from CeBIT and are now available in the Linux New Media video archive!

New Blog Posts

- Technophile / Technophobe
- The Limits of Anonymity
- Suggestions for improving Yorba's crowdfunding campaign

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