The organizer, the Ubuntu eV Germany, now has the full conference program announced. About 40 lectures and workshops are held in six parallel rows in the three days of the conference. The topics include the community, development, everyday, and servers. The event will be held this year in the premises of the University of Leipzig.
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“Codec2 is a digital voice codec open source narrowband applications in its first Alpha version. Currently 3.75 seconds can be encoded with a clear expression in 1050 bytes, and there are opportunities for additional compression will further reduce its bandwidth. The main developer is David Rowe , who also worked in Speex . Designed originally for Amateur Radio, both through software modems and sound card in HF and as an alternative to current proprietary voice codec used in D-STAR , the codec is also probably useful for telephony at a fraction of existing bandwidth. Lots of telephony software are sales in market for telephony.
The algorithm is based on documents from the 1980′s and is intended to coexist without the encumbrance of the remaining patent claims. The license is LGPL2. The project is looking for developers for testing applications, improve their algorithms, conversion, troubleshooting and coding to be more appropriate for embedded systems. “
Run games designed for Windows under Linux environments has been a task that has fallen under the responsibility of Wine in recent years, and while it seems that’s going to change, at least expected to enjoy higher levels of performance and compatibility, Once this has been done completely. The magic comes from none other than Gallium3D, as its new implementation includes support for Direct3D 10 and 11. According to its developers, the leads needed to exploit this in Wine will be very easy to make, and should not be a drop in performance .
Running Windows games under Linux is certainly possible, although there are details of compatibility and performance. Wine has done very well so far, but its effectiveness is far from perfect, especially if you throw three-dimensional graphics into the equation. Speaking of native support for Linux in some games is almost like a science fiction movie. Enough work for developers to put pressure on hardware manufacturers to create drivers, and when they do, often rely on closed source. And as if that were not enough, we also have DirectX, eternal ruler of all multimedia tasks carried out under the Windows platform. A Microsoft has not shaken the pulse of DirectX discriminate in their own operating systems (Windows XP does not support DX10), therefore, one should not expect any kind of voluntary support to bring DirectX to Linux.
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Not only students can take advantage of open source tools to study, but teachers can find different ways to optimize their work and management of its pupils, usable in a common Linux distribution. iTALC , for example, is a valid management application of computers in any teaching laboratory with the ability to control every single location, view on a PC server what pupils are browsing in real time and show them a presentation, movie, or any other multimedia content , and restart all computers at once.
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For those dealing with chemical molecules, one of the best solutions available is GAMGI , a tool for the construction, visualization and analysis of atomic structures are rather complex, but in a manner simple enough for anyone with a little familiarity with the area. To work with GAMGI But you need to know much information about the elements used, information available at any time through Kalzium , which bears the periodic table of elements on your desktop. Also in the field of chemistry is reported Ghemical , software for computation of information and data. Vp7wkp simulates the decay of radioactive elements, while OMNeT offers the opportunity to simulate discrete events.
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A platform mainly dedicated server environments and those who enjoy “hacking” Linux over time has managed to become an operating system suitable for everyone. This thanks to the emergence of various applications, which went to fill the gaps in many areas, among them, that teaching has for some time a wide range of choice, with dedicated software and students with useful tools for each school discipline or university, both teachers with e-learning platforms and open source applications for the management of their virtual classroom. This article will propose some of the many solutions available to one and other.
From Linux Zone mentioned, on several occasions, the possibility of using wallpapers on the relations appearing frequently used commands. On this occasion, and updating the section of curiosity , we left a bit of pc but still have to hand the orders to the terminal. Meeting at the forum a comment that offers to download a pdf through which we can build our own bucket of paper or cardboard, with several orders for the terminal on the faces of the same. Our partner hispalis70 has already made his bucket and is as you see to the left of these letters
Obviously we are in a game based on the universe of the classic “Sonic the Hedgehog.”
Sonic huego Open source is a book that introduces a new way to play, the collaborative mode, with which we can control three characters simultaneously.
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MotoGT is a free game bike racing top view 2D, simple but addictive.
It is still in a precarious state beta but promises to improve, so far its basic features are:
Capita Nancy some years ago, I can not miss this exciting news without forward: the second annual festival of free culture “At the Age Free” Nancy is scheduled for October 1 and 2.
VIPs will be present this year!
Friday 1 October
At 8:30 p.m. projections Cameo St Sebastien (tariff free, pay what you think right, or pay nothing): Screening of short films in partnership with Kassandre (free movies) and short animated films from the Blender Foundation. Followed by a discussion with Joseph Paris, founder of Kassandre.
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