What artists want in software: An ode to Dream Studio

I am an artist and the sole maintainer of Dream Studio, a free[he]nbsp[/he]and open source creative system.[he]nbsp[/he]Though most of the software is maintained by others who maintain their own Ubuntu PPAs, which are included with Dream Studio by default (which is, itself, based on standard desktop Ubuntu), I create the default themes and overall look of Dream Studio, package the various multimedia categories, create the installer disc (and Dream Studio for Ubuntu), and write a couple of the programs and scripts included with the distribution.I[he]#039[/he]ve been a professional musician for 12 years and recording music for 17.[he]nbsp[/he]I[he]#039[/he]ve also been creating graphics like[he]nbsp[/he]band logos, concert posters, T-shirt designs, and CD packages for 10 years, and making music videos for the last 5. I feel I have a pretty good idea of what artists want in a creative studio, and[he]nbsp[/he]because I believe in open source, I[he]nbsp[/he]want to share the tools I use personally with the whole world, as so much software has been shared with me.
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“The Cave” Is Coming To Steam On Linux Next Week

Planned for release next week, on 23 January, is “The Cave” game and there will be a native Linux port when it debuts on Valve’s Steam platform…
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Storage from a UX designers perspective

Designing interfaces to deal with storage technologies is not only hard, it’s terrifying. This is especially true if you aren’t familiar with the storage technologies involved and have to learn how they work on-the-fly, even if you don’t have easy or any access to work with some of these (typically quite expensive) technologies first-hand.
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Linux Lite 1.0.4 CFV Released

Linux Lite 1.0.4 CFV (community feedback version) for 32bit with Pae support has been released. Since this release implements many significant changes, to facilitate feedback this will be the last release before the 1.0.4 final. It’s more a beta than a RC.
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jQuery 1.9 prepares developers for the dropping of old IE support

jQuery 1.9 clears the decks on the JavaScript library as the developers prepare to drop support for Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 in the forthcoming jQuery 2.0 which has just entered beta
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Google– We Don’t Care, We Don’t Have To

Google blacklisted the entire iSocket ad network because their mighty cadre of malware scanners thought they detected some Badware. That’s what Google calls it, Badware. Like weird parents who try to control their kids with scary stories: “The Badware’s gonna GET you if you DON’T watch OUT.” Or your crazy auntie (me) running around singing “Nananananananana BADWARE.”[size=11]Not directly FOSS related but of interest to our readers I believe – Scott[/size]
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Advanced Vim registers

Registers in Vim are best thought of as scratch spaces for text, some of which are automatically filled by the editor in response to certain actions. Learning how to use registers fluently has a lot of subtle benefits, although it takes some getting used to because the syntax for using them is a little awkward.
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Double Joy: A Good Day For Linux Game Announcements

Not only has the immensely popular Crusader Kings II from Paradox gone on sale on Steam, but Double Fine has announced that their adventure game disguised as a side-scrolling platformer, The Cave, will also be on sale on Steam from the 23d of January. With any luck this sets the tone for the rest of the year.
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Xvidcap Records Screen Activity Nearly Effortlessly

Xvidcap is a small tool to capture whatever goes on within the borders of an X-Windows display. It lets you capture what you do either as individual frames or as an MPEG video. Recording your computing activity keystroke by keystroke is not a need every computer user has. However, this is an ideal tool if you need to make a visual record of the steps you take to complete a computing task.
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Development Release: Linux Lite 1.0.4 CFV

Jerry Bezencon has announced the release of Linux Lite 1.0.4, an Ubuntu variant with a customised Xfce as the preferred desktop: “Linux Lite 1.0.4 CFV (community feedback version) for 32-bit computer systems with PAE support has been released. This release implements many significant changes including a new theme,….


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Memo to Linux Devs: Focus on Design, Not Technology

In the open source channel, many developers could stand to focus a bit less on technology itself, and a bit more on making products look and feel smart, intuitive and elegant–especially when it comes to communicating with end users. Most Linux distributions don’t get this right, but Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, shines as an outlier. Here’s how.
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Distribution Release: CentOS 5.9

Karanbir Singh has announced the release of CentOS 5.9, a Linux distribution built from the source code of the recently-released Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.9: “We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS 5.9 for i386 and x86_64 architectures. New features: the UOP added native….


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