Mats Geier known as “Husse” has passed away. Husse was a member of Linuxmint team : "Many of you knew him as “Husse”. He was everywhere, especially on the forums, making sure everyone was welcome and that every question was answered. I remember he used to keep an eye on the “unanswered threads” list and would even reply to some of my team announcements with “replied” just to make sure it wasn’t getting in the way of him supporting everybody that might need it. He was also taking care of the weekly newsletter and he was starting to triage bugs on Launchpad. Husse was also helping with the testing of the ISOs as much as he could and he was a very important member of our team. When the community

 

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Banshee 1.5.5 was just released, the new release comes with many new features and improvements, more than 26 bugs were fixed since the last release. The new features included in this version are gapless playback, a grid album browser, and a YouTube extension.

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Tar 1.23 is released, the new release fixed many bugs and comes with new commad line and improvements. In the new version we will find for example that the record size auto detection has been improved also improved behavior if some files were removed during incremental dumps, for the command line we find tow new commands added , --level and --warning.

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VortexBox is a free, open source (GPL v3), quick-install ISO that turns your unused computer into an easy-to-use music server/jukebox. Once VortexBox has been loaded on an unused PC, it will automatically rip CDs to FLAC and MP3 files, ID3 tag the files , and download the cover art. Vortexbox will then serve the files to network  media players such as Logitech Squeezebox, Sonos, or Linn. The music files can also be streamed to a Windows or Mac OSX system.

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Frugalware is a general-purpose Linux distribution designed for intermediate users who are not afraid of text mode. "The Frugalware Philosophy" is about simplicity, multimedia, and design. The authors try to make Frugalware as simple as possible while not forgetting to keep it comfortable. Frugalware uses Judd Vinet's pacman package manager.

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