Club Linux Coffs Harbour

My studious partner wants to listen to a Latin podcast on her audio player. She has a bit of catch up to do, there are hundred probably thousands of mp3 files to download. Now I know there are all kinds of graphical download plugins and managers I could use but I prefer something a bit quicker and more simple.

Happy New Year!

Whilst recovering from mixing my drinks I found an 'article' on some annoying website (via Slashdot) listing "The 10 Coolest Open Source Products Of 2008" to save you expending your time clicking through all 11 pages here is the list:

Hi All,

Just thought I'd open a thread for us to provide suggestions, links and recomendations to open source video editing solutions. I'd prefer to stick to linux as this is the Club Linux website, but I know a few people are interested in making stuff work on their Microsoft machines.

I couldn't remember the name of the gnome video editing project today, so here it is:

http://www.diva-project.org/

I expect there are a fair few of you who have bought one of those cheap MP3 players from The Good Guys or WOW. I know I have one which cost me about 30 bucks and plays half an hour of audio which gets me to work and back on my bicycle.

Slashdot has been discussing this article:

Becoming a Linux OEM: A Roadmap

Which got me thinking... The Mid-North Coast could really do with a computer recycler. Matthew mentioned Computerbank, they seem to have a few outfits around the place but none that I know hereabouts. The general idea is to get old computers, stick linux on them and get them back into the community for as little money as possible!
Simple hey?

Thought I should post links to some of the things we discussed at our last meeting. If you can remember something I've missed, add more in the comments.

Backporting is the practice of applying improvements from recent versions of software to older versions.  Where individual software packages are concerned this is often done to add critical bug fixes to an older version of a program in a stable system, without risking the introduction of other bugs by upgrading the entire package.  

It is also common for people to backport a new version of a program in it's entirety to run on an older system.  An article on Newsforge has alerted me to a site containing backports of shiny new software for the latest stable version of Mandriva.

A good selection of tutorials for photographers.

Ubuntu have compiled a useful "List Of Open-source Programs for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems", highlighting the best one or two applications for each category of software. As most of these run on both Windows and GNU/Linux based systems, this list has the dual purpose of helping your friends break the non-free software habit, and also serves as a handy reference for people looking for best-of-breed software regardless of their operating system.

Check here before buying a printer!