Googlers Sundar Pichai and Linus Upson announced on Wednesday that the company was embarking on a new project: the Google Chrome Operating System. After the Web browser launched last year, many people anticipated a Google OS as the company's next move.

Google Chrome OS is open source and will initially be intended for netbooks; however, the system is said to be equipped to power large desktop systems as well. The three main aspects of the operating system are speed, simplicity, and security. Although Google will construct its own windowing system, the new OS will run on top of the kernel from the open source Linux OS.

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MySpace announced yesterday that it is allowing its users to share content from their profiles with any other Web site. This is the first effort of MySpace to support the data portability movement. Up to this point, social networks such as MySpace have strictly enforced a “walled garden” approach in which users were essentially locked into their site.

MySpace has signed agreements with Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket, and Twitter thus far. In the next several weeks, MySpace users will have the ability to add their MySpace data to those sites by simply clicking a button.

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There has been a constant growth of the number of Python based web frameworks. A possible explanation could be Ruby’s success on Rails. Two of most used open source web application frameworks for Python are Django and Turbogears. This tutorial on the installation of Django is meant to help the newcomers, because both Django and Turbogears installation processes are not quite easy to complete.

Earlier I had compared Best PHP frameworks and there I had bragged about How great Django programmer I am (which was a little exaggerated IMO) but anyway I was thinking of writing some Django HowTo and felt to write on Installing Django on Windows. Honestly I don't know why would you like to work on windows with Django but anyway, if you want than this is what you have to do.

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After covering alternatives to itunes, this is my second article on Linux based softwares related to music.

I feels Open source is a set of principles that seems the perfect framework for hobby development. And indeed, several open source programs targeted at hobbyists exist. Regardless of whether it's programmers, radio amateurs or painters that we are talking about, there is some Linux-based solution for almost every need. Musicians have their own share of attention, too.

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FVWM is one of the big mysteries of the open source world. It is an extremely versatile window manager, configurable up to every possible aspect. However, many beginners are somewhat scared because they do not know exactly how to go about learning to use FVWM. This is what we will talk about here.

The heart of FVWM's configuration is the ~/.fvwm2rc file. This is where every option is stored. When FVWM is launched, the information from the file is read, and FVWM runs according to it. What can be customized? Essentially, everything, from the way windows look to the way they behave. FVWM imposes no policy: the user is free to configure what happens when a button on the titlebar is pressed, or which mouse button is used to minimize a window by clicking on the titlebar.

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