FOSSwire

Peter walks you through how to use Fotowall - an interesting application that allows you to quickly make collages from your photos. These collages can then be used as a desktop background.

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This month marks 25 years since the beginning of the GNU Project, Richard Stallman's ambitious project to build a completely free software operating system.

For GNU, and its parent organisation the Free Software Foundation, this is a significant anniversary and of course a good opportunity to further spread the message of their cause.

Interestingly, the FSF have recruited Stephen Fry to produce a five-minute film on free software …

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The KDE desktop environment has a shared bookmarks store that can be used across different KDE applications. Most commonly, though, you will use it to store your favourite websites in Konqueror.

Coming back to your bookmarks later is usually done by accessing the Bookmarks menu within Konqueror, navigating the menus and clicking a bookmark.

KIO_Bookmarks, however, offers an alternative interface to your KDE bookmarks that you can access as …

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So maybe you have a backup solution in place and running periodically to make sure your databases are safe. At any point in time if the system fails, you're prepared. But what if, right before a backup, an unruly visitor finds an expolit on your application and wipes out a few tables? Your "backup" is then no longer a backup you can rely on.

How do we fix this? Versioning. …

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