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The benefits of Open Source Software
How can you benefit from Open Source Software? "You" can either be a developer or a business and my latest article on the The Trinidad Guardian's website goes into detail about this.
You can read the article here: How can you benefit from Open Source Software?
Installing Skype on OpenSuse Linux
This page was very useful for troubleshooting why Skype wouldn’t run straight off the website installation for OpenSuse. On Linux Skype is a 32-bit application, but my version of OpenSuse was 64-bit, so this page explains the steps needed to install the missing libraries that would allow a 32-bit Skype application to run.
Playing Restricted Multimedia Formats With OpenSuse Linux
The OpenSuse Community Restricted Multimedia Formats page was ultra useful today for getting my xvid-encoded videos playing smoothly on my OpenSuse installation. A nice extra surprise was that it smoothened the video on Flash playing within my browser. I was getting annoyed by jerky YouTube playbacks, and this ymp file for my Gnome environment seemed to fix this.