In a sense, the desktop is the best thing that ever happened to the command line. Because a virtual terminal runs in a graphical environment, it boasts all sorts of enhancements that the unadorned shell lacks -- everything from multiple tabs to easy selection of display fonts and background and foreground colors.
Read more »Terminator runs multiple GNOME terminals in the same window
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Adobe Introduces Flash Player 10 Beta with Linux Support
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Adobe® Flash® Player 10, code-named "Astro," introduces new expressive features and visual performance improvements that allow interactive designers and developers to build the richest and most immersive Web experiences. These new capabilities also empower the community to extend Flash Player and to take creativity and interactivity to a new level.
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Fedora 9 hits the streets
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The Fedora Project Tuesday said Fedora 9, a free, open source Linux operating system, is ready for download.
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IPlist Protects Torrent Traffic in Linux
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Free IP-filtering application IPlist protects your BitTorrent downloads from third-party snoopers and blockers by controlling which IP addresses can and cannot connect to your system.
Read more »Welcome to the Linux Command Line Interface Desktop
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TuxTraining.com has covered numerous commandline applications but now it’s time to tie it all together. So Ctrl Alt F6 and get to that command line, because you don’t need no stinkin GUI.
Read more »Predictive text input with Soothsayer
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Soothsayer is a predictive text input system. Many folks reading that sentence will think of the word completion offered by mobile phones. Soothsayer is different from such mobile phone systems in that it tries to use context and other statistical information to offer predictions instead of just presenting a list of words that might match the first few letters you type.
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Fix for OpenSSL/SSH/VPN Vulnerability in Ubuntu 7.04/7.10/8.04
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A weakness has been discovered in the random number generator used by OpenSSL on Debian and Ubuntu systems. As a result of this weakness, certain encryption keys are much more common than they should be, such that an attacker could guess the key through a brute-force attack given minimal knowledge of the system. This particularly affects the use of encryption keys in OpenSSH, OpenVPN
Read more »KMyMoney 0.9 released
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The KMyMoney development team is pleased to announce a major step forward for what has been described as "the easiest personal money tool out there", with the first public availability of a new development release, version 0.9.
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Kumblr - a Lightweight Tumblr Client for KDE
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Tumblr is a popular mini-blogging service. Kumblr is a desktop application written in Python (and aimed at KDE users) that provides a simple, but functional interface to post text to your Tumblog.
Read more »Some Gnome Panel Applets you may not know about!
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Here is a collection of gnome panel applets that I have found in the repositories, installed applets can be viewed and added to your gnome panel via right click on an empty panel space then click "Add to Panel"
Read more »Install Applications in Ubuntu without Internet
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Without an Internet connection, installing applications in Linux is a nightmare because of package dependencies. The aim of this guide is to help install applications in Ubuntu (should work with all apt based distribution with minimal modifications) when there is no internet connection is available.
Read more »Totem Movie Player can play YouTube Videos
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It’s installed by default in Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 and works fabulously! Totem Movie Player now includes a plug-in for searching and playing You Tube videos without leaving the player and without Flash.
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Enable Commercial DVD Playback in Ubuntu
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Like Adobe Flash and proprietary media formats, playback of encrypted DVDs is something that Ubuntu can’t distribute in the default desktop. Adding support for playing your commercial DVD videos in Ubuntu isn’t a difficult task.
Read more »aTunes tries to be the best of two worlds
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Are you looking for a free and open source music player that you can use no matter which operating system you boot or switch to during the day? Meet aTunes, a small competitor to both Amarok and Apple's iTunes. Its name sounds like a hybrid of the two, and it tries to have a unique combination of the best of both user experiences.
Read more »The 2008 Google Summer of Code: 21 Projects I'm Excited About
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The annual Google Summer of Code is upon us again. For the uninformed, that’s when Google pays hundreds of students and hundreds of mentors to work on free software projects, ranging from AbiSource to Zumastor. This is where great projects like the GDebiKDE installer were created. And this year looks even better than before, with 175 organizations and 1125 students.
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