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Enabling Compiz Fusion On A Fedora 13 GNOME Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce 8100)

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This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on a Fedora 13 GNOME desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8100 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop. I will use the free nouveau driver in this tutorial instead of the proprietary NVIDIA driver.

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5 steps to making your first KDE Python Plasmoid

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For a long time desktop widgets have been a way to provide useful, although usually simple, applications that sit on the desktop and out of the way. KDE has taken these desktop widgets to a whole new level with Plasma. In this tutorial we will look at how to get a simple Plasmoid created using Python.

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First Release Candidate of KDE Software Compilation 4.5

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In the month since the second beta the KDE community has fixed hundreds of bugs. Development of features has been frozen for a while now and the Software Compilation is at the point where it needs a good testing to shake out the last issues. The final release of KDE SC 4.5 is expected for August 4th.

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The Perfect Desktop - Fedora 13 i686 (GNOME)

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This tutorial shows how you can set up a Fedora 13 desktop (GNOME) that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

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Created by falko 11 years 50 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 50 weeks ago
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A Quick Look at KDE SC 4.5 Beta 1

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The latest in the 4.x series of the KDE Software Compilation is due to be released in early August 2010. With the first beta of this release recently unleashed, I thought I'd download the openSuse packages and see what 4.5's got in store for us.

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Renaming Photos with digiKam

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Giving your photos meaningful names makes it significantly easier to keep tabs on them. Of course, renaming each and every photo by hand is not particularly practical, especially if you take dozens or even hundreds of photos each day. This is when digiKam’s Rename feature can come in rather handy.

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Sneak preview for coming KDE SC 4.5

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KDE SC 4.5 is in feature freeze right now. Therefore, I decided to share some of early screenshots with you. In general there are no major changes. It is all about polishing and fixing bugs. There is a lot of under-hood changes in libraries which as enduser we cannot see. KDE SC will be released in August 2010. Now I will let you enjoy the screenshots.

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Created by JRepin 12 years 3 days ago – Made popular 12 years 3 days ago
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On-demand package installation in openSUSE 11.3

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You most probably have already run into this at least once. You use the computer, try to do something and you get an error message saying "sorry, application foo is not installed", "the required plugin bar is not installed" or similar. And that's it, there it stops. You have to find out what package the required functionality is in, install it manually and try again. Like if the computer couldn't ask "but maybe I can install that, do you want me to try?" and handle it itself.

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Created by JRepin 12 years 4 days ago – Made popular 12 years 3 days ago
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So, You Want to Run FreeBSD?

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After spending nearly a month to get this all put together, this is my v 1.0 "Crash Course" guide to setting up FreeBSD as a desktop system. FreeBSD is a free software operating system similar to GNU/Linux, with a somewhat different design philosophy.

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Screenshots of Debian-based PureOS

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Built with Linux-Live scripts 6.2.9, the Debian-based PureOS 2.0 Linux distro has been recently released. This distro and live CD feature the KDE 4.3.4 desktop environment, Linux kernel 2.6.33 w/ Squashfs 3.4 and LZMA. Popular applications you'll find on PureOS include FileZilla, GIMP, Iceweasel, K3B, Songbird, VLC, and much more. Check out the screenshots.

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Red Hat moves into desktop virtualization

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Open source enterprise software company Red Hat has updated its virtualization platform, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (REV), to include support for desktop virtualization, the company announced Monday.

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Created by Marcin 12 years 8 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 8 weeks ago
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Minimalist Linux desktops

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Lightweight desktops have a multitude of uses, on netbooks, for mobile devices, for older hardware, for users with limited requirements of their systems, for connecting to applications in the cloud, and for bare knuckled programmers who prefer to work closer to the metal.

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Created by cendrars 12 years 8 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 8 weeks ago
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Screenshots of Ubuntu-based Media Center Element 1.1

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Element 1.1 is a distribution designed specifically for home theater or media center computers. This is obvious when you boot up Element 1.1 which brings users Firefox, Transmission, XBMC, Decibel Audio Player, VLC, and many other useful multimedia apps together on this customized version of the XFCE desktop.

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Desktops and their performance

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Phoronix has used its Test Suite to compare the memory and power consumption of different desktop environments. However, the results should be handled with care.

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Created by credativ 12 years 11 weeks ago – Made popular 12 years 11 weeks ago
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The Perennial Year of the Linux Desktop

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It's become a tradition (and a bit of a running joke) for bloggers and tech pundits to declare that this year (whatever year you're in) will be The Year of the Linux Desktop. So in following with that tradition, I'm here to declare that 2010 will be The Year of the Linux Desktop, but not in the sense that many other bloggers have stated.

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