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Ten Reasons To Dump Windows [III]

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I’d like to invite you to read the last of three articles from the “Dump Windows” saga of writings. Two previous articles (part I, part II) stirred up quite a controversy and a variety of opinions. With this article I’m hoping for calmer and more meritorious responses.

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Windows vs Ubuntu - why switch?

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I want to re-install my work PC - get rid of Windows and install Ubuntu. Here’s why…

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Xara Xtreme - a Test Drive

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Xara Xtreme is a graphics drawing application which has been available on the Linux desktop for about a year now. But I just now got around to trying it. For the obvious reason, and I'm sure many of you familiar with graphics on Linux would concur, that I didn't think yet another vector graphics editor was anything to jump out of my chair for.

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Securely Delete Files in Linux

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It used to be that only paranoids cared a whit about shredding their data—or their office paperwork, for that matter. But these days, there really are people out there just waiting for you to slip up and expose your private data. Fortunately, if you're running Linux, deleting sensitive information is fast and easy with the 'shred' utility.

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Review: SuperGamerVL

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SuperGamerVL (aka SuperGamer3) is the next generation in Linux gaming live dvd's that aims to bring the fun of Linux gaming to a PC near you and help Linux geeks everywhere demonstrate to their friends that Linux really is fun and can be used for gaming. And they can do all this without installing Linux.

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More Music to your Ears

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In a continuation of my last post, I’m going to check out a few more music players. Again, these are development versions, and they might be different from the current stable versions.

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The $139 Linux PC

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I wonder if these people realize they can buy a brand new computer for $139. Granted the hardware is a bit dated by today’s standards but it’s probably light years ahead of what they are running Windows ‘98 on.

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From Fedora, through Ubuntu and Slackware, getting close to ZenWalk

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In the "if it ain't broke, then why the hell are you fixing it?" department, maybe I should refocus my energies on Debian and not worry so much about Fedora/Red Hat. But there's something about Fedora/RHEL that is calling to me.

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Unix/Linux Command Cheat Sheet

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In an attempt to find a good Unix reference for you FOSSwire readers, I was unsuccessful at finding a decent one on the Internet. So, why not make one?

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All the questions you may have about Thunderbird, answered by Mitchell Baker - Standblog

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"...Mitchell has put together several posts on her blog to answer questions that the community may have. I've digested them below. Enjoy....

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Portrait of a Linux iPhone-killer wannabe

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In the race to be the first "iPhone killer," the most unlikely but perhaps most intriguing candidate is based on a new Linux platform with the peculiar name OpenMoko.

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Azureus vs. KTorrent

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BitTorrent is popular peer-to-peer sharing communication protocol used for transferring all kind of files over the Internet. Two of the most popular BitTorrent clients for Linux are Azureus and KTorrent. If you're looking for a robust, fast, simple, and powerful BitTorrent client, you will probably go with KTorrent.

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Troubleshooting Linux Audio, Part 2

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In my last installment of this series I introduced a variety of GUI-based tools that can help you discover more about your system to help identify potentially troublesome components. This week we'll look at some of the command-line utilities that do similar work.

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Linux Vs. Mac: Which Is The Better Alternative To Microsoft Windows?

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If you're a Vista-wary Windows user who would rather switch than fight, should you move to a Linux distro or Apple's OS X? We asked a Mac fan and a Linux advocate to lead a guided tour of each OS.

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Linux-based e-book boasts "brightest and fastest" e-paper

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A France-based e-book specialist is readying a Linux-powered successor to its earlier Windows CE-based e-book reader devices. Bookeen's third-generation Cybook device, featuring "groundbreaking" Vizplex e-paper technology from E Ink, is a customized version of a Chinese-language e-book reader that debuted last December.

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