OpenOffice.org isn't the only game in town for open source word processing. One of the best, and underexposed, open word processors is AbiWord.
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Qt Multimedia/Mobility vs. Phonon: FIGHT!!!
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Well it's not really like that, but I guess those involved can think about it a bit like that at times!
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Wine 1.2-rc2 Released
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The Wine development release 1.2-rc2 is now available.
There are no new features in this release, only bug fixes, since we are in code freeze. If you find a new feature that's a bug.
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What's the faster browser on Earth?
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We seem to be having a browser week here at OMG! towers. With all that in mind I couldn’t help but stoke the ever-tender embers of one question that continues to be a red-hot topic: “What is the fastest browser on Linux?”
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I've Installed Linux, Now What?
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Time to enter the Wayback Machine to an experience I had with a new Linux user and compare it to today's more tech savvy audience. The year was 1997 and I had settled in for the evening with my favorite beverage and a bit of channel flipping, when I received a telephone call from a guy who'd installed Linux on his computer.
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HTML5 Video on Ubuntu
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With my professional life having quieted down a lot recently, I finally got a chance to play with something I've been meaning to try since the winter: HTML5 video on Ubuntu. The results made me pretty happy.
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Five Usability Improvements in Ubuntu 10.04
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Recent Ubuntu releases have introduced major changes, including a new theme, a new application stack and - gasp - a new position for window buttons. But Karmic and Lucid also included a number of tiny usability enhancements that you might not have noticed, but which are central to making Ubuntu a Linux distribution for human beings. Here's a look at five of them.
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GIMP vs. The World
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High-end graphics editing in the commercial world has been defined by Adobe's Photoshop. It is so dominant and so prevalent that the name is frequently used as a verb, as in the line from the movie Cheaper by the Dozen "We'll photoshop her in later." In the free and open source world the standard of comparison is GIMP.
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KOffice 2.2 Released
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This release brings an unprecedented number of new features and bugfixes. Kexi, the database management application, is back. New framework for effects on shapes, with 11 effects included. New import filters for MS Office 2007 formats. There are also many performance improvements and improvements to OpenDocument Format (ODF) handling.
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Fedora 13 – Linux for Applephobes
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With its music store and cloud syncing services, Ubuntu 10.04 tends to eclipse Fedora in the minds of many. Not that Fedora project leader Paul Frields minds. Fedora is intended "first and foremost for users interested in and capable of contributing to open source."
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Google releases Chrome 5.0 for Windows, Mac OS X & Linux
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Four months after the release of version 4.0 for Windows, Google has announced the availability of Chrome 5.0 for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux - the first stable release to be available on all three major platforms
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The Trinity Project Picks Up Where KDE 3.5.10 Left Off
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First impressions? It's super fast, just as I remember KDE 3.x best for. It really didn't feel like I was running the system from the CD. As for the rest, indulge yourselves into these screenshots I made.
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Top 5 Free Linux Distributions for Desktop Computing in 2010
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A typical desktop Linux distribution comprises a Linux kernel, GNU tools and libraries, additional software, documentation, a window system and window manager. We delved into the Linux distributions for desktop computing and queued up a list of top 5 distros.
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ClamAV 0.96.1 fixes DoS vulnerabilities
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Version 0.96.1 of ClamAV, the free open source anti-virus toolkit, fixes bugs which cause it to crash when faced with crafted PDF and PE files
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Ubuntu Linux Netbook Edition 10.04 Review
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A full review of Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04. I’ve been reviewing various Ubuntu derivatives and this week I thought it would be fun to take a look at the netbook version of Ubuntu. Ubuntu Netbook Edition used to be called Ubuntu Netbook Remix, but Canonical changed the name once this distro became an official edition of Ubuntu.
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