I've had a couple of very pleasant surprises with the Netbook Remix of the Lucid Release Candidate this weeend.
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Thoughts on Nautilus
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With the release of Nautilus-Elementary 2.30, I've been thinking quite a bit about File Browsers. I did a comparison of the 4 file browsers I see the most often, but now I'd like to focus a bit more on just Nautilus and Nautilus-Elementary.
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Valve Pulls Its Unreleased Linux Client From Server
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The past few days we have been reporting on Valve's Steam client coming to Linux (and some of the Source Engine games too) soon as we had found Linux references within the Steam Mac OS X client and then other Linux references. We even ended up finding the unreleased Linux files on the Valve servers.
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6 of the Best Free Linux Simple Backup Software
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Surveys suggest that up to 90% of home computer users do not back up their data. That is a pretty frightening statistic bearing in mind how valuable and precious users' files are. Computer users who do not backup their files are at risk of losing all of their personal and irreplaceable documents. The hard drive in a PC can malfunction at any time, sometimes without any warning at all.
Read more »PCLinuxOS 2010 Runs Against, But Falls Short Of Ubuntu 10.04
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While a bulk of the Linux community is engaged by the release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS next week, another popular Linux distribution put out its first major update of 2010 a few days ago.
Read more »Write Bengali (and other Indic languages) in debian squeeze
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Linux is armed with Intelligent Input Bus (IBus) now. This is an input method (IM) framework for multilingual input in *nix like operating systems. Having a bus like architecture it is called I"Bus" Two major components of IBus are Input method engine (IME) and ibus-daemon. ibus-daemon provides a system tray configuration utility to select the Input method engine (IME) and then the language.
Read more »Ubuntu's Lucid Lynx: screenshots
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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx is slated for release later this week and arrives as the harbinger of a new look for the distribution. ZDNet Australia has installed the release candidate to give you a peek.
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Ubuntu 10.04: Where Ubuntu goes from here
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The new Ubuntu release is almost here and I like the Ubuntu 10.04 desktop a lot. As a Linux expert, it's a little too simple for my personal tastes, but it's the best beginner Linux out of the box I've ever seen.
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Preview Ubuntu Firefox start page
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The latest, and final, iteration is, I'm sure you will agree, easily the best looking this cycle – if not in Ubuntu’s history. To my mind only the Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron start page looked as wholesomely designed as this.
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Lucid Lynx Week
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It's a big week in Linux Land as Lucid Lynx is released on Thursday (4/29). I've been doing this long enough, and things went well enough on the test machine, I decided to jump the gun and upgrade to the final.
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Ubuntu 10.04 Is Here: Shuttleworth Checks In
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It's official: Ubuntu 10.04 Long Term Support is out, and this particular blogger was privy to the press conference about it. Both Mark Shuttleworth and Jane Silber discussed the plans and progress of new operating system, and then fielded some Q and A. With big news being that over 80 ISVs are supporting Ubuntu officially here's what it means for the desktop users and Canonical as a whole...
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How do you change the boot splash screen image for 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
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This tutorial will explain How to change the boot splash screen (Plymouth's boot image, or color, behind the "Ubuntu..." logo from purple to whatever you would like) image for 10.04
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PCLinuxOS 2010 Torrent Links posted on Linux Tracker
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PCLinuxOS 2010 torrent links are now available on Linux Tracker including KDE, Gnome, KDE MiniMe, LXDE, LXDE Mini, Gnome Zen Mini and XFCE Phoenix editions. If you have already downloaded PCLinuxOS please help seed the torrents. Thanks!
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Introducing MaheshaBSD
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Juraj Sipos contacted me earlier this week about a project he has been working on and now available for downloading: MaheshaBSD
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Thoughts on Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04
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Since about Christmas my primary machine for day-to-day computing has been an Acer Aspire One D250. So of course the first thing I wanted to do is replace the stock Windows 7 with Ubuntu Netbook Edition.
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