I'm no kernel hacker. Hell, I'm no regular hacker. I don't know exactly (or even slightly) how they do it, but after a crash while testing suspend/resume in the 2.6.32.21 kernel while running Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid — still in beta as of this writing — I rebooted and got that little "something crashed" icon in my upper panel. It asked me if I wanted to file a bug report, and I did.
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Bombono DVD Open-Source DVD Authoring Software
Bombono is a simple to use DVD authoring program that doesn't have the steep learning curve of many others in its field. Or in the words of the Web site: “Bombono DVD is a DVD authoring program for Linux. It is easy to use and has nice and clean GUI (Gtk).” Also from the Web site, the main features of Bombono DVD are...
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New storage options for Anaconda on Fedora 13
Fedora 13 Beta has just been released for testing and bug reporting, with the stable version slated for release in May.
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Welcome PCLinuxOS 2010
Good news for all who are looking for a Mature "Just-Works" Desktop. PCLinuxOS 2010 bandwagon is released.
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A minty experience leaves a pleasant taste.
This is a story of a transition from windows to Linux. This person is one of your typical computer users. Very smart in many things. A respected English instructor at a well known University and very good at their work. Unfortunately, unwilling and unable to spend time learning how to properly care for their computer.
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Returning to Linux, Round 2...Mint
I had reviewed Mint previous, way back with Bianca. I had a great interview with Clem. I did enjoy the package back then. I saw recently that the community edition of XFCE had been released, so I downloaded and jumped through the basics of installing via the standard Ubuntu flair.
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The Ubuntu Software Center- An under utilized asset?
Sometime back I had talked about another use to which the Ubuntu Software Center can be used to help fund app developers. I probably did not articulate my thoughts well so maybe reechoing it here will do some good.
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Asunder - Graphical audio CD ripper and encoder
Asunder is a graphical Audio CD ripper and encoder for Linux. You can use it to save tracks from an Audio CD as any of WAV, MP3, OGG, FLAC, WavPack, Musepack, AAC, and Monkey's Audio files.
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First Contact Review: Ubuntu 10.04 Beta2
I recently downloaded Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Linx Beta2 for testing. I love what I am seeing, so I want to share some of my initial impressions on what seems to be a release that could mark a milestone in Ubuntu's history.
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The opensource game Speed Dreams 1.4.0 is released
Speed Dreams 1.4.0 is finally released. the new version of this game comes with many new features like 3 amazing fine tuned and balanced new car sets, 3 exciting new tracks and many visually improved ones,
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UbuntuOne Music Store: How a music service should be
One of my biggest complains about Apple is iTunes. Why? Because everything the UbuntuOne Music Store is is what iTunes is not.
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Distributed Replicated Storage Across 4 Nodes With GlusterFS On Mandriva 2010.0
This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Mandriva 2010.0) to a distributed replicated storage with GlusterFS. Nodes 1 and 2 (replication1) as well as 3 and 4 (replication2) will mirror each other, and replication1 and replication2 will be combined to one larger storage server (distribution). Basically, this is RAID10 over network.
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aTunes is a full-featured audio player and manager, developed in Java programming language, so it can be executed on different platforms: Windows, Linux and Unix-like systems
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Create Ringtones For Your iPhone Using Linux
In this howto, I’ll show how to create and install ringtones on your iPhone. There are a bunch of howtos around the internets on how to do this using Windows, and possibly on Linux with jailbroken phones. However, I haven’t seen one showing how to do it using just Linux, without having to jailbreak your phone. So here goes.
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A Look at Gnome Activity Journal
One of the major new features to expect in future versions of Ubuntu is Gnome Activity Journal, which brings a very refreshing approach to the way users interact with files and data. Here's a look at how it works.
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