OpenOffice.org (OOo for short) is a great office suite for Linux and pretty much any other operating system, but can always use improvement. This is especially true for templates and clip art. Fortunately, the open source community provides many add-ons or extensions. Here's a look.
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Konqueror doesn’t pass Acid2 (occasionally)
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Five years ago it was announced that Konqueror is the second browser of all to pass Acid2. Just for fun I thought to check how KHTML is doing these days and ran Acid 2 and 3 with it. Well… how times change…
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Running Commands at Startup in Debian and Ubuntu - The Simplest Approach
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Running custom scripts on startup is a common operation in the Linux community. In my case, when the machine hosting my website needs to be rebooted or even crashes, it is critical that the backend processes that the website depends on start correctly.
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The Case for Gnome Shell
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A couple weeks ago, I wrote some posts on GNOME Shell which included a number of criticisms of the desktop environment that will likely become Ubuntu's default at some point in the future. Jon McCann, lead designer for GNOME Shell, recently got in touch to offer his responses to the problems I found with the new interface. Here's what he had to say.
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UbuntuOne Gets Contacts Mobile Phone Sync Support [But It's Not Free]
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A recent message on the UbuntuOne mailing list announces that Canonical has teamed up with Funambol, an established software stack that synchronizes thousands of mobile phones and other devices who have built a community around different client plugins, virtually supporting the majority of the existing software on all platforms that have contacts (Thunderbird, Outlook, Mac OS X Mail, etc).
Read more »You Be The Judge: Plasma Javascript Jam Session
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The Plasma Javascript Jam Session is a friendly competition that aims to reward creators of original, interesting and beautiful Plasma widgets written in Javascript with some great prizes and community recognition. The competion concluded on March 31st with 11 successful submissions making the deadline.
Read more »Notmuch release 0.1 now available
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The very first release of new email client, which aims to work with millions of messages, indexing, searching and tagging them all. It is written on C and uses Xapian library for very fast searching engine. Also, in comparisong to other email clients, it is divided intro frontend and backend, gaining modularization of functionality.
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First Look – Mandriva 2010.1 beta 1 – Gnome Edition
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The first beta release of Mandriva 2010.1 has been made available for testing. Being fans of the 2010 release (it was, in our opinion, Mandriva's best to date) we were eager to see what kind of progress is being made on their next stable release.
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I have seen the future, and it is GNOME 3
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Today I finally managed to get GNOME Shell installed so I could get a preview of what is to come on the Linux desktop (at least through the eyes of GNOME). GNOME 3 is different. Very different.
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adeskbar, for fun and profit
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I have used wbar in Openbox setups off and on for the past year or so, since I saw it at work with Tiny Core Linux. If you’re GUI-oriented anyway, adeskbar might be a winner for being quicker on the configuration.
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Kopete disconnects from Yahoo
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As long as I am using Kopete, sending messages, etc. everything is as it should be. No connection problems at all. As soon as I let the program go idle, it starts disconnecting every ten minutes, giving an Error 17 message, like clockwork. It always reconnects on it’s own, but as you can see from the screenshot, you could set your watch by when it disconnects from the Yahoo server.
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GNOME 3 System Status Area Mockups
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In GNOME 3, the System Status Area is a place where System Status Indicators represent the status of the system to the user. This is not an area that is variously called the Notification Area or System Tray and should not be used by applications (foreground or background) to indicate their status.
Read more »VBoxManage Lite - A wrapper script around VirtualBox’s ‘VBoxManage’ command
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VBoxManage Lite - A wrapper script around VirtualBox's "VBoxManage" command
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Quick Look at Lucid
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Ubuntu just released the beta 1 version of their new LTS (Long Term Support) Distribution, Lucid 10.04. The theme is based on "light" and it looks great. Here's what to expect and what not to expect when you first install this new flavor of Ubuntu: The first thing you notice when you launch the live CD is Ubuntu's new logo.
Read more »30,000 Virtual Appliance in Service from VirtualBoxImages.com
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When I first found VirtualBox and created my first Virtual Machine VirtualBox was still owned by a small company in Germany. Few people know of the project and fewer thought it was a good idea to build and distribute pre-installed virtual machines.
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