KDE and GNOME pile on the eye candy and grow ever-larger and hungrier of system resources. Thankfully, Linux users who prefer a lightweight desktop environment have a number of great choices. Today Juliet Kemp takes us on a tour of the attractive, nimble, and functional Xfce desktop.
Read more »Xfce Desktop: Less Lard, Less Bling, More Usability
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Krusader Conquers Linux Files
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Linux offers users numerous separate apps to manage files and handle system-related computing chores, but Krusader packages these functions in its own tool sets.
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Never reboot again with Ksplice
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If you use Linux, you don't reboot very often. In my case, the only time I reboot is when I upgrade a system. But suppose, just suppose you didn't have to do that. Suppose you could even make major updates and never have to reboot your system? You don't have to imagine it anymore. Ksplice delivers the goods.
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Power Up Linux GUI Apps
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One big disadvantage of GUI apps is that you’re mostly limited to whatever the interface lets you do — unless you want to re-code the interface yourself, that is. For instance, how can you use a photo viewer to see all of the photos you put in various places on your disk this past Monday?
Read more »MultiCD Builds a Multi-boot CD / DVD With Many Different Linux Distributions And / Or Utilities
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multicd.sh is a shell script designed to build a multiboot CD / DVD image containing many different Linux distributions and/or utilities.
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Anjal: GNOME's Evolution for Netbooks
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One unforeseen benefit of the rise of netbooks is the rethinking of desktop interfaces. Compared to workstations, netbooks have smaller screens and less memory, and developers generally assume that users do less demanding tasks on them. Few netbook interfaces illustrate this re-examination better than Anjal.
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Guayadeque - Nice music player
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Music Player with the aims to be intuitive, easy to use and fast even for huge music collections. Developed for Linux with wxWidgets for GTK under Gnome.
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KTorrent: KDE’s BitTorrent client
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Many people use BitTorrent clients to download popular movies, music, and television shows for free...In order to download the files associated with torrents, you need a BitTorrent client. KTorrent, a KDE project, is a feature-rich client that is completely self-contained from the moment you start searching for torrents until the last chunk finishes downloading.
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Dealing with bugs in Linux
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One of the things I’ve always liked about using Linux is the feeling that my input is actually important. Either by way of giving input to the developers directly or (more importantly) reporting bugs that inevitably appear on a system. It’s the latter of the two that help Linux. But to the new user, these bugs are nothing more than a nuisance, getting in the way of things “just working”.
Read more »Sketchpad (beta) (HTML5 drawing program)
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Sketchpad uses the little-known [canvas] tag to provide users and publishers with full control over the presentational qualities of their work. Directly accessing vector graphics, the [canvas] tag gives publishers real-access to their users' display. The [canvas] tag will be available in HTML 5.0.
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Ubuntu 9.10 and GNOME 2.28: Advancing Past Meh
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Many eons ago, GNOME 1.4 still lived, and it was good. It was extremely configurable and hackable. You could use either Enlightenment or Sawfish as the window manager, and could customize it to your heart's content. And then tragedy struck: GNOME 2.0 was born.
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How to Install KDE SC 4.4 on Ubuntu 9.10
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After months of hard work, the KDE Software Compilation (SC) suite reached version 4.4.0 on February 9th, 2010 – implementing over 1,400 new feature requests, new applications, new effects, eliminating over 7,00 bugs.
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Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 3.1.x On An OpenSUSE 11.2 Server
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This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun VirtualBox 3.1.x on a headless OpenSUSE 11.2 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment.
Read more »How to setup MPD with PulseAudio independent on X
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This tutorial is meant for Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, but it might work in earlier or later versions as well.
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Kolibri: 1.44Mb of cute
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This might not be of interest to you, but to me, it’s a miracle of modern science.
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