Canonical is looking into selling proprietary software like Adobe's Photoshop and Apple's iTunes within its distribution, Ubuntu. This would undoubtedly be helpful for certain end users wanting to switch to Linux, but is it good for free software in the long run?
Read more »Proprietary Software and Linux. Good, Bad or Somewhere In-between?
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Chrome OS gets faster Zero build
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Chromium hacker Hexxeh has released a faster, USB-bootable build of Google's Chrome OS called Chromium OS Zero. Meanwhile, ArsTechnica interviewed Google's Engineering Director for Chrome OS, Matthew Papakipos on the past and future of Chrome OS. Hexxeh's final build of Chromium OS Zero follows earlier, well-regarded releases of versions including Chromium OS Diet and Cherry.
Read more »OOo: New Print UI now integrated
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Barely one and a half years after the initial plan, a new print UI has now found its way into OpenOffice.org with the integration of CWS printerpullpages into the latest developer milestone DEV300m70.
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Ailurus 10.01.5 is available for use.
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Ailurus is a tool which makes Ubuntu easier to use. By Ailurus you can learn Linux skills, install some nice software, enable some nice third-party repositories and change some GNOME settings.
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Ubuntu: More Apps, Lower Support Costs?
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As Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) nears its April 2010 launch, Canonical is taking steps to make Ubuntu Linux more attractive to business customers. The efforts include new support pricing plus closer relationships with application developers. Here’s some analysis.
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How to install Firefox 3.6 in Ubuntu Karmic/Jaunty/Intrepid/Hardy
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We are going to get the new version 3.6 of firefox today if you want to install this on your ubuntu system use this tutorial (Ubuntu Karmic/Jaunty/Intrepid/Hardy)
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Gnome Activity journal- A tool for easily browsing,finding,tracking files on your computer
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GNOME Activity Journal is not a File Browser but an Activity Browser. It uses Zeitgeist to get information on what files/websites/contacts/etc. you worked with and Tracker to get information about the current state of the files and all sorts of meta-data
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Retro gaming: Dosbox v ScummVM – Who is the champion?
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The idea that Linux users would want to play old MS-DOS games might seem strange to some, whats even stranger for me is the fact that this task needs similar software to do exactly the same thing under the latest Windows versions.
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Wine 1.1.37 Released
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The Wine development release 1.1.37 is now available. What's new in this release: A number of fixes in AVI file support. Several MSXML improvements. A few MSI fixes. Various bug fixes.
The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.
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Ubuntu Help Centre To Get Major Overhaul For Lucid?
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The Ubuntu "Help and Support" system may be getting a overhaul in time for Lucid. Developers feel the majority of users are either simply unaware that the help system exists or find it overly complicated to navigate and draw information from.
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A Look At Ubuntu Lucid Plymouth Themes
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I've finally got Plymouth up and running on Ubuntu Lucid. Well, up and partially running - I only get to see the new Plymouth at shutdown, but considering I have an Nvidia graphics card and only installed Ubuntu Lucid in VirtualBox so far, I'll take what I can get.
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OpenOffice.org is “a piece of crap”–or is it?
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Recently, a report (PDF) on a number of students opinions on OpenOffice.org Writer vs. Microsoft Office 2007 Word and OpenOffice .org Impress vs. Microsoft Office 2007 Powerpoint, whose conclusion is down-right depressing to those of us, who would prefer to see open source software introduced into education.
Read more »Ubuntu Tweak 0.5 – Making life easier in Ubuntu
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today i want to tell you about an application for Ubuntu, it’s an application that i would recommend to every Ubuntu user, newbie or pro because it makes life in Ubuntu a lot easier. It’s called Ubuntu tweak.
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Fun with Boxee for Linux (Beta)
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Back in 2008, I looked at Boxee on the Apple TV. I thought this was a good time to take a look at Linux.
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The Linux That Blew My Mind
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I have always been searching for some amazing stuff from the linux world. And this time i was thunderstruck by one of them and that is Nimblex Linux.
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