We laid our hands on all the three biggies—Ubuntu 9.10, Mandriva 2010 and openSUSE 11.2—and pitted them against each other. What followed was the battle of the century, as each distro pulled off one unique trick after another to stay on top of the game.
Read more »The Ultimate Distro Showdown: Ubuntu 9.10 vs openSUSE 11.2 vs Mandriva 2010
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Three console audio mixers
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I mentioned byobu the other day, and a few days before I mentioned a slew of audio players for the console. Here’s a mis-mash of those ideas, with three audio mixers running inside the Ubuntu version of byobu.
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Arora web browser review
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Arora is a simple and lightweight cross-platform web browser based on the WebKit web browser engine, which has a small memory footprint. It can do some things that the more sophisticated web browsers can do.
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Designing Pages in OpenOffice.org Writer
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I'm sure that most people hardly think about page options in OpenOffice.org Writer. The average person may change the paper orientation from portrait to landscape, or narrow the margins to squeeze more words into a page, but not much else.
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5 Fresh Gnome GTK Themes To Start 2010 With A New Look
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Time to spice up your Gnome desktop with a fresh new theme and start of a new year is a perfect time for that. Below is a small list of fresh new themes. This time it looks like they’re all on the darker side – purely by coincidence.
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sidux 2009-04 Brings KDE SC 4.3.4 and Linux Kernel 2.6.32.2
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On the last day of 2009, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann uploaded and released the latest version of the sidux Linux-based operating system (codename "Moros").
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Ubuntu 9.10 Review
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It’s been a couple of months since the release of the latest and greatest of Ubuntu, Karmic Koala and while we’ve been busy building servers based on the this release we can say with out a doubt it just keeps getting better.
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Six office alternatives
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Microsoft will release Office 2010 in June but until then there are some great alternatives. In June Microsoft will release a final version of its Office 2010 productivity suite. Naturally many users will upgrade, at substantial cost, to the latest version of the popular Office suite, but for those not so eager to hand over their money to Microsoft there are still many great alternatives.
Read more »How to Set your Ubuntu Wallpaper as the bootsplash and login screen background
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If you have noticed, Ubuntu Karmic comes with a new xsplash that allows you to set custom wallpaper as the background. Not only is it more visually appealing, it is also much easier to customize than the previous usplash. In this article, we are going to do some thing more interesting – change the bootsplash and login screen concurrently when you change your desktop wallpaper.
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Two Step Installation of XBMC 9.11 Camelot in Ubuntu Karmic Koala
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XBMC 9.11 with revamped user interface and many new feature additions is finally up for grabs. Here is how you could actually install XBMC 9.11 in Ubuntu Karmic.
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IBAM - The Intelligent Battery Monitor for Laptops
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IBAM is an advanced battery monitor for laptops, which uses statistical and adaptive linear methods to provide accurate estimations of minutes of battery left or of the time needed until full recharge. This software relies on either APM, ACPI, SYSFS or PMU kernel support to access the battery status.
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How Travelers Can Protect Their Data
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This post is not meant to be a sure method for defeating attackers. That you can make the process so tedious and time consuming for the attacker, that he will likely not bother and move to another victim. This post is about those methods.
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Ultimate Edition Linux 2.5
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Some Linux distros sell themselves by being minimalistic. They only come with a limited range of apps and everything is geared toward keeping the file size and hardware requirements absolutely minimal. Then there’s Ultimate Edition 2.5. Ultimate Edition leans the other way and throws in everything including the kitchen sink.
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Add updated weather to your BASH prompt
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The concept is fairly simple. Schedule a custom php script under crontab that will parse a weather rss feed and create a file containing weather info that we can use in our custom prompt.
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Chrome: Linux's best Web browser?
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I'm a long time Firefox fan, but I've also grown fond of Google's Chrome browser. In fact, I've pretty much switched to Chrome as my browser of choice on my Windows PCs. Up until now though I've stuck with Firefox on Linux, but now that Chrome is available as a beta on Linux, I'm being tempted to switch.
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