Moovida, formerly called Elisa, is a cross-platform (Windows and Linux) media suite sponsored by Fluendo. The test installation used version 1.0.9. The program has promise, notably in its elegant design. But it faltered in some areas of performance, and could use some polishing.
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Task Manager for Windows Users moving to Ubuntu 9.10
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When moving to Ubuntu from windows you are definitely to miss the TASK MANAGER show open programs, show individual processes, allow force quits, and show CPU and memory performance/usage. There is definitely an option for you in UBUNTU and also you can give the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Del for popping the Task Manager window out.
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Sabayon Linux 5.1-r1 - Review and Commentary
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The latest release of Sabayon Linux was announced yesterday and being big fans of the desktop, we decided to take it for a test drive and see what has changed.
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Adding the Debian menu to Window Maker
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I have used Window Maker for some time and have always made my own custom menus. However, the current maintainer of the Window Maker window manager gave us a small tutorial on how to add the Debian menu to a custom menu. The menu package must be installed prior to beginning this tutorial, check your software repositories. Thanks to John H. Robinson, IV (aka jaqque).
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Distributions: No winter break in Linux land
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With Fedora 12 and Ubuntu 9.10 now out the door, developers are already turning their attention to the spring releases. KDE3 has definitively gone the way of the dodo as far as openSUSE and Mandriva are concerned. Google is taking its first steps in the operating system market with Chrome OS.
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Is Desktop Linux Handicap Accessible?
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Simple access to desktop computing: It's something that myself, among countless others, take for granted every single day. With proprietary operating systems, there are programs readily available for those who need accessibility assistance with their computers. But what is it like for someone who needs accessibility options on the Linux desktop?
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Linux Mint: Making Linux easy
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Most users that have used Linux as their desktop operating system for any length of time will tell you that Ubuntu is one of the most user-friendly Linux versions available. The people over at Linux Mint disagree.
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Why the BSDs get no love
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It was a warm summer night, circa 1996, when I installed my first Linux distribution. I remember it well, the old text-based installation of Caldera Open Linux. The install took some time to get used to, but it worked. But what about the BSDs?
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Watch out Microsoft: GNOME is poised to have a killer 2010
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The GNOME Foundation has been slowly and quietly growing in marketing sophistication, arming itself to do battle with proprietary desktop leaders Microsoft and Apple. For instance, yesterday the foundation announced that it was raising its 2010 advisory board membership fees to $20,000 apiece for large companies and $10,000 for small ones.
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KDE is a community, not a software release
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The second beta release of KDE Software Compilation 4.4 is coming up in about a week and a half. It’s a long name for a release, but it carries with it additional meanings.
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Luckybackup - A powerful, fast and reliable backup & sync tool
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LuckyBackup is an application that backs-up and/or synchronizes any directories with the power of rsync. Its main features are: backup, safety, synchronization, exclude/only include options, allows custom rsync options, remote connections, restore and dry-run operations, scheduling, profiles and command line mode.
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Compile And Set Up rTorrent and wTorrent In Debian 5 Lenny [Complete How-to]
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The reason I am writing this post is because I tried many howto's which didn't work and I eventually ended up combining some to get both rtorrent and wtorrent to install and run on my Debian 5 Lenny VPN. In case you don't know: wtorrent is a WebUI for rtorrent, a command line Bittorrent client. Be aware, there are quite a few steps on doing this, so you need a lot of patience and time.
Read more »Why Use GNote When There’s Tomboy?
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GNote is interesting is an interesting application because it is a sticky notes application which allows wiki-like syntax, linking, and so on. And it looks very much like Tomboy, as it’s a re-write of that application.
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8 Cheerful Christmas Linux Wallpapers
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Ho, ho, ho! Happy holidays. Enjoy these Christmas Linux wallpapers.
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Switching to Opensuse
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In the last 3.5 years I used Gentoo Linux as the operating system of choice for my personal computer. Eventualy, I got tired of gentoo compilations. Time to try something new, I say...
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