Rounding out the fall releases from the big cheeses in Linux comes Fedora 12. Fedora is a popular Linux distribution funded by Red Hat, the most profitable Linux corporation active today. For this reason, Fedora is a well respected and highly popular distribution.
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How to install Avant Window Navigator (AWN) in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
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Avant Window Navigator (AWN/Awn) is a dock-like navigation bar for the linux desktop that positions itself at the bottom of the screen. It can be used to keep track of open windows and behaves like a normal window list.
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Old School Browsing with w3m
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Not to sound like a Luddite, but sometimes the old ways are best. When it comes to Web browsers, that's not very often, but knowing your way around a text-mode browser like w3m does come in handy from time to time.
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winetricks 20091213 released
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Austin and Andrew have been hard at work keeping winetricks working smoothly. In particular, the ie6 and gecko verbs should work again.
Thanks guys!
Changes since 20091125:
Austin English:
Workaround wine bug for IE6
Update shockwave sha1sum
Add python-comtypes verb
Explain windows licensing a bit better
Gdiplus no longer comes from powerpoint viewer, update description accordingly
Docky Feature Mock-Ups
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We’re massive fans of Dock application ‘Docky’ here at OMG! Ubuntu! and one of the principle designers working on it is a young man with a wonderfully conceptual imagination by the name of ‘Dan Rabbit’.
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Between Fedora 12 and 13
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In many minds, the Fedora 12 release is likely to remain forever associated with the project's ill-advised decision to allow any local user to install packages without the root password. That mistake is now in the past and, in any case, there is far more to Fedora 12 than this particular problem.
Read more »Slitaz: Life just isn’t fair
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For the past year, at least, I’ve been chiseling away at Crux systems, compiling sometimes for days straight in order to get clean, sharp, fast systems. And then along comes Slitaz.
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Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Alpha 1 Screen Shots
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Welcome to Lucid Lynx Alpha 1, which will in time become Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. New features: updated packages, Linux kernel 2.6.32, KDE 4.4 beta 1, HAL removal Alpha 1 is the first in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Lucid development cycle. Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Alpha 1 Screen Shots at SEO Expert Consultants Inc.
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Hold that (trojan) horse!
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The current news making a big splash around the Linux community is of a trojan that has been created and deployed on the Gnome-look website. For a start this trojan can not automatically install itself. It is not a virus and relies on social engineering to be effective.
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Sugar software environment gets sweeter with version 2
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Sugar Labs has announced the availability of Sugar on a Stick version 2, a major update of its Linux-based operating system for education that was originally developed for the One Laptop Per Child project. The new version introduces an ebook reader and a number of other important features.
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Exploring New Nepomuk Features in Mandriva Linux 2010
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You have probably heard of Nepomuk, the semantic desktop technology we've been shipping for a while as part of the KDE Platform. However, so far, you may not have noticed it really doing very much useful for you. So what is this thing called Nepomuk, what can it do for us now and what will it bring us in the future?
Read more »Uget My best Download Manager
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I have been using GNU/Linux for two years so far, and I'm using Ubuntu (GNOME). Over this period, I have tested a lot of download manager applications; unfortunately, I can't find the one that suits best for me, because what I have in mind was a program which more or less is simple, lightweight and practical.
Read more »How to fix the Ubuntu GPG Error BADSIG
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If you are seeing Ubuntu GPG Error BADSIG use the one of the following methods to fix
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Get the best KDE Linux distro
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Not all distros are made equal, particularly if you're a KDE user. So, we took eight of the top KDE-focused distros and pitched them head-to-head to find which ones really rock, and which ones just limp along with a vanilla set of packages.
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Lucid To Get Windows Aero Style Look
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Lucid may not be getting a new GTK theme but it will still be getting an entirely new look.
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