There is a very simple command that reinstalls all the distribution packages and reconfigures them automatically. This is particularly helpful when you have done a partial upgrade and eventually have broken the system dependencies tree.
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Top 10 Google Chrome Extensions
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Not long after Google Chrome was released, we've featured here a few sample extensions. Now that there are plenty of Google Chrome extensions available, I would like to share to you some of those that I think adds important functionality to this fast and simple browser.Here are my top 10 favorite Google Chrome Extensions
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Howto setup Wireless on Chrome OS
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Chrome has recently been open sourced by Google as a developer preview. Its very young, clearly has some issues and needs serious work, however it is usable and lots of people have managed to get it running in a virtual machine or via a USB key.
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Simple Linux disk burning with Brasero
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Q: What is a "brasero"?
A: A Spanish oven that is placed under a table in order to heat those sitting at the table."
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What Kind Of Bird Are You Booting?
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Like many others, I couldn't wait to get my hands on a copy of the new killer OS from Google. I wanted to try it out. Kick the tires. Take it for a spin. That sort of thing.
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Linux Desktop Search Engines Compared
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I have a large electronic library (over 15,000 books) and I was looking for a way to cope with this mass of information. I didn't like the idea of a special catalog, since it would take a lot of manual work to enter the metadata. These files lack metadata way too often and I thought a local indexing service with a full-text search might solve my problem.
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Twenty Bucks Thank You Sir May I Have Another
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Codeweavers announced they were going to support Left 4 Dead 2 in their next release. I hemmed, I hawed, and I folded, on the rationale that supporting Codeweavers was good enough to qualify this purchase for the Twenty Bucks program. (For those who don’t know, Codeweavers is pretty much the commercial side of Wine, employing most of the key programmers.) I bought CrossOver Games, installed Steam, and bought the combo pack of L4D and L4D2. Then I anxiously awaited the demo and the CrossOver Games release that would support L4D2. When it arrived, the demo ran almost perfectly in regular Wine, after some initial installation issues. I played a bit with my son and was living the good life.
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What will Fedora 13 Linux be named?
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Among the bits of minutiae that I personally find entertaining about the Linux distribution release cycle is how different distros come up with their respective release names.
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VirtualBox 3.1 adds live migration and branched snapshots
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The latest version of VirtualBox delivers some compelling new features, including support for live migration and branched snapshots. Migration capabilities reflect VirtualBox’s potential for ascending into the enterprise arena.
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Ubuntu 10.4 (Lucid) boot experience changing from using usplash to plymouth
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This specification details the foundation team plans for the technology for the Lucid Lynx boot experience, changing from using usplash to plymouth to provide the graphical splash screen while waiting for the boot to complete. The "look" and "theme" components are not covered here.
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Savage 2: A Tortured Soul - Real time strategy game for Linux
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Savage 2: A Tortured Soul is a fantasy / science fiction, real-time strategy, fps, rpg game is a sequel to to S2 Games’ Savage : Battle for Newerth. Both teams of human and beasts are pitted against each other in a gameplay where strategy, agility and alertness is needed. Activities such as kills, deaths, assists, building razes, damage and score points are tracked.
Read more »B-Sides – Get Applications That Didn’t Make The Ubuntu Desktop CD
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Ubuntu B-Sides is a project that aims at bringing to you the "rest of the disc", a number of great applications that couldn't make it to the default Ubuntu desktop (by that, we mean directly off the official CD), but nicely complement it. We do this by adding applications and not replacing those that are provided by the release, and without breaking the "one application per task" rule...
Read more »Help PlayOnLinux
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To this day, PlayOnLinux has provided you with more than a hundred scripts. Thanks to PlayOnLinux quite a few people have made their final step towards Linux. Maybe you are among those recent addition to the community. As you know, Playonlinux allows you to use applications made for windows on the GNU/Linux operating system of your choice for free.
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Fedora Linux 12
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The latest release of Fedora is version 12 and it includes some nifty new features. I downloaded the Live CD version of Fedora 12 that features the Gnome desktop environment.
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Dell Offers Custom Chromium OS Download For Mini 10V
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Dell has made available a customized download of Google's Chromium OS (the open-source version of Chrome OS), specifically for its popular Mini 10V netbook.
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