If you believe that desktop features can be intuitive, then a survey of the available menus in free and open source (FOSS) desktops should disabuse you of the notion.
Read more »GNOME and KDE: In Search of the Perfect Menu
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Ubuntu's Lucid Lynx sprays sweet perfume at freeloaders
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The founder of Linux distie Ubuntu has outlined plans for the platform’s next release (10.04), which is expected to land in April 2010. Mark Shuttleworth said in a video message to attendees of the open source outfit’s UbuCon Atlanta meeting yesterday, that the next version of the distribution carries the code name Lucid Lynx.
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Puppy Linux 4.3
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Puppy Linux is one of the better known distributions when it comes to Linux portability. Puppy has been around for a long time and version 4.3 was recently released.
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OpenDisc: One stop shop for Windows Open Source
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OpenDisc is a high quality collection of Open Source software for Windows put together with an easy to use front end that makes installing and/or learning about these applications simple. Of course OpenDisc has a secondary purpose - to educate users about the Linux operating system.
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System Rescue - My Favorite LiveCD
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One of the things I love about GNU/Linux is the existence of LiveCD's. A live CD or live DVD is a CD or DVD containing a bootable computer operating system. Live CDs are unique in that they have the ability to run a complete, modern operating system on a computer lacking mutable secondary storage, such as a hard disk drive.
Read more »Linux Game Repository With a GUI: DJL
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Djl is an open-source (GPL licensed) game manager written in Python 2.5 for the GNU/Linux Operating Systems, inspired by Valve's Steam software for Windows for which anyone can submit games.
Read more »Next Ubuntu named "Lucid Lynx". Mark Shuttleworth video here.
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Ubuntu patron and founder, Mark Shuttleworth, has detailed plans for the distribution's April 2010 release, codenamed Lucid Lynx.
Read more »The path to GNOME 3.0
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GNOME release manager Vincent Untz talks to heise open about the projects future plans for the popular desktop manager.
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Mint 8: mintInstall improvements
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I’ve been really silent lately and I haven’t communicated much with the community on what I was working on and what was happening. I was in France this summer on a 3 months unpaid leave. This gave me the opportunity to see how my life would be affected if I was to leave my job and I’m happy to say the experiment was a total success.
Read more »Anonymous browsing on Android - Update
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A group of developers at the Digital Technology Group (DTG), formerly the Laboratory for Communication Engineering (LCE), at the University of Cambridge have released two Android applications that allow users to browse the web anonymously using The Onion Router. The Onion Router, commonly referred to as Tor, is free software designed to provide internet anonymity to users while browsing online.
Read more »Remuco as Remote for Your Media Player
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Those with bluetooth or wifi on their machines will most likely enjoy using Remuco, an application to let you use your mobile phone as a remote control. Right now, Remuco can be used with the following media players:
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Gnome 3 – A Quick Visual Tour
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Gnome 3, due for inclusion in Ubuntu 10.04, will mark the first radical change to the Gnome Desktop since it's inception thanks to it’s “new” interface ‘Gnome-Shell’.
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Firebird 2.1.3 packages for Ubuntu and Debian are ready
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Firebird 2.1.3 is a recommended update, packages for ubuntu , karmic ,intrepid , jaunty and hardy are ready and uploaded
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Use your mobile as remote for linux media players the easy way
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Remuco is a duplex remote control system for Linux media players and mobile devices equipped with Bluetooth or WiFi. To put it simple you could actually use your mobile phone with bluetooth or Wifi as a remote control for linux media players like Amarok, Banshee, Totem, VLC and more.
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Real-Time Earth Wallpaper
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We already wrote about a wallpaper application for Linux which displays the current weather, moon phases and time of day based on your current location, in real time. This time, I'm going to tell you about a script created by Claudio Novais @ Ubuntued which displays a picture of the Earth, in real time.
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