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Read more »The best netbook ever?
Netbooks, in a variety of applications, are certainly among my favorites. After all, they’re cheap, they do most of what we need them to do, they fit well in backpacks, they’re cheap, and, oh yeah, they’re cheap.
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Open Source Karaoke Game Hits the Right Notes
Though Performous is a really fun open source karaoke game, I'll spare you the sound bite of me singing along with my favorite tune (trust me, you don't want to hear). Instead, you'll want to go download this cool cross-platform app and spend the day crooning into your hairbrush and pretending you're Elvis.
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Vixta Linux 2009.7
A lot of Windows users have considered switching to Linux and usually when they do switch it means getting used to a whole new look and feel on their desktop computers. But what happens when Linux is made to look like Windows? Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
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Guru Tips For The Linux Road Warrior
There is also a growing army of stealth Linux road warriors, that are running under the radar.
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Comparing windows and Linux hardware management.
An operating systems most basic function is to act as a layer between the computer hardware and the user space programs. What an operating system provides to those user space programs is a standard interface to the computers hardware, no matter what type of hardware that is.
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Simple, Fast, and Geeky Console-based Audio Players for Linux
To those of you who are new to Linux, you may not know that you can use the shell terminal to do some fun stuff like play games, watch Star Wars, and even browse the web. You can even blast your favorite music with it, which I will be showing you how.
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Make your own Wayback Machine or Time Machine in GNU/Linux with rsnapshot
A good backup system can help you recover from a lot of different kinds of situations: a botched upgrade (requiring re-installation), a hard drive crash, or even thumb-fingered users deleting the wrong file. In practice, though I've experienced all of these, it's the last sort of problem that causes me the most pain. Sometimes you just wish you could go back a few days in time and grab that file.
Read more »The Best Image Viewers For Linux
Below are a selection of Image Viewers that provide more features than the default application and how they compare against it.
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How to install KDE 4.3.1 in Ubuntu Jaunty
As a service release, the changelog contains a list of bugfixes and improvements. Notable improvements include, but are not limited to...
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Ultimate Download Management guide for Linux
When I got started with Linux, The one thing I couldn’t find was good download managers. but today we have plenty of them, in fact what we have on Linux is simply better than Adware/Shareware download managers on Windows. In this guide, I’m going to tell you the various ways for good and reliable download management on Linux.
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More Chrome OS clues - bootable browser?
After a second (or is it third?) round of possible Chrome OS images captured by the ever-popular A. Nonymous Tipster on his trusty-but-low-res digital camera, speculation around Google's ethereal OS is bound to keep heating up.
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4 Resources for the Powerful Inkscape Open Source Drawing Tool
Among advanced open source graphics tools, GIMP has a lot of fans, and there are many free online resources available for it, but if you're looking for a drawing and illustration tool that can compete with Adobe Illustrator and is especially good for logos and splashy still graphics, give Inkscape a try.
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10 Interesting Google Chrome OS Mock-up Designs
I've collected some of the best looking and interesting mock-ups, and you will be the judge if any of them can closely resemble or shall I say predict the look of the "real version" of Chrome OS once it comes out.
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Fedora from an Ubuntu point of view
In the interests of not becoming blinkered to one distribution, I thought I might give Fedora 11 a whirl. Not having used Fedora since FC4, I was surprised to see the adoption of a live CD installation and relieved to avoid a DVD size download. Just like Ubuntu it’s well polished, perhaps more so with graphical grub.
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