Kevin blogged about the porting of KMail to Akonadi. He, Andras and a couple of other KDABians are splitting KMail into smaller components that combined make up an email client. Those components are then ported to using Akonadi.
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ALSA 1.0.21 Was Released!
The ALSA 1.0.21 driver package update brings the Creative X-Fi Linux driver officially along with a horde of updates to the other drivers and more. The CMI8788 Oxygen driver (used by sound cards like the Razer Barracuda AC-1) now includes support for HDAV S/PDIF inputs and when it comes to sound cards now works with the ASUS Xonar Essence ST.
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Four More Cool Word Processors
If you've seen one online word processor--or even a handful of them--you haven't seen them all, not by a longshot. In addition to Google Docs, Zoho Writer, and emerging competitors such as EtherPad, other online offerings you might want to try include AjaxWrite, Writeboard, picoWrite and MonkeyTeX, to name a few.
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Managing User Names And Passwords
Revelation is a password manager for the GNOME 2 desktop. It stores accounts and passwords in a single, secure place, and gives access to them through a user-friendly graphical interface.
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Howto install Nvidia 190.25 (beta) drivers in ubuntu Jaunty/Intrepid/Hardy
190.25 (beta) is currently under development and most notably it brings support for OpenGL 3.2.
Read more »A New Development Release Of GNOME Shell
GNOME 3.0 will not be rolling out until the first half of 2010, but work is already underway on this major GNOME update that is the first to bring some radical changes in a long time.
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Warsow Update Delivers New Maps & More
While most open-source games still lack the graphics quality and features that the latest proprietary game engines support within retail games that are backed by the large studios, their quality has been improving as with their artwork and other characteristics. As an example of this, Warsow 0.5.
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Linux File Ownership
You can change the owner and group of a file or a directory with the chown command. Please, keep in mind you can do this only if you are the root user or the owner of the file. Set the file's owner: $ chown username somefile After giving this command, the new owner of a file called somefile will be the user username. The file's group owner will not change.
Read more »Add Screenlets to make your Linux desktop more useful
If you spend as much time on the Linux desktop as I do, having small applets available for specific tasks can make your life that much easier. If you use the KDE 4.x desktop you will be familiar with Widgets. For the GNOME users there is an application called Screenlets.
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OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 Released
OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 has been released. You can find full release notes, HERE.
You can download Windows files, Linux - .DEB and .RPM and Mac OSX files for OpenOffice 3.1.1 from HERE.
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Ubuntu 9.10 are we ready?
I was wondering what effect a release of Ubuntu 9.10 being released at the same time as Windows 7 and Mac “Snow leopard”. First thing we have to ask is are we ready?
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One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 8 Progress Report
One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 8 came and went last week, and good progress was made:
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Best Linux Desktop Blogging Clients
A lot of people ask me if there are any desktop blogging clients for Linux that can be used for offline editing -- something like Windows Live Writer. So I'm going to answer them through this post... for those of you who really want to have a desktop blogging client, here are some of the decent ones that you should try
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25 Cool & Beautiful Linux Wallpapers
I'm sharing some cool and beautiful, high quality, Linux wallpapers, that I have collected from the internet. So without any delay lets check them out.
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Set up a Personal Microblog with Bilboblog
There are many reasons why you would want to run your own private microblog, but how do you actually do that? The easiest way is to install Bilboblog, a tiny, no-frills PHP/MySQL-based microblogging engine.
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