I love KDE. I have used KDE since 3.1 on Mandrake 9.1. Then KDE4 came around. The 4.0 RC was buggy, feature incomplete and hard to use. I felt alienated and switched to Debian and GNOME. KDE is a second class citizen in the world of debian based distros.
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7 of the Best Free Linux Twitter Clients
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Micro-blogging is all the rage these days. ?It is a webservice which allows the subscriber to send short text updates or micromedia such as photos or audio clips and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group which can be chosen by the user.
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How To Get The M-Audio Transit USB Audio Device Working In Ubuntu 9.04 AMD64
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This tutorial will explain how to get the M-Audio Transit USB audio device working under Ubuntu 9.04 amd64, although it may work for other versions. The Transit is usually a Windows only device and is not detected normally because the firmware has to be loaded in to the device; this is normally done by the Windows drivers. I’ve written this tutorial
Read more »UbuntuOne in the cloud
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With more and more users turning to the Internet to store and share documents, Linux developer Ubuntu has also entered the market with a beta version of its UbuntuOne service (http://www.ubuntuone.com). The platform is a competitor to the likes of Dropbox and allows users to synchronise files between computers as well as sharing them with friends and colleagues.
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Change your GNOME wallpaper automatically with Wallpapoz
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Are you a collector of wallpapers and do you like your wallpaper to change at a given interval or when you change to a different workspace? If you are that person then Wallpapoz is for you.
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The Legend of Edgar 0.20
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* The game should now work on 64 bit CPUs
* Added the Forbidden Swamp boss
* Added basic inventory system so the player can see items and their quantities
* The Forest map now has proper scroll limits
* Water animates
* Raft interaction point only takes away the logs when the objective has been completed
* Added the Sewer and Fortress Outskirts maps
Share Firefox Add-ons with Collector
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Ever had problems finding Firefox extensions? Want to tell the world about the extensions you find most useful? Now you can, using the Firefox Add-on Collector.
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Skrooge: Personal finance management +1
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I ran out of money last month quite early (in NL you usually get paid once a month) and I did not understand why. Since Skrooge got imported last month in KDE SVN, I wondered if that could help me determine why.
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Chromium in Linux is advancing nicely
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I’ve installed “chromium-snapshot” from Arch’s AUR yesterday (means user contributed, unofficial packages), and I must say it’s come a long way.
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Distro Hoppin`: Pardus Linux 2009
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Conclusions should end an article, not begin one, but I have to say this from the start: Pardus 2009 is one of the most impressively well-done Linux distributions that I've put my hands on for a loooong time.
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Glassbuntu: design a dark crystal Gnome theme for Ubuntu or Linux Mint.
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The Gnome user interface used by Ubuntu and Linux Mint allows a huge amount of graphical customization, but these features are rarely used. Part of the problem is that to make an aesthetically appealing theme you need to blend various elements: windows decorations, widgets, icons, backgrounds.
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Split decision: Goggles Music Manager
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I don’t usually notice music managers, mostly because I resent applications that “manage” things for me. On the other hand, I’m constantly on the lookout for applications that run light and fast.
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Mepis 8.0 Linux MiniReview
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Mepis 8.0 Linux is a Linux distro designed for ease of use and suitable even for beginners. It is built on Debian 5.0 stable core with the 2.6.27 Linux kernel and comes in a 32bit and 64bit version.
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By design security issues with linux default limited accounts (Ubuntu's sudo is not secure)
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In Ubuntu gksu and sudo can be hijacked by an attacker who already has access to the current non-administrative account.
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Kubuntu Jaunty: Just 'cos I use it don't mean it's all good
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After a few month's of using Kubuntu Jaunty as our primary desktop environment, I've written a report on some of its shortcomings. Hopefully, this can be used as constructive feedback on what to improve on in the future.
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