The basic functionalities of MountManager are:- Mount and unmount partitions (ext3/2, ntfs, swap, fat, reiserfs, iso9660, udf...
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Mandriva Review
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I popped the old disk in the drive and waited for the skinned bootloader to load up. Well I say that like it took a while, but it really didn’t. I selected the option to boot into Mandriva Live.
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Top 10 Firefox 3.5 Features
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Firefox 3.5 is a pretty substantial update to the popular open-source browser, and it's just around the corner. See what features, fixes, and clever new tools are worth getting excited about in the next big release.
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First look to Firefox 3.5 RC2
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If you’ve been following Firefox 3.5 development you may realize there was no RC1 as expected. In fact, this is a new approach Mozilla is taking for this stage.
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Ubuntu Improves User Experience Via “Paper Cut” Campaign
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Ubuntu developers recently announced their intention to fix a number of minor but noticeable usability bugs, which they've termed "Paper Cuts," in time for the release of Ubuntu 9.10 next October. This is a huge step in the right direction for Ubuntu, and reflects the kind of usability-oriented thinking that is central to making it a success.
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3 Ways to Install Latest Wine in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope
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I decided to put up this guide which shows how to install the latest Wine release in Ubuntu 9.04 using 3 different methods. The default Jaunty repositories come with Wine 1.0.1, but the latest release is 1.1.24 and a new version is available every two weeks, so here is a tutorial which explains how to get the last Wine release in Ubuntu or Kubuntu Jaunty.
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Alien Arena 2009
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It’s been over six long months of dedicated, at times daunting, and ultimately triumphant work…and COR Entertainment at last announces the release of Alien Arena 2009!
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Songbird 1.2.0 - 10-band Equalizer Now Included
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It's been a while since I had a look at Songbird, and that was when 1.0 came out. The new release was put out a little earlier this month and comes with a brand new equalizer, a new mode to auto-organise media files included in the collection and Last.fm radio integration.
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Firefox 3.5 RC2: A Quick First Look
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Mozilla today released Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 2, which you can download from Mozilla's Web site. Release Candidate 2 is the first version of Firefox 3.5 that average users might want to run, since it's faster and more stable than the beta versions were. Firefox 3.5 boasts a number of significant changes.
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Make Gimp Panels Auto Hide in Gnome
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Normally, Gimp panels are de-attached from the main window, so you practically have 3 windows. And that can be bad for productivity and usability. But you can change that to auto-hiding dock panels. To understand better, watch a video I just recorded:
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How To Run Windows Apps In Linux
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Wine is an open source project that, on the face of it, seems to offer something wondrous: the ability to run Windows applications under Linux (or any other open source OS).
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Teaching Math with the KDE Interactive Geometry Program
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I've written quite a bit about using Linux to help educate people. Kig allows you to use various tools to diagram and demonstrate different mathematical concepts.
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Comparing MEPIS 8 and Ubuntu 9.04
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I know I’m not exactly comparing apples with apples, since MEPIS 8 is based on Debian 5.0 and uses KDE 3.5, whilst Ubuntu 9.04 uses GNOME 2.
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Ubuntu's First Ten Paper Cuts Spotted
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Paper cuts are rather trivial usability bugs that are small, but in one way or another could impair the Linux desktop. The first ten of the one hundred paper cuts for Ubuntu 9.10 have now been determined.
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Pidgin unable to connect to yahoo
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Pidgin is a popular open source client for yahoo messenger and other IM protocols. Yahoo recently updated their client and older versions of pidgin will be unable to login to yahoo. Learn how to do a work around.
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