One of the things that's been frustrating me a lot lately is all the negative press about KDE4. And the Gnome fanboys have been having a blast with it. I want to state explicitly here and now, STOP PICKING ON KDE4!!
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KDE 4: The Komplete Desktop?
KDE 4 creator Matthias Ettrich, envisaged a Unix desktop with a common look and feel. KDE 4 has been released for over a year now, has it met this goal?
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Valve To Launch Native Linux Game In July?
Late last year we also got some confirmation of a Steam Linux client through some Linux shared libraries that had mistakenly shipped with the Left 4 Dead game client along with some other information we received through the grapevine. Well, now there may be another sign of impending Linux support by Valve Software.
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KlamAV: Outstanding KDE front-end for Linux anti-virus
You don’t usually hear that phrase spoken “Linux anti-virus”. But it does exist. One of the more popular Linux anti-virus tools is ClamAV. But to most users (especially new users) ClamAV is a bit challenging to use. That is where KlamAV comes in.
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Stealth Checking Xbox 360 Games With abgx360 and Nautilus
If you're like me, you've jumped through a million hoops to get abgx360gui working. But you can only get the command line interface working. No problem, we'll create a script for Nautilus to easily launch abgx360 to check your Xbox 360 games.
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The Three Faces of Fedora 11, Part 3: Xfce
I have to confess that in writing this blog item about Xfce on Fedora 11, I’ve had divine inspiration. I mean, really divine inspiration, as in as high on the divinity food chain as you can get.
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15 Cool and Unique GDM Themes
Not long ago, we've featured here some of the most beautiful KDM themes available for all the KDE users out there. So it's only appropriate to give GNOME lovers a little treat by presenting several good looking GDM themes this time around.
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Having Yum for Breakfast
In this wide world of Linux, there are primarily just two package management systems which reign: RPM and Deb. Which is better?
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Mumbles Brings Growl-like Notifications to your Gnome/Ubuntu Desktop
You’ve certainly have bumped into Gmail Notifier for Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, the awesome little python-install application that brings Growl-like, transparent Gmail notifications to your desktop, Mumbles goes a lot further than that.
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Howto Rip a DVD - Easy and Free with Linux
So, you have a nice shiny DVD with your favorite movie, and your dog chews it to pieces. If only you had ripped that movie to a file that you could burn to a new DVD, or play on your favorite media player. In this video tutorial I show those of you outside of the United States** how to do this in Linux.
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Taking a look At Debris Linux
It seems hardly a week goes by without an announcement of a new distribution based on Ubuntu. Among them perhaps only a handful stands out for doing something innovative or significantly different from the parent distribution. Debris Linux is one that really caught my eye.
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When accelerometers meet Twitter
The shakeyshakey program calculates the covariance of data sampled from a Thinkpad’s accelerometers. If the covariance is over a certain threshold it posts the result to Twitter. Or more simply put, shake your laptop and make it tweet!
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Stream Music With Subsonic
Streaming music over a computer network or Internet was a complicated process in the beginning days of the Internet. Today all it takes to stream music is the installation of one program and a web browser to access the music.
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13 things to get excited for in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
I don't know about you, but i'm damn excited about the upcoming version of Ubuntu, so it better deliver! Aside from a new Ubiquity slideshow for new users, what specific things are there to look forward to?
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Linux on a stick
The compact and flexible nature of the Linux Kernel, plus the fact that it and all its support code is modular open source, means it lends itself very well to stripped down small and efficient distributions. This article explores a few of these distributions.
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