The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 1.8 today. Bordeaux 1.8 has had many changes on the back end. The build process has been totally rewritten, packaging has been totally rewritten, the .sh installer is terminal based now and the dependency for pygtk and pango has been removed, the .sh installer will now run on any supported platform Linux, BSD, Solaris and Mac.
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Canonical to Look Into the Question of Mono/Microsoft Patents in Ubuntu
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AFTER persistently ignoring those who warned about Mono, Canonical finally follows Fedora's (Red Hat's) footsteps and takes a closer look at the Mono licensing question. Here is a new statement...
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Firefox 3.5 RC 1 Ubuntu Repository
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To install the latest Firefox 3.5 (currently Release Candidate 1) or Firefox 3.6 in Ubuntu, open a terminal and:
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On Fedora 11 installation
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I have been, as I mentioned, following up on Fedora 11 release stuff. Sadly, there’ve been a few very negative reviews and comments, based on problems with the partitioning stage of installation. So, here’s the deal on that.
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Amarok 2.1 Quick(-ish) Review
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So I’ve just installed Amarok 2.1. Configured my collection location easy enough, downloaded the alarm script from the scripts library. I know exactly how I want Amarok 2 to look: Exactly like Amarok 1.4.
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First look: Ubuntu 9.10 alpha 2 brings Ext4, GRUB 2
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Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, is scheduled to arrive in October. Ars takes a look at the second alpha release, which was made available for download last week.
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click2try(TM) Helps Users Run Ubuntu Directly from Open Source Catalog
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click2try today announced the availability of Ubuntu 8.04 in its online catalog of virtualized Open Source applications. A Community site, click2try enables users to try applications for free and use by subscription.
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Platformer roundup
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Free Gamer gives a round up of the newest free platform games.
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One Hundred Papercuts: The Most Exciting Thing Since the Last Thing Canonical Did
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Remember when Mark Shuttleworth announced Canonical was putting together a usability and design team? That team has announced their first major project, called One Hundred Papercuts. The idea, as described by David Siegel (member of the team and Gnome Do developer) is to select one hundred easily fixable bugs that are day to day minor annoyances to the user and fix them for the next release.
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Howto Increase Desktop Functionality With Compiz Fusion
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Video tutorial on enabling some of the Compiz effects than can improve productivity
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Midori seems like it has the potential to evolve into one really fast, handy browser, especially if you want to create a light, fast desktop or window manager based system.
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Bordeaux for Mac OS X 1.8 (alpha) released
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Only Office 2007 Applications (Word, Excel, Powerpnt) and Internet Explorer 6.0 are supported. The next Beta build will include support for Office 2003 applications and more! The download is 66.11MB and avaliable now...
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Noteworthy Mandriva Cooker changes
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It’s a long time ago I posted something on my blog, so this is a good moment to break the silence with a Cooker update...
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Nice Ubuntu themes for Jaunty and Intrepid Users
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This tutorial will explain how to install zgegblog-themes in ubuntu jaunty and intrepid
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Fedora 11 Leonidas bleeds
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Hardly ever has a Linux distribution raised such a mixed feelings as the Fedora has done for us. On the other hand it represents the most up-to-date software and has some cool innovations, and is backed by one of the biggest Linux contributors - RedHat.
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