Few topics in the IT industry are more contentious than the prospect of putting Linux on the corporate desktop. Opinions range from the religious view at one end, promoting a fundamentalist belief in open source as the saviour of mankind, to the reaction of corporate conservatives at the other, dismissing Linux as irrelevant to serious end user computing.
Read more »Getting real about Linux on the desktop
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Gnote Explodes in Popularity
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JDownloader 0.5.859 - New Interface, Firefox Addon and Many other Changes
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JDownloader, the java-based (thus multi-platform) download application for services such as Rapidshare and Megaupload released a new version which includes a new interface.
The new version also comes with a Firefox plugin which can automatically handle the download links.
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Forget Moblin! UNR rocks on the Classmate
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Last week I fired up the latest beta of Moblin, the open source netbook/MID/nettop operating system originally spearheaded by Intel, but now shepherded by the Linux Foundation.
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KOffice 2.0.0 tagged for release
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After nearly two years in the making, the KOffice project will release version 2.0.0 of if its cross-platform office suite of the same name this week, adding features like scripting support and a new shape library.
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Linux Distribution Companion Services
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Mandriva and Ubuntu both seem to think that companion services to complement their distributions are a good idea, and I agree. These services, which, so far, usually involve paid cloud storage and/or backup, offer a potential revenue stream for companies that may not otherwise make much money.
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Review: System76 Pangolin Performance laptop
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If you had the chance to try one of the Wal Mart or Zonbu machines you will remember well that the hardware was second-rate at best. On top of that, the hardware BARELY supported Linux. But System 76 to make good on all of the promises these companies have failed to deliver on.
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Project Goblin - openSUSE And Moblin
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I can finally release my super secret project to you the lovely community: Project Goblin. You may well be asking "WTF is Goblin?!" and the answer is pretty simple really - our illustrious mascot Geeko + Moblin = Goblin.
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Highlight Domain & Subdomain for SSL websites in Firefox
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When you visit a Secure website in Firefox chances are that the FavIcon for the website is replaced with a Green bar with the details of the company. This is because of the default properties in Firefox to display detailed information of the website from the Extended Validation Certificate on the website.
Read more »Flock 2.5 Delivers the Promise of Social Media on the Web
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As you spend more-and-more of your time on the Internet and connecting with others, Flock can help to streamline repetitive social activities.
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Getting to know Gnote
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As someone who writes for a living, I tend to take a lot of notes. For a while, used an application called Tomboy for that purpose. It was a nifty little app, but it ran a bit slowly for my tastes. I heard about Gnote, which is a rewrite of Tomboy in C++. Of course, I decided to give it a try.
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At last! Moblin has made Linux look cool!
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We are living in strange times. The entire economy turns out to have been a great big joke. Parliament appears close to collapse. The US is introducing new standards that could herald the end of gas guzzlers. Somebody or something called Tinchy Stryder has been number one in the charts.
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15 Beautiful KDM Themes
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KDM (KDE Display Manager) is the default graphical login interface of the K Desktop Environment. Anyone who uses KDE should know that KDM is highly customizable and can be easily configured.If you are already bored with your simple KDE login screen, you can spice it up a little through theming.
Read more »Simplify Media: Share Your Music Collection with Your Friends via Streaming [Multi-Platform]
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Simplify Media is a program that lets you listen to your friends music and allows them to listen to your music library, all in just a few steps. Also, this works for any operating system.
The operation is simple: choose which folders your friends will be allowed to listen and then invite them to create an account.
Read more »KDE 4.3 Beta 1: A Short Preview
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As a KDE fan myself, I couldn’t wait to try it out. It took a while before Kubuntu packages were made available, however as soon as they were released I jumped on it and installed the beta on my laptop. What did I think of it?
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