A recent report shows that users of Google Chrome are more likely to be up to date with all the updates than users of any other browser. The reason for this is that Google pushes out silent updates and installs them without even telling the user, even when Chrome is not running. The report concludes that this is a very safe and secure way of updating users.
Read more »Silent Updates Do Not Equal Security
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Sabayon 4.1 - A Linux monster (cute one)
Sabayon was probably the first Linux that offered 3D gadgets in the live session out of the box, no special configurations on behalf of the user required. It is also probably the first Linux that demanded more than 10GB of hard disk space.
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Get to know Linux: Window Maker
Continuing with our introduction to old-school Linux window managers, I would like to bring to you Window Maker. The Window Maker window manager was designed to look and feel like the old NeXT GUI.
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8 Beautiful Conky Desktop Monitor Setup
Conky is a highly customizable desktop monitor for X Window System. Think of it as KDE4 desktop widgets on crack.
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7 E17 Distributions
KDE4 is not the only desktop environment which provides a sleek eye candy experience. E17 still remains to be one of the only Desktop Environments/Window Manager, which provides a speedy and visually pleasing experience.
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Ubuntu Tip: How to Erase CD-RW/DVD-RW
If you want to Erase CD-RW/DVD-RW in Ubuntu use the one of the following options...
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OpenOffice.org 3.1 is born
The latest and greatest 3.1 release of OpenOffice.org is available. OpenOffice.org 3.1 was officially released to the world at 09:00 UTC today.
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The Ubuntu 9.04 Intel Graphics Fiasco
Because I was traveling, I didn't get around to upgrading my desktop to Ubuntu 9.04 until yesterday. After what seemed like the fastest Ubuntu installation and quickest boot ever on my system, I was excited to log into Gnome and see what the stable release of Jaunty has to offer. Instead, I was met with a lot of frustration and loss of faith in Ubuntu's commitment to stability, due to egregiou
Read more »A weekend with Ubuntu 9.04 and Kubuntu 9.04
With the release of Ubuntu 9.04 I figured it was time for me to download the ISO and see what this new version of Ubuntu brings to the table. While I was at it I also decided to get the Kubuntu.
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Hedgewars - The Worms redesigned
There is a Unix Worms-like game, called Hedgewars, developed by a Russian programmer Andrey Korotaev. It might be hard to believe, but hedges have been there since 2004, so don’t waste any time and proceed with the review. It’s free and open source project, GPL v.2 based, and more importantly - it’s available for Linux, Windows, and MacOS supporting both - 32, and 64 bit architecture.
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Ubuntu: Two Ways to Keep A Clean Desktop Without Affecting Your Efficiency
I love placing all the shortcut icons and files on my Desktop. On the other hand, I also have a passion for clean desktop. Apparently, having a lot of desktop shortcuts and a clean beautiful desktop together is not quite possible. I need a solution.
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Adeona: Open Source Lojack For Laptops
Adeona has been widely touted (194K hits at google) as the Open Source solution to protecting your laptop or netbook.
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T-Mobile serves up some Android cupcake
Google Android 1.5 is nearly here, but what can G1 users expect to get when T-Mobile starts rolling out the over-the-air upgrades next week?
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KDE 4.2.3 Released
The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of "Cuagmire", (a.k.a KDE 4.2.3), another bugfix and maintenance update for the latest generation 4.2.
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starting perl GUI programming
I need to extend my programming knowledge, I know as a system administrator, I should automate everything I need to do more than twice and therefore I need more programming skills. I've been thinking of learning shell programming, as it is the most ubiquitous in Linux systems. I already know some shell programming and for most of the simple tasks I can easily write a small shell script.
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