On a whim, I installed the latest pre-release release of ReactOS today. I tried it a long time ago and had no luck whatsoever — black screens, nonbooting or just generalized irregular behavior — and so I rarely give it a thought.
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The future of PowerDevil (and of power management)
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PowerDevil has proven to be quite a solid software, and I’m both proud and happy about it: the 4.2->4.3 transition has happened almost with no maintainance. The problem is that PowerDevil GUI does suck, big time, because it’s way too cluttered.
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K9Copy - Powerful DVD Backup Tool for KDE4
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K9Copy is a KDE application which allows to transcode and backup your DVDs. K9Copy is one of the big players when it comes to DVD transcoding, together with dvd::rip and AcidRip, allowing to encode DVD ISO images and mounted DVDs too.
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The Wine development release 1.1.20 is now available.
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What's new in this release (see below for details):
- Show a dialog on application crashes.
- Much improved OLE copy/paste support.
- Various listview improvements.
- More Direct3D code cleanups.
- Various bug fixes.
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Xfce is light ... but Fvwm is lighter
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Now that I've pretty much got my Xfce 4.4 desktop where I want it in OpenBSD, I've been spending more and more time not in Xfce but in the Fvwm2 window manager that's the default for this OS.
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Top 10 Ubuntu Downloads
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The reviews are in, and the just-released Ubuntu 9.04, i.e. "Jaunty Jackalope," rates as a slick, fully-formed Linux desktop. Looking to get started or upgrade your system? We're recommending 10 downloads for everyone to try.
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How To Speed Up Your Ubuntu Updates/Upgrades
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I won't discuss about some complex Internet tweaking here, not that I know any :) Just a simple way to get the fastest speed you can get to download updates for your Ubuntu. How?
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gmusicbrowser: A Linux Music Player for Big Libraries (> 10,000 songs)
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gmusicbrowser is an open-source jukebox for large collections of mp3/ogg/flac/mpc files, written in perl.
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Is Ubuntu Bigger than Debian now?
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This week's Jaunty Jackalope release was Ubuntu's 10th release and the 9th release that I've used myself. I first became aware of Ubuntu in 2005 with the 'Hoary Hedgehog' release for only one reason, Debian Sarge was AWOL.
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Windows 7 free and legal until 2010
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It isn't often you can post about getting Windows for free, but Microsoft is actually giving away Windows 7 for a whole year to anyone who wants it.
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How To Upgrade Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) To 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) (Desktop & Server)
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Yesterday the new Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) was released. This guide shows how you can upgrade your Ubuntu 8.10 desktop and server installations to Ubuntu 9.04.
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A Weekend Look At OpenSolaris 2009.06
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It has been a while since last talking about OpenSolaris 2009.06 at Phoronix, but this weekend we decided to fire up Sun's latest build based upon the SXCE 111a build available from Genunix.
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openSUSE 11.1 Impressions
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I've never been a big fan of SuSE/openSUSE in the past. It's always felt like a mixed bag to me. Due to some coursework I need to perform for my university I felt I was best served by a distribution that has a very large package repository.
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Migration to Mepis 8.0 Complete
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Mepis 8.0 is working out just fine. I finally got VLC to play my media files, although Kaffiene and mplayer still just show a blue screen. I am now using Mepis as my fulltime/main desktop on my laptop.
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