Critics are calling 'Jaunty Jackalope' as slick and seamless as Mac OS X. We uncover the Linux distro's pitfalls and gotchas.
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FreeBSD 7.2 Review
FreeBSD is just plain old good UNIX with rock solid networking stack. It is quite popular amongst hosting companies, ISPs, portals (such as Yahoo) and a few large financial institutions because of its reliability, robustness and performance.
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App Runner Makes Launching Linux Executables Easier
The Jaunty Jackalope release celebration continues. App Runner adds items to the Gnome context menu to launch executables or scripts directly from the GUI—even letting you easily run as root.
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In Praise of Gparted
Gnome Partition Editor (gparted) has really been fantastic. Using it, I have added, removed, moved, enlarged and shrunk all sorts of partitions, all without ever losing anything.
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Kdenlive: Video Editing Breakthrough
In my view, it has for a number of years now been the greatest failing of Linux: video editors have been a joke. No one who is serious about video editing could really be happy in the least with the sorry state of non-linear video editing apps.
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Speed up Common Tasks with Launchy
There are quite a few good launcher utilities out there that can make a great addition to your productivity arsenal. Gnome Do is probably the most popular, but if you are looking for something less flashy and more streamlined, try Launchy.
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openSUSE 11.1 KDE4 Reloaded
While 11.2 is still months away there’s still plenty of activity going on with openSUSE. In addition to last week’s milestone release, you can also get your hands on openSUSE 11.1 Reloaded. This is a respin of openSUSE 11.1, including KDE 4.2.2 packages and updates to 11.1.
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Where am I?
One of the up-and-coming features in Plasma, thanks particularly to Petri Damstén, is the geolocation DataEngine - a backend for determining where in the world the user is.
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Are Careless Linux Users Giving Ext4 A Bad Rap?
There is a new Linux file system in town, and some people see it as a menace. But the real problem may have more to do with users who ignore simple, common-sense IT practices.
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Gnote is a Lot Faster and a Lot Lighter Than Tomboy
Gnote offers performance advantages over Tomboy, which is based on Novell's Mono
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Why prefer Mandriva over another distribution?
What is the the advantage of Mandriva above other distributions like Ubuntu, OpenSUSE and Fedora. I wrote down a couple of reasons why I use Mandriva on my desktop systems.
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New Sauerbraten Release Is Imminent
Within the next few days we should see the first 2009 release of Sauerbraten and it brings a host of new features. In this article is a rundown on some of the key features along with screenshots we captured when running their latest Subversion code.
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Kubuntu 9.04 Out in the Wild
The Kubuntu Team is proud to announce the release of Kubuntu 9.04, the Jaunty Jackalope!
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Mythbuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Is Here!
After a long and exciting development cycle the Mythbuntu team is proud to introduce Mythbuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope. We would like to thank everyone that contributed in getting our fourth release out the door
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3 Ways to Record Your Linux Desktop
In this article I'll include three ways to screencast your Linux desktop with the help of recordMyDesktop, XVidCap and Istanbul. These three applications are included in every major distribution.
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