Sometimes you just want to make quick edits to a HTML, CSS or JavaScript file and launching an IDE is just overkill. Ideally you want to open the editor quickly, edit the file, save and quit. Nothing more, nothing less. If there is some code highlighting or code completion that's great but not essential.
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How to choose the best Linux distro for you
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At the time of writing, there are three hundred and twenty three distributions being tracked on distrowatch.com. This is the world of choice, and it's a world made possible by free and open source software.
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First look: Ubuntu 9.04 stays the course
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Having rocketed to prominence as one of the most popular desktop Linux distributions in just a few years, Ubuntu has earned a reputation for stability and ease-of-use. The latest edition -- version 9.04, code-named "Jaunty Jackalope" -- continues that tradition and is mostly a maintenance release, but it brings a number of updates that should enhance its appeal.
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Kontact: The Swiss Army Knife of PIMs
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If you’ve ever used a PIM (Personal Information Manager) you know how important they can be for both business and personal organization. Most users know Microsoft Outlook. Most Linux users know Evolution. But there is another PIM out there that has more to offer than any other PIM available.
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Creating A Bootable Ubuntu USB Thumbdrive From Windows With uSbuntu Live Creator
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uSbuntu Live Creator is a free software for Windows that allows you to create a bootable USB stick with Ubuntu 8.10 on it. This software also offers a new option for virtualization to run Ubuntu directly into Windows and without any setup or installation - this is done by using a portable version of VirtualBox.
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Discover New Packages with goplay
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goplay is an interesting browser application that allows you to locate nifty packages for Debian-based distributions. It uses DebTags, the built-in descriptive categories used in the repositories, to locate new packages. There's a whole slew of pre-made package browsers at your disposal, such as...
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Fix for flash not working after Jaunty Upgrade (64bit)
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After upgrading from Ubuntu 8.10 amd64 to Ubuntu 9.04 amd64 I was getting error messages from flash sites like Youtube telling me to install the latest Adobe Flash or to turn on javascript reinstalling the plugin from synaptic didn't solve the problem
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Arch Linux 2009.02: More solid, same work
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Arch Linux is a strange beast. It's closer to Gentoo than anything else, and even that comparison is imperfect. It's a do-it-yourself, minimalist OS that has everything I don't want in a desktop.
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Lin-X: A Quick Review
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Recently a new Linux distribution was born, called Lin-X. Based off Ubuntu 8.10, and designed to look like Mac OS X, it grabbed my attention.
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Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu: What Does It All Mean?
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Ubuntu Linux isn't just an operating system -- it's an ecosystem. Here is a quick guide to help you wind your way through this desktop jungle.
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24 Open Source Apps for the ASUS Netbook
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Eighteen short months ago, Taiwanese manufacturer Asus debuted the Eee, the netbook that launched the latest craze for small, lightweight, inexpensive laptops. And then they got to work – creating new open source apps specifically for the Eee and similar netbooks.
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Experimenting with Alternate Desktop Managers
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I have been recently been looking into desktop managers other than Gnome and KDE. Fortunately, with Ubuntu (and probably others) it is relatively easy to download and install several such desktop managers, and then choose between them on login.
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Ubuntu Karmic development kicks off
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With Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) now safely out the door the Ubuntu team has kicked off Karmic Koala development, the next major release scheduled for October this year.
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Sabayon Linux 4.1 KDE: Stable release
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Dedicated to those who like order over chaos, to those who like simplicity over complexity, to those who think that less is more, to those that just want more for less.
Read more »Fedora 11 Preview
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Red Hat is expecting to deliver the final release of Fedora 11 in just less than one month, but today they have offered up a preview build of this next open-source Linux distribution update that is known as Leonidas. This afternoon we have screenshots.
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