I've been working on a letter and needed a little bit of input. I called my brother Dave and he said he'd take a look at what I had composed so far.
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How to be Your Own Linux Tech Support
When I first began using Linux, I was fortunate that I had a few friends around who knew it well, and were able to answer my questions and provide support. Not everyone is so lucky.
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Mozilla Cooking Firefox 3.5, Forget Firefox 3.1
In the Firefox Product Delivery Meeting Details, Mozilla notes that “version numbering [would advance from] 3.1 -> 3.5 to indicate increased scope.
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Copy Shell Prompt Output To Linux / UNIX X Clipboard Directly
You can copy command line output to X Windows clipboard directly using xclip command. You can read from standard input (keyboard), or from one or more files, and makes the data available as an X selection for pasting into any X applications such as gedit, OpenOffice or Firefox / email client.
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Trying Xubuntu
Recently, I found my Ubuntu 8.10 a bit slower than before. I think it is because of the applications I installed that makes it slow. My system is getting bloated and I even Firefox is getting slower to open up. So I decided to install Xubuntu.
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Control which application launches when you attach your MP3 player - Ubuntu
So you plug in your iPod, and Rhythmbox automatically starts up. But maybe you want GTKPod to start up, or maybe you don’t want any application to automatically launch when you attach your music player. Here’s how to control this...
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The Argument for Buying Linux Pre-Installed
One of the things you hear a lot is that Macs "just work." As nicely described in this article, Linux "just works" just as well if you only run it on hardware it was designed to run on. I would like to take the post one step further, though. I would recommend that new Linux users, perhaps after testing out the Live CD for a bit, should actually buy a computer with Linux pre-installed.
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KDE 4.2.1 provides the "Cream" on top of KDE
It has been a little more than a month since you were able to install the latest and greatest KDE on release day. Today is another one of those with KDE 4.2.1 (codenamed "Cream") hitting the shelves.
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Dream Linux 3.5 - An Excellent New Release
I got interested in the new release of Dream Linux (3.5) because it is supposed to make it easy to create your own customised ISO boot image. I thought that if I could get it set up and configured on the HP 2133, and then make an ISO of that, that would be really useful.
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Open Source, it is not just for Linux anymore
I was involved in an email discussion the other day with a fellow Amateur Radio operator about a program called UI-View. I was informed that the source code had been destroyed on the author’s death, at his request. This made me pause.
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Text is not enough!
In the dawn of modern computing, there was only text. And the text was good. You can do a lot with text: write equations or sonnets, describe intricate computer subsystems or a fine spring day. But people are visual as well as verbal creatures, and there is simply no substitute for graphical communications.
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Quick look around XFCE 4.6
I went for lightweight and speedy. That meant, of course, Arch, but also ext4 and the latest XFCE. Yes, XFCE isn’t the lightest solution I could have gone for. It’s no awesome, or evilwm, or even Openbox, but I was curious about the new 4.6 release, and I wanted to keep things relatively easy.
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4 Great Tools to Find Files Quickly
As is true with most things in Linux, there are great desktop tools, but more power can be found in Terminal than any streamlined desktop tool can match. Today, I’d like to introduce you to a few tools.
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Hands-on: fat-free Xfce 4.6 has nice new features
GNOME and KDE reign supreme on the Linux desktop, but there are many lesser-known desktop environments that are increasingly popular among users who are looking for lightweight alternatives that deliver more streamlined interfaces and a functional user experience with less overhead.
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First Look: moonOS 2
Though my past experiences with Enlightenment weren't very fruitful, seeing the recent Elive Compiz made me want to see more of this unique window manager. So I started looking through the available options and I stumbled upon moonOS.
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