Easy, quick and simple image resizing and rotating is important to many people. When using Windows, you're able to download and install the Image Resizer "PowerToy". You can then manipulate images directly from Windows Explorer. But how do you do the same task in Ubuntu?
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Canonical's $30 Million and Redmond's Gathering Storm
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Linux's gains are Microsoft's losses, and there were both aplenty in the past week, despite the best efforts of the Redmond crowd to tamp down enthusiasm for free OSes. Bloggers across the FLOSS world are speculating over what they see as a building storm headed straight for western Washington.
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Creating USB Startup Disks From Various Linux Distributions With UNetbootin
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This guide shows how you can create USB startup disks (on your USB flash drive) from various Linux distributions with UNetbootin. This is useful if you want to install a Linux distribution on a computer that has no CD/DVD drive.
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LGP Is Now Porting Shadowgrounds: Survivor
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These two games were supposed to be released for Linux (they are already available for Windows platforms) by last Spring, but that never came to fruition... Now it appears that Linux Game Publishing has been involved with porting Shadowgrounds: Survivor to Linux.
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Brilliant Brainstorms #45 - Window Shades
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Brilliant Brainstorms is a (usually) weekly summary of some of the best/most interesting brainstorms from the Ubuntu Brainstorm site. This week: workspace confusion; optimizing screen real-estate on netbooks; Wubi for Ubuntu Netbook Remix; and giving nautilus folder differentiation.
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EnterpriseDB and Sun Reaping Benefits from Open Source Databases
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There were new metrics out this week for both EnterpriseDB's PostgreSQL-centric database business, and Sun Microsystems' MySQL business. These players are at the forefront of challenging pricing for databases and surrounding services from competitors such as Oracle, and both are having strong success with strategies focused on open source databases.
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One of the many changes in xserver 1.6 is switching the DontZap option's default so that the ctrl-alt-backspace option does not trigger X to terminate unless the user deliberately configures it to do so.
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Healthcheck: OpenOffice
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The purchase of StarDivision, the makers of StarOffice, a German office "productivity suite", by Sun Microsystems in August 1999. The subsequent release to the free software community of the StarOffice code, in the shape of OpenOffice, came as a surprise to many.
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Canonical’s “Ubuntu 8.10 4GB Flash Drive”
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the Canonical Store’s description says, “This new and improved USB Flash drive not only comes with Ubuntu 8.10 pre-loaded, but can also hold a whopping 4GB of data that can be transferred to virtually any USB equipped machine. Who could say no?”. And indeed, he couldn’t say no, and bought one. Let’s have three cheers for that decision! :)
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Is Linux at the Precipice or at the Crossroads?
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Those of you who follow the state of Linux may realize that Linux is now at the precipice or "jumping off place" as an operating system. Linux, to others, is viewed as being at the crossroads for success. What's the difference, for Linux, in teetering at the precipice and standing at the crossroads?
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Where are the Designed for Linux stickers?
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Lets face it, when it comes to marketing, microsoft is the best. They are the only company that I know of which has successfully marketed a product that would not pass the lowest quality controls of any other products standards.
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Mumble 1.1.7 released
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Mumble, the low-latency VoIP application for games, has just released version 1.1.7 for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
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Making Slackware and Slackware Derivative Linux Distros Speak Your Language
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Slackware and some Linux distributions based on Slackware don't include GDM and don't have a graphical tool to set language and locale on the fly. However, if you're willing to edit one or two configuration files and install a few packages you can make Slackware speak your language, working in whatever language you are most comfortable with.
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uSbuntu Live Creator - Create LiveUSBs from Windows using a GUI
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uSbuntu Live Creator does almost the same thing as the USB Live Creator included in the 8.10 except it has more features. It is working with Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu and it allows you to run your USB key directly in windows without any software installation nor configuration, using a special portable version of VirtualBox.
It's really easy to use.
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Is KDE 4.2 the Answer to the Linux Desktop?
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Is the Linux desktop ready for mainstream users? The developers behind the latest KDE Linux desktop release would probably say yes, that it lives up to the promise of the first KDE 4.0 release a year ago. KDE 4.2 is the second major point release for the KDE 4.x desktop. Its codename, "The Answer," also telegraphs its goals.
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