It has been awhile since anyone has posted any updates about e17 (myself included). The enlightenment project is still moving along at good speed. The window manager for enlightenment - simply called e - is stable. I have been using it constantly since 2004 as my X desktop on both Linux and FreeBSD without any issues.
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Top Sites That Every BitTorrent User Should Know About
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The last few years have seen a tremendous growth in the number of BitTorrent users and the content that is available via BitTorrent. Nowadays it is no big deal if you can find a TV Show on BitTorrent before it has premiered on TV. The number of sites indexing and searching BitTorrent files have kept pace with this growth.
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Linux Guy and Windows Guy Walk a Mile in Each Other's Shoes
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What would happen if a Linux user switched to Windows. How about if a Windows enthusiast tried Linux? The results were surprising to both, and they illustrate just what needs to happen in order for Linux to finally break into the mainstream PC
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Review: OpenSUSE 11.1
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OpenSUSE (in various forms) has been around for quite some time and has been quite popular with developers and business users. It currently holds Distrowatch's number 2 spot on the page hit ranking and has a thriving community of users.
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Some things that I’d miss on moving from Linux to Windows
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The latest buzz surrounding Windows 7 has caused one observer to suggest that it’s about to blast Linux from the desktop. My experiences might be positive but there are still things that I like about Linux that make me reluctant to consider switching back. Here are a few in no particular order...
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Watch the Obama Inauguration Live on Linux with Moonlight
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Linux users rejoice. It is now possible to watch the Barack Obama Official Inauguration live via video stream. Thanks to Moonlight, the open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight, we will finally be able to see the much-awaited presidential inauguration from the comfort of our own Linux desktop.
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Qps Visual Process manager (X11 ps) in openSUSE
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Qps Visual Process Manager is an X11 version of “top” or “ps” that displays processes in a window and lets you sort and manipulate them. It displays some general system information, and many details about current processes (such as the TCP/UDP sockets in use by a process). Qps runs on Linux and Solaris.
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Three SMALL Linux Distributions
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The first thing you need to do when you start considering small Linux distributions is decide what your priorities are - what do you need it for and what are you planning to do with it? There are a number of different small/mini/tiny/whatever distributions available, and each has its own special strengths. I have been looking at three of them
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Step-By-Step: Migrating Your Desktop From Windows To Linux
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Once you've assessed your needs and have everyone in your business on board for your migration, it's time to get down to brass tacks. Fortunately, the Ubuntu Linux installation process makes it extremely easy, even for non-technical users, as you'll discover in the following
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Ubuntu Faster on My Internet Than Windows XP
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This isn't a rigorous benchmarked lab test yet, but I found something bizarre this morning... My Ubuntu machine returned a rating from the Bandwidth.com test of 22-25mbps over several tests. That's darn fast today, faster than normal. Then I did the same test from a Windows XP PC and got results from 12-14mbps.
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Plumi 0.2.3 released
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"Following the release of Plumi 0.2.2 last month, EngageMedia’s tech team is pleased to announce the release of a new version of its video-sharing application, Plumi 0.2.3 [...] Further down the track we will be exploring Firefogg integration (ogg transcoding / publishing via Firefox to Plumi), BitTorrent and many other exciting improvem
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Linux Shell Editing Shortcuts
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If you want to learn to use the Linux command line, you're going to have to do a lot of typing, and make sure you type everything accurately ... right? No! One of the secrets power shell users know is that they don't really have to be great typists. They take advantage of the typing shortcuts the shell offers.
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In Over My Head: Blinux
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For the past couple of years, I’ve been doing what little I could to assist a friend of mine going blind from Macular Degeneration... The experience has caused me to explore Linux for the Blind, or “Blinux.”
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ClipGrab - Download videos from online video sharing websites
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ClipGrab is a free GUI Video downloader from the famous online video sharing websites like youtube, veoh, Dailymotion, MyVideo and many other. ClipGrab is very simple (basically just one window to work on). Clipgrab downloads the file and saves it by default to FLV (Flash Video) however can convert the downloaded video on the fly to Windows Video (WMV), MPEG4, MP3 (Audio), OGG Vorbis (Audio).
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The best Ubuntu video editors
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A list of the best 8 Ubuntu video editors (install instructions for Ubuntu, they work on any linux distro)
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