A few months ago we looked at OpenSolaris, Sun's effort to get the community involved in its Unix flavour. Now Susan Linton explores some of the spin-off projects that have popped up, including MilaX, Belenix and Nexenta...
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Fact Vs. Friction: Picking The Right Open-Source Office Suite
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Open-source politics can be a nasty and pointless business. That's why it's usually a good idea for users to avoid it like the plague.
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Get Organized with Wiki in a Jar
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While TiddlyWiki is probably the most popular desktop wiki out there, it’s not the only fish in the sea. And if you don’t fancy TiddlyWiki’s approach to managing content, or you are looking for a desktop wiki that can help you to manage not only your notes but also appointments and contacts, then you might want to try Wiki in a Jar.
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The beauty of AUR
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In my not-so-important opinion, one of the shining stars of Linux is Arch Linux, and one of the crowning points of Arch Linux is the AUR, which is so delightfully simple and and the same time terrifyingly powerful, that I am at times amazed that it isn’t a fixture in every distro, across the board.
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New Volume Control Interface For GNOME
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One of the items being worked on by Red Hat for Fedora 11 is making the GNOME volume control and sound preferences area more intuitive and easier to use.
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Firefox to use Chrome-like tabs
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Mozilla has announced a subtle but significant change to Firefox, tweaking the way tabs work on the browser.
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Linux is the Engine Under the Hood of Instant On
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Waiting for a laptop or desktop to boot has to be one of the biggest time wasters for the majority of computer users no matter what the operating system. You would think with faster CPUs that the problem would just go away, but it hasn't. In fact, if anything, it has gotten worse.
Read more »Whither Fedora?
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I suppose that the calm is also a reflection of the fact that Ubuntu has matured but there is a sense that some changes may be on the horizon. For one thing, there are the opinions of a certain Mark Shuttleworth but the competition is progressing too.
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Emacs todo-list-mode
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"Although it wasn’t on my todo-list, I really had a hankering to add some auto-color highlighting to mine. So I created a pretty basic major-mode for Emacs which I call todo-list-mode..."
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Create SSL Certificate with godaddy.com
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I had a client who needed an official SSL Certificate and had an account at godaddy.com. I have to confess, I really did not want anything to do with godaddy.com, based on their advertising methods and responses students and clients had made about them, nothing criminal just hard to get things done or changed.
Read more »Free Ways to approach Ubuntu from Windows
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For Windows Users: Apart the rhetoric that Linux is not Windows, how can one gradually get used to this different way of conceiving an operating system? Ubuntu has many killer applications Windows users can benefit from.
Read more »Suite freedom: a review of GIMP 2.6.4
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This is the first time that I'm reviewing GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program), and it's definitely long overdue. As the open-source image editor of choice, the feature list of GIMP 2.6 is very long, and despite its status as a free application, it's as feature-packed as any commercial application.
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12 Amazing and Essential Linux Books To Enrich Your Brain and Library
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The 12 Linux books mentioned here by no means are comprehensive or authoritative list. But, these 12 Books are few of my favorites that I enjoyed reading over the years and I strongly believe will enhance your technical abilities on Linux, if you have not read them yet.
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Making eye candy for GRUB
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One of the cool things about custom distributions of GNU/Linux is that they usually have better "eye-candy". However, it's not really that hard to provide your own. If you are setting up a multiple boot system, the GRUB boot menu will be an important startup step; remarkably enough, it is possible to include some graphics even as early as the boot menu.
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Free Software Song Rocks!
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I still find the Free Software Song inspiring in some way although I know it will never ever win a Grammy Award or whatever. So, I thought I would share this to all of you especially those who are starting to lose faith in free software. Also, to all FOSS developers and advocates who are looking for some motivation, perhaps this will help.
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