Although I'm a KDE fan, after the last Kubuntu release (8.04 - LTS) I was a little disappointed, so I decided to try Ubuntu 8.10, which is going to be the next release of this wonderful distribution, codenamed 'Intrepid Ibex'. Ubuntu is definitely the most popular Linux distribution, also occupying the top position at page hits on Distrowatch.com for almost 4 years now.
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HowTo: Install and setup MLDonkey on Gentoo
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"...To cater to my brother's P2P needs I decided to install MLDonkey without X11 support leaving only the core with both telnet and web interfaces. The target computer was my 1.3GHz Pentium-M laptop headless server (faulty display) running Gentoo Hardened located at my parents house..."
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Command Line Bookmarks
http://www.onderstekop.nl –
bm is a program that can make life at the terminal a little easier when you often have to deal with a couple of directories at the same time. It can be used to keep bookmarks of directories you use regularly
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Stupid Firefox Tricks, Part I
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Firefox ... we use it all day, for everything from managing finances to socializing to playing games. But it's a large and complicated programs. Are you getting the most out of your browser?
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DarkStat - Network traffic & bandwidth monitoring in openSUSE
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DarkStat is a simple Packet Sniffing Network Traffic/Bandwidth monitoring utility for Linux and UNIX. DarkStat presents simple webinterface with nice graphs and stats auto-refreshed. Darkstat uses a very low footprint and the memory, CPU usage and is used in pfSense, redWall opensource firewalls.
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Claws Mail - opensource light-weight Email client in openSUSE
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Claws Mail is a free opensource lightweight, user friendly and fast email client for Linux. Claws Mail is a quick response email client with easy configuration, intuitive operation and abundant features, extensibility, robustness and stability.
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QVideoConverter - Convert Video Files (AVI/MPEG) to DivX in openSUSE
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QVideoConverter is a simple video converter to convert Video files or DVDs to Divx Videos. QVideoConverter is a simple frontend GUI for mencoder which converts the videos to DivX format. QVideoConverter can auto detect the the Real Video Area and can Normalize video. QVideoConverter allows you to set the Bitrate, file size (MB), Framerate and Video resolution.
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How to Convert videos to the Ipod format
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thin liquid film (TLF) is an application which allows linux users to quickly and easily convert video files into a format suitable for playing on the video capable ipods (i.e. 5th and 6th generation ipods).
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Fancy chapter headings with TikZ
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"A question on LaTeX-Community.org inspired me to try pgf/TikZ together with titlesec to produce fancy chapter headings. The result is this small compilable demonstration example: ..."
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7 Days of M1530 - Advanced User’s Guide to a New Ubuntu Computer
http://www.linuxloop.com –
After doing a guide for a beginner setting up a new computer with Ubuntu, I decided to follow up with some Ubuntu setup tips for more advanced users:
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wubi: Best Thing Since LiveCD
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Wubi (Windows-based Ubuntu Installer) is amazing. It’s one of those tools that should make 100s if not 1000s of people to try out Linux right away.
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Sometimes It Won't Work
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A few annoyances, and I really hope this will be fun. I wrote it last night. Some things which don't work as they are supposed to, or some things which may be annoying - Linux forever, I love it, but sometimes it's not so funny fun as it should be.
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Byzanz - free opensource Desktop Recording (command-line) tool
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Byzanz is a free opensource GNOME based Command-Line utility to capture desktop recording software for linux. This should probably be the coolest command-line utility that I have seen in recent days. Byzanz records your desktop session to an animated GIF. You can record your entire screen, a single window, an arbitrary region or even follow the cursor.
Read more »Picasa 3 for Linux: A video tour
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Google's Picasa is all about photos -- it helps you instantly find, edit, and share all the pictures on your computer. Although it isn't released as open source it is free to download and use from Google's Web site. The new version 3, which is currently in beta, is available for Windows as well as Linux.
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Krusader - Advanced Twinpanel File Manager in openSUSE
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Krusader is an advanced twin panel (commander style) file manager for KDE and other desktops in the *nix world, similar to Midnight or Total Commander.
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