"Brilliant Brainstorms is a weekly summary of some of the best/most interesting brainstorms from the Ubuntu Brainstorm site." This week there are suggestions on: carrying profiles on usb pens, handling file saving and countdown timers at shutdown, themes, and file archives.
Read more »Brilliant Brainstorms (#21) - User Mobility
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Zile 2.2.61 released
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"...This release uses gnulib for regex, getopt, vasprintf, and various other features, rather than previous ad hoc solutions, to improve portability..."
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More fun than it looks: Compiz + MPX (video)
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I found a modified version of compiz here which allows MPX support. I have a video for you!
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12 Hot Products To See At LinuxWorld
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Thousands of the Linux faithful will converge on San Francisco's Moscone Center next week (Aug. 4-7) for the LinuxWorld conference and expo and the accompanying Next Generation Data Center show. Everything from cool hand-held devices to data center-class servers -- and the open-source software to run them -- will be on display and put through their paces on the show floor.
Read more »Dotclear 2.0 released
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"Just before leaving the hotel for a new trip, I'm really pleased to announce the release of dotclear 2.0. Trust me, it's a good one!" (Dotclear is free software licensed under the GPL) --
* Sotie de Dotclear 2.0: http://www.dotclear.net/blog/post/2008/08/01/Sortie-de-Dotclear-20
* Get Involved & Translate Dotclear in your own language: http://www.dotclear.net/translate
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Pretty is a feature, but ugly is subjective
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You can’t make the desktop that attracts hordes to Ubuntu because that same desktop is ugly to another distinct horde. And so we’re back to where we started: Someone else decides what’s beautiful, and you change it.
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Boxee: A New Competitor For MythTV?
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MythTV now has a new competitor and that is Boxee. Boxee is a "social media center" that is based upon the Xbox Media Center (XBMC) with versions for Linux, Windows, and MacOS X.
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UNIX on the beach
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Two babes read UNIX book on the beach. If you have a digg account, you can also dugg this : http://digg.com/linux_unix/UNIX_on_the_beach_2
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20 Most Nimble and Simple X Window Managers for Linux
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One of the best ways to speed up your Linux desktop is to utilize an ultra-lightweight window manager. To all speed-conscious techies, minimalist lovers, and to those who are still hoping to revive their ageing computer hardware, let me introduce you to the 20 most nimble and simple X window managers for Linux.
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TweetDeck on Ubuntu
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I just installed the Twitter client TweetDeck on my Ubuntu laptop (Fiesty Fawn v. 7.04). In the short time I have played with it, it seems to be working as well as my Windows-based app. The Adobe AIR framework is in alpha for Linux and so it is anyone’s guess what ultimately will happen.
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Online Word Processors Worth A Try
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If you a looking for an alternative to OpenOffice, web applications are becoming an extremely good option. Of course. Most people know about Google Docs, but there are many other alternatives. In order to help you narrow your search, below is a list of some of your options as well as a short description.
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Free Disk Space from APT’s Cache
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Ubuntu doesn’t require a lot of disk space to install, but if you’ve installed in a virtual machine with a small virtual drive, or partitioned most of your disk for your /home, you may need to free up some space on a system occasionally.
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Ultamatix may be a worthy successor to Automatix for new Ubuntu and Debian users
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Some Ubuntu fans out there may remember Automatix, a tool for Ubuntu that allowed easy access to many popular non-free applications and commonly-used audio and video codecs.
Read more »Banshee 1.2 released!
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Banshee 1.2 just released - download it now! Lots of features!
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Picking a Penguin
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For no good reason other than curiosity (and a bloated XP install that gets slower by the hour) the inner geek in me has been looking for a competent Linux distribution to try...Since I first started experimenting most of the distros have improved greatly, and in the last month or so I’ve gotten several different varieties to keep my interest.
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