Why are open source file sharing applications so popular? The answer to that question may be obvious to some, but the explosion in paid-for, online digital content services in recent years hasn't dented the download rates of free file sharing applications.
Read more »Top of the charts: five open source file sharing apps
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OpenOffice.org extension will add PDF editing
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Easy PDF editing is coming to OpenOffice.org, but you'll have to be patient for a few months. Recently posted to the OpenOffice.org Extensions site, the Sun PDF Import extension (SPI) is only in beta, and only works with recent developer builds of OpenOffice.org 3.0, which is scheduled for September release.
Read more »There’s Something About Pardus 2008
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Because Pardus 2007 left a lasting impression on me, I have been eagerly waiting for its next release. So when the stable version of Pardus 2008 came out just recently, I never hesitated to try and test this promising distro from Turkey once again.
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Apricot - Open-Source Blender Game
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Apricot is the newest project from the Blender Institute with the goal to build an open-source game instead of a Blender video this time. The characters used in the game are from the Big Buck Bunny movie, the last free movie developed using Blender under the name Project Peach.
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Eee Monitor shots reveal Linux's iMac rival
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ASUS' Eee Monitor today has been captured in official photos that confirm the system to be the company's direct answer to the iMac, according to LAPTOP.
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An introduction to the Kismet packet sniffer
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Kismet is a wireless "detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system," and one of the growing list of essential open source tools for computer network security professionals. Kismet runs on any POSIX-compliant platform, including Windows, Mac OS X, and BSD, but Linux is the preferred platform because it has more unencumbered RFMON-capable drivers than any of the others
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10 Top Downloaded Firefox 3 Themes
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Most of us already have Firefox 3 downloaded and installed. If you don’t, head over to Mozilla.com and download a copy. So here it is, a quick list of the top downloaded themes for Firefox 3.
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Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 1 Screenshot Tour
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Here is the screenshot tour of this first alpha version of Ubuntu 8.10
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The critics are wrong: KDE 4 doesn't need a fork
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After the recent release KDE 4.1 beta 2 and openSUSE 11 with KDE 4.0.4, some critics have been especially vocal in expressing their displeasure with the KDE 4 user interface paradigms. The debate has grown increasingly caustic as critics and supporters engage in a war of words over the technology.
Read more »SMPlayer Review - One of the Most Powerful Video Players for Linux
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SMPlayer is a complete video player built in Qt 4.4.0 and based on the powerful, open-source MPlayer.
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IOzone for filesystem performance benchmarking
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IOzone lets you benchmark your filesystem performance, seeing how well record IO occurs for files of various sizes. With IOzone you can see more detailed information than the read, write, and rewrite figures that Bonnie++ reports. IOzone is great at detecting areas where file IO might not be performing as well as expected.
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9 Web browsers for Linux
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Firefox is a great web browser, there is absolutely no argument about that. However those of us who are using linux long enough have went by quite well without it, and some still do. In the spirit of linux and open source (not so much for opera), it is only fair that we are aware of alternate options for linux browsers out there.
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Little utilities for Linux desktop users — Visibility
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Visibility is really a nifty little utility for Linux desktop users. It’s very lightweight and easy configuration. The following is brief introduction of Visibility: Visibility is a pager-like thing for your desktop, showing the icons of open windows.
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Howto install and configure gDesklets in Ubuntu hardy
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gDesklets is a system for bringing mini programs (desklets), such as weather forecasts, news tickers, system information displays, or music player controls, onto your desktop, where they are sitting there in a symbiotic relationship of eye candy and usefulness.
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Expert tip: Print booklets in Scribus
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Scribus, a free, open source desktop publishing application, offers a wide range of page layout features, but one thing it lacks is the ability to print booklets. Fortunately, I've come across a simple procedure that lets you work around this issue. Here's how to do it in Linux; Windows users should be able to follow along too.
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