Ubuntu always had a super challenging task of proving worthy to desktop users. This task is Ubuntu’s burden twice as heavy as any other operating systems simply because there weren’t enough believers in the world to back it up.
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Linux Only, Two Months Later
Since I built my new PC roughly two months ago, I have been running Linux (Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit) as my primary operating system, and I have not looked back.
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LightScribe - Simple Labeler Install in Ubuntu
LightScribe is an innovative technology that uses a special disc drive, special media, and label-making software to burn labels directly onto CDs and DVDs. Because the labels are laser-etched—not printed—there;s no ink, no smudging, and no peeling.
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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #95
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #95 for the week June 8th - June 14th, 2008.
Read more »How Firefox Outran the Hounds
Firefox has risen from humble beginnings -- it was assembled from the scraps left over when Netscape was left for dead -- to become a real thorn in the side of Microsoft. Now, as it prepares to go live with its third version, the open source project's leadership promises more innovation.
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42 of the Best Commercial Linux Games
Are there many high quality commercial games available for Linux? That's one of the frequently asked questions we receive in our mailbox every week.
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Slackware tips — quick and easy things to make the box work better
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FolderView is the awesome?!
So there has been a lot of confusion about the KDE 4 desktop and FolderView lately and some nasty stuff I don’t want to go into right now. In the comments to Aaron’s blog someone said they don’t see how exactly it will be better and help them be more productive. So let me show you it
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krank - a little casual game
krank is a game of dexterity, being somewhere between Breakout and billiard, where the aim of each level is to shove floating stones towards compatible static stones. You control a short chain of stones with your mouse to achieve that.
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Desktops in trouble
there are some disturbing developments and they are happening in the key components of our systems: the desktop. KDE has spawned a new release, KDE 4.x, and although it looked promising at first, KDE is in trouble. People are not only complaining about its instability (which is not a good thing in itself) but also about the direction KDE is taking. It is a change of paradigm.
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The Big Three Review: Firefox, Opera and Konqueror
Review of three most popular web browsers on Linux: Firefox, Opera and Konqueror. The article talks about each browser's features, strong and weak points, advantages. Screenshots included.
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Firefox Mobile Concept Video
All of the images and videos are only conceptual mockups of an experimental UI for Firefox Mobile, any particular feature may end up looking entirely different, or may not even make it into the final release.
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The Definitive Guide to VoIP for Linux Users
Have you tried lately to figure out which Linux operating system you’d like to use? And, did you think about adding a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) device to that Linux system? We can guess that you probably overwhelmed with the choices available to VoIP users today. In fact, to write a truly definitive guide to VoIP for Linux users, we would need to write a book.
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Eight lost Openbox themes
A long time ago I found some Openbox themes that were made by a person named Sebastian Sareyko, who had a string of home pages at http://smoon.homelinux.org/, http://nooms.de and http://sareyko.net/. All of those sites are abandoned now and I don’t know if Sebastian has another home.
Read more »When Desktop Disaster Strikes, Linux Rides To The Rescue
A friend in need, the saying goes, is a friend indeed. And the next time your Windows PC goes belly-up at the worst possible time, your new best friend just might turn out to be a Linux rescue CD.
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