A review on Wine 1.0 RC2 testing World of WarCraft, DC++ and mIRC.
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Screencast Presenting Some of the New Features in KDE 4.1
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A video which shows you how much KDE 4.1 is different from 4.0. Too many things are going on and it is impossible to make a screencast that shows all the new features and all the stuff. This one will give you an idea of how things are going, and how KDE 4.1 currently looks like.
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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #93
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #93 for the week May 25th - May 31st, 2008. In this issue we cover: new Ubuntu Membership approval process, new Ubuntu Members, new LoCo approval process, LinuxTag 2008, Launchpad 1.2.5, Launchpod episode #3, Forum Tutorial of the week, Ubuntu UK Podcast #6, Full Circle Magazine #13, Team Reports, and much, much more!
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The Ebox from ASUS: Looks great, costs little, runs Linux
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From the rumor/leak mill comes ASUS' move of its eee platform to the desktop. Just look at this thing. Yes, it's cooler than a Mac. And way cheaper.
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The New Default Plasma Desktop Theme for KDE 4.1
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Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you the brand new shiny Plasma theme that will be used for KDE 4.1. You can see the new applet and KRunner backgrounds, the new panel, our brand-new carbon fiber clock and some items that once upon a time weren't themed at all, like the pager and the taskbar. The theming support is now even more extensive.
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Firefox Or Flock? Or Both?
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With a release candidate of Firefox 3 upon us and the final version set to drop sometime in June, I'm finding myself a bit torn: Do I upgrade to FF3 once it's fully baked, or stay with my current browser?
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Change Firefox 3's URL bar behavior
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Mozilla, makers of Firefox, a popular alternative to Safari on many users' machines, will very shortly release Firefox 3--the product is currently at release candidate stage, which typically means a final release is imminent. The latest version of Mozilla's browser includes a number of new features to make browsing faster, easier, and perhaps even more fun.
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A Fine Piece: Rhythmbox 0.11.5
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Today I decided to review Rhythmbox 0.11.5, the GNOME audio player. At first glance, Rhythmbox made me a good impression: the layout is simple and clean, similar in many ways to many other players for GNOME, like Banshee, Listen or Exaile.
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One of My Favourites: Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
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Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (or ET for short) is a FPS (First Person Shooter) game, native for Linux, which borrows concepts from Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and uses the Quake 3 engine.
Read more »Emacs Gnus: Organize Your Mail
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"People handle large volumes of mail in different ways. Keeping everything in one mailbox can quickly become unmanageable because messages you need to read get lost among messages you don’t need to read. [...] Moving messages by hand is tedious and time-consuming. One way to deal with this is to set up rules that automatically file mail into different groups ..." (by Sacha Chua)
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Gnome Music Player Showdown
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I’ve been reading a lot of reviews recently about the upcoming Banshee 1.0. (Arstechnica and Linux Magazine, for example) It looks like it’s going to be an awesome release, but I wanted to see where it is now and compare that to Rhythmbox.
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Synergy - Sharing Keyboard and Mouse
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Not to be confuse with the latest boardroom buzz word, synergy is a nice little application that allows the sharing of keyboard and mouse services between up to 4 physical boxes. Synergy lets you use one keyboard and mouse across multiple computers. To do so it requires that all the computers are connected to each other via TCP/IP networking.
Read more »Enable the Advanced File Permissions Dialog in Nautilus
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Yesterday I wrote about PCMan File Manager, which among other things offers better control over file permissions. Commenter Gavintlgold pointed out that’s it’s possible to get a similar dialog in Nautilus by changing a hidden setting in GNOME.
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Dell's "mini-Inspiron" Eee PC killer revealed
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...we're looking at 8.9-inches dolled up in a sub-$500 price tag with a choice of both Windows XP Home or Ubuntu Linux, 8-in-1 card reader, integrated webcam, direct media playback buttons, and a "host of wireless access options."
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Emacs Gnus: Searching Mail
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"There are several ways to find messages in Emacs. From the summary buffer, you can use / o (gnus-summary-insert-old-articles) to display all or some old messages. You can then scan through the headers in the summary buffer by using C-s (isearch-forward), or you can limit the displayed messages with these commands: ..."
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