Want to run Linux any time, any place? Here's what to do with popular distributions like Puppy Linux, Ubuntu, and Fedora, so you can boot up directly from your thumb drive.
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What's the "Linux Tax" Worth to You?
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In When Do You Trade in Your Gibbon for a Heron?, I mentioned that I’m considering upgrading my System76 laptop from Gutsy Gibbon to Hardy Heron. A commenter named Scummy suggested that a similarly configured Dell system is cheaper: "Dude - you just paid a $350 ‘Linux Tax’ by NOT going mainstream in your hardware…" Maybe so, but I think not. It depends on what you value.
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New Ubuntu Version Fixes A Lot of Linux Problems
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Hardy Hero, a new version of Ubuntu, was announced a little while ago, and the features for this release of Ubuntu are actually rather compelling to me. Because Gutsy only wowed me on two levels - a better wireless stack and the inclusion of tracker by default, here’s some of what I would like to see with Heron.
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Mandriva 2008.1 Review: The Breath Of Fresh Air
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Check out the comprehensive review of Mandriva 2008.1 Spring Edition/
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Tweak photos with Fotox
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Compared to powerful and feature-rich photo applications like F-Spot and digiKam, Fotox looks decidedly underpowered. But while Fotox is no match to those powerhouses featurewise, this lightweight tool can come in handy when you have to perform basic photo editing fast and with minimum fuss.
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Grandmom’s Guide to the Asus Eee PC
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Well, my itsy bitsy teeny weenie seven inch Asus Eee PC finally arrived with the relatives visiting for fiesta season. I had bought it in the US six months ago, but it was back-ordered and not delivered on time. So my grandson Luke has been using it in the meanwhile.
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Manage your personal accounts at home with homebank in Ubuntu
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HomeBank is free software. Use it to manage your personal accounts. It is designed to easy to use. Analyse your finances in detail using powerful filtering tools and graphs.
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Extract Mac Font Files (.dfont) into .ttf Files
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Have you ever been in a situation where you desperately need a copy of a font for something you’re working on, but you can only seem to find a copy in the wrong format? Often this can happen, and you have the font elsewhere, but it’s not in the standard .ttf format you expect.
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Creating large graphs with Tulip
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Tulip a framework that allows you to create, visualize, manipulate, and export large graphs. Tulip can import graphs from the popular Graphviz package and allows you to export a graph visualization in a number of bitmap image formats as well as SVG and EPS for eventual inclusion into a PDF file.
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Extensions for OpenOffice.org Draw
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Draw is probably the most under-estimated of the OpenOffice.org applications. Either users seem to expect it to be equivalent to the GIMP or Visio, or they fail to see its desktop publishing possibilities -- but in all cases they are disappointed. Probably, that explains why the OpenOffice.org Extensions page has only a handful of Draw extensions.
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Linux Format Mega-Distro DVD
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Back in the Dark Ages of my home computer, when I was running Windows full time, I was quite the “Distro Dabbler”. I was forever downloading ISOs of various Linux distributions, burning them on a CD and trying them out by installing it on an unused partitions. Until finally, about two years ago, I bit the bullet and moved off of Windows forever (well, except for some gaming).
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5 Great Alternative To Photoshop
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Adobe Photoshop is a great product. I have been using it since 2003 and I simply love its functionality and ease of use. If there is anything to complaint about, then it has to be the high cost (US$649) involved in buying the software.
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Find and fix weak OpenSSL/OpenSSH keys: Debian-based Linux vulnerability
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A recent vulnerability was found in the OpenSSL package as provided by Debian and Debian-based Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, that broke the effectiveness of the OpenSSL PRNG (Predictable Random Number Generator). This vulnerability caused OpenSSL to generate weak keys for anything relying on OpenSSL, including SSL certificates, OpenSSH keys, and OpenVPN keys.
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Screencast Video of the New Run Dialog for KDE 4.1
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KRunner in 4.0.x was not meant to be a production interface. Just under the wire for the feature freeze, KDE team managed to get a new user interface that they've been working on for KDE 4.1. It provides a much nicer experience including more speed, solid stability, better usability, more configurability and fun eye candy.
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firefox 3.0 Release Candidate 1 available for download
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Mozilla Firefox project (formerly Firebird, which was formerly Phoenix) is a redesign of Mozilla's browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform. It includes a popup blocker, tabbed browsing, a smarter search, hassle free downloading, and improved privacy and security.
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