If you've flirted with the idea of switching your desktop operating system to Linux but never took the leap, the time is now. This week's release of Hardy Heron, an Ubuntu release that will be supported until 2011, offers a freer, more productive space for work and play than ever before.
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Hardy Heron? Hardly
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Another thing which is a trifle annoying is the amount of time taken to boot up and shut down. I have no idea why this is so. The first time I shut down the PC, I left the room and then came back and had a second look to see if I had actually initiated the shutdown.
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Ubuntu 8.04 Is Ready to Take On Windows
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Ubuntu's deep software catalog, focus on usability and active community combine with long-term support to put desktop Linux's best face forward.
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Good and Open Source compatible printers
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I reported about printers which work well with open source once in a while. This time, it was myself who needed a replacement for the fax machine, so I was looking for an all-in-one printer / scanner / copier / fax. And I found one which I really like.
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Nemo Review: A New File Manager for Linux
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Keeping with a very obvious Gmail overtone, Nemo provides the end user with the ability to star, label and sort based on other file type criteria. Extremely helpful if you know when the file in question came to be and whether it’s a document or a picture. This is something that Tracker is not going to provide quite as easily.
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Where do we go from here now that Gnome has grown up?
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My recent post about old the beginnings of Gnome and my natural tendency to look at the Roadmap for the next version of Gnome and Ubuntu when an Ubuntu release comes out have led me to a conclusion: Gnome is pretty much finished.
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Screenlets work with Compiz widget layer in Ubuntu Gutsy
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Screenlets are small owner-drawn applications (written in Python) that can be described as “the virtual representation of things lying/standing around on your desk”. Sticknotes, clocks, rulers, … the possibilities are endless.
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Who gets top billing? GNOME or KDE?
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If you support multiple desktops, which one gets top billing? Kind of like Lennon and McCartney (please tell me that most of my readers are old enough to get the reference…), it doesn’t really matter very much — there’s so much awesome in each one that it’s just not possible to detract from the choices with an arbitrary decision about which one should go first.
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Xubuntu Hardy Heron is Ready for Takeoff
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“So far, so good.” That is all I can say when I tested Xubuntu 8.04 RC last night on my Macbook Pro. I didn’t want to wait for tomorrow’s distribution release because I know the download will be slow during that time due to expected heavy traffic. Anyway, the Release Candidate version will almost be the same as the finished product, I think.
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Smooth upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on my Linode
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A few days ago I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on my Linode VM (the machine which hosts this blog). I had upgraded to 7.10 a while back, so it was unlikely to be much of a challenge… But it was great to see another very smooth upgrade, without any manual workarounds required at all.
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Virtual Folders in KDE - Introducing Nepomuk virtual folders
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From the page: "You can tag files, you can annotate them, Strigi indexes your files, I showed how to create new information types and things, but you could not really use it. I suspect you want to find the things again by searching for it. Well, I don't think we should search. We should simply find! OK, enough of the bragging. Introducing Nepomuk virtual folders."
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Identify speakers with sndpeek
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Use sndpeek and custom algorithms to match voices to a pre-recorded library. Create applications to let you know who is speaking in teleconferences, podcasts, and live media events. Build basic assistance programs to help the hearing-impaired identify speakers in a bandwidth-limited context.
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How to Cut MP3 files under Ubuntu
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If you want to cut MP3 files under Ubuntu,follow this instructions first you need to install poc-streamer package.poc is a suite of MP3 tools and MP3 streaming programs. It can stream MP3s over HTTP, RTP multicast (RFC 2250 and RFC 3119) and a special multicast protocol to enable the use of Forward Error Correction to protect the MP3 stream against packet loss. It can also stream OGGs over HTTP.
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You’ve always dreamt of making panoramas of your holidays pictures. You’ve never done it cause you’ve never found the good software into Ubuntu or it was too complicated to set up? Me too. Until recently and the discovery of Hugin.
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Getting data into and out of an OpenOffice.org Base database
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The ability to import and export data is crucial to any database management system, and OpenOffice.org Base is no exception. While you may be surprised to discover that OpenOffice.org lacks a dedicated import/export feature, it does allow you to get data into and out of a database in a variety of ways.
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