WiFi Radar is a Python/PyGTK2 utility for managing WiFi profiles.It enables you to scan for available networks and create profiles for your preferred networks. At boot time, running WiFi Radar will automatically scan for an available preferred network and connect to it. You can drag and drop your preferred networks to arrange the profile priority.
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Elisa: Ubuntu Media Centre
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The Ubuntu Media Centre Team have decided to use Elisa as their core infrastructure to push the free software media centre effort forward.
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Now Lenovo Loads Linux, Too
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When IBM sold its personal computer division to Chinese PC maker Lenovo, one of the flagship products that went along on that sale was its invaluable ThinkPad notebook line, home of some of the best engineering I've seen in notebook PCs in the entire time they've been on the market. Now Lenovo is preparing to take the ThinkPad a step ahead and ship them with SUSE Linux preinstalled.
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How low can you go and still run Linux?
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I remember when getting a decent PC would set you back at least a grand. Then it was $500. Now, it's $150!? That's the story that small vendor LinFX wants you to buy along with its PC with pre-installed Linux.
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Ubuntu releases ten lessons for the desktop
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In the latest Ubuntu weekly newsletter the Ubuntu folks announced the release of the Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Course. The modular course should take two days to complete all 10 of the lessons offered, but it is possible to cover topics and lessons independently of each other, learning whatever is of interest.
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Spicebird Beta 0.4 Released!
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"We are happy to announce the release of the beta version of Spicebird - Synovel's free and open source collaboration suite. It simplifies communication for users by providing integrated access to the various tools of collaboration, like email, calendaring and instant messaging, in a single application. It provides easy access to various web services while retaining all the advantages of a desktop application..."
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KDE 4 Brings Improvements Galore to the Linux Desktop
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The next generation of KDE, the popular Linux desktop environment, has arrived. KDE 4.0 features a completely re-written core with new multimedia libraries, better hardware abstraction and desktop eye candy that puts Windows Vista to shame.
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KDE 4.0.0: Sweet Follows Sour
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KDE 4.0.0 has been released on January 11th, after a number of delays; the months preceding the release, the KDE developers tried very hard to downplay expectations. KDE 4.0.0 was just the first release in the KDE 4 series, and such, should not be seen as the best possible representation of the KDE 4.0.0 vision. So, when I installed KDE 4.0.0 on my Ubuntu Gutsy installation last Friday, I knew what to expect: KDE 4 Developer Release 1 (yes, I am a BeOS guy - how did you know?). Read on for a few quick first impressions.
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Ubuntu Mockup Hardy Heron
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A Hardy Heron mockup... looks pretty cool... looking forward to it!!
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Automating Firefox with iMacros
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Do you have some mundane task that you have to do regularly through a Web browser? Are you a developer who wants to automatically test the interface of your latest Web application? Maybe you want to log into all of the sites you visit on a daily basis with one click. If you fall into any of these categories, you should check out the iMacros Firefox extension.
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As if I knew it
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People around the world are cheering up and joy-dancing about the release of KDE4. The Indian EFYtimes for instance said something like:
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Why you should run an open wireless network
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"Schneier sused the word «hacker» to refer to security-breakers, but that's a misunderstanding."
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GNU IceCat 2.0.0.11-g1 released
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We are pleased to announce the first official release of GNU IceCat, the GNU version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser. You can get IceCat from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/ and all GNU mirrors (see http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html)..."
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We can't seem to get the $100 laptop to cost less than $250 ... but the $75 laptop is on its way
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The One Laptop Per Child project hasn't hit its target price of $100, but already one of its creators is talking about a $75 device.
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My Favorite Linux Tool
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While I rarely get excited over free applications, the KDE news-feed reader Akregator is proving to be an exception to the rule. This simple tool has made my life so much better that it's difficult to talk about it without sounding like a late-night infomercial for OxiClean.
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