Gentoo, formerly known as Enoch Linux is one of the pioneers among the Linux distributions. It is well-known and loved for its speed (the Gentoo species is the fastest swimming penguin), and hated for its unfriendliness with Linux newbies.
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A first run with IBM's free office suite
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Computer giant IBM yesterday released a free office suite for Windows and Linux machines called Lotus Symphony.
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KateOS - Getting Better with Age
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KateOS 3.6 was released a few days ago. Since KateOS has always been one of my favorite distributions and since I haven't looked at it recently, I decided to take it for a test run on my HP Pavillion laptop.
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Xen With Graphical User Interface On A Fedora 7 Desktop
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This document describes how to set up Xen on Fedora 7. Xen enables the paravirtualization of your hardware for its virtual machines if you have a CPU with Vanderpool (Intel) or Pacifica (AMD) technology. The paravirtualization provides high performance to your virtual machines. Fedora's virt-manager provides an easy to use GUI for setting up and managing your virtual machines.
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Got game, with linux?
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A long time ago, back when i was still a common windows user, i was very serious in online gaming. In particularly a game called Star Wars Jedi Academy. Now I have long since switched to linux, which of course will not run the game natively. But just recently i wanted to get back on and play the game, and i had nothing better to do. I decided to try the first and most obvious thing, wine.
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Stealth updates, deletions — BadVista
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"Microsoft's Nate Clinton has used a bogus excuse to explain why Windows Update installs stealth updates without the user's consent..."
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Microsoft controls your computer
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"...any computer that runs Vista is under Microsoft's total control. Microsoft can alter the software in any way it wishes, or make the machine inoperable. It can do this to any user, at any time, for any reason."
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GPRename: GTK2-Perl Batch Renamer
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GPRename is a complete batch renamer for files and directories coded in GTK2 and Perl.
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My First Look at KateOS 3.6 Live
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KateOS 3.6 Live was release just a day ago and after 8 months of development I just thought I would take a quick look at it. Enjoy the few screenshots and flash video of the desktop in action.
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Theme Applications Running as Root in Ubuntu
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Once you start installing new GTK themes in Ubuntu, you will notice that applications that run as root, such as the Synaptic Package Manager, look unthemed and ugly. This is because although the root user is hidden in Ubuntu, it is still technically a separate user with separate appearance settings.
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Buddi: A simple way to track personal finances
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Although the idea of using an application to manage your personal finances makes a lot of sense, not all of us have the time and patience to learn all the intricacies of tools like GnuCash or Money Manager Ex. If that sounds like you, try Buddi, probably the easiest to use personal finance manager out there.
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Ubuntu Forums Firefox Plugin - Finding Answers To Stupid Questions Was Never So Easy
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I remembered awhile back that I had installed a plugin for the Steam forums that gave me a little menu item up at the top inbetween Tools and Help in Firefox that allowed easy navigation of the Steam forums. I thought about it for a bit and thought,
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Mint Linux: The way Linux was meant to be
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I've had a couple of folks tell me to try out Mint Linux. Last night, I downloaded Celena BETA 017. Tonight, I burned the CD and booted it up on europa.
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JackLab Project Announces its First Public Release
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The technical manager of the JackLab project, Oliver Bengs, released the final 1.0 version of the JackLab Audio Distribution (JAD) today after a development period of over eight months. JAD 1.0 is based upon openSUSE 10.2 with the addition of a real-time Kernel for fast audio processing with the professional audio server JACK.
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Fx 2.0.0.7 Released
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"Fx 2.0.0.7 is a Fire Drill (Security) release to address the QuickTime Vulnerability..."
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