At a mere 50MB, Damn Small Linux (DSL) seems like it would be more at home in the realm of rescue disks instead of Desktop OSs.
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OpenMoko 2007.2 testing
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Today is second day of my OpenMoko 2007.2 testing. I do it as part of my work for OpenedHand and this gives me possibility to discuss bugs with applications authors before reporting to get some details
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How to disable tap-clicking with your touchpad in Linux
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Lots of people have a love/hate relationship with their touch pad on their laptops. It’s great for speeding around your screen and doing lots of cool things with nary a mouse in site. It’s horrible when you accidentally double-click that Quake 3 icon while your boss is strolling into the room.
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Love and usability drive Firefox success
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Founder of Mozilla explains how a sense of purpose and an eye for easy use has made the Firefox browser such a success.
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Watching Live-TV On Your Ubuntu Desktop With Zattoo
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Zattoo delivers free Live-TV (P2P IPTV) to Linux, Windows, and Mac desktops. Depending on the country you live in you can select between multiple real TV stations to watch (if Zattoo is available in your country). This article shows how you can install the Zattoo player on an Ubuntu desktop.
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How to gain more control over your synaptics touch pad in Ubuntu
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You can do a bunch of stuff with your laptop’s touch pad, all by installing a quick program and modifying your xorg.conf file.
Things like horizontal or circular scrolling, super sensitivity and converting your synaptics touch pad into a fully functional battle station.
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Firefox Gets BitTorrent
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BitTorrent is one of the most popular mechanisms for peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing. For the most part BitTorrent client applications have been standalone tools, but now, thanks to open source startup AllPeers, Firefox users can take advantage of BitTorrent inside of their browsers.
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Desktop Linux - A Passionate Analysis - Part II [Usability]
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As you may recall, in the previous part (Part I) of this 13 part analytical series about GNU/Linux, I gave a little introduction about GNU/Linux in the Past and a general quick view of the transformation that GNU/Linux has made in Desktop area.
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Five Easter Eggs for Linux
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I have compiled a list of five easter eggs that I came accross over time. Ofcourse none of them are original and most of them has been around for as long as you can remember but I though it would be fun to compile a list of all the Linux Easter eggs with screen shots.
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Can VMware end Linux hardware compatibility problems?
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A well written and insightful article on how Vmware can help resolve Linux hardware compatibility issues.
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Emacs Pocket Guide
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"I wrote this a long long time ago when I was learning emacs, then pasted it on linuxmachos.org, but that site is down atm.
So here’s for future reference"
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Technorati tries to organize the blogosphere
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"Technorati has announced a new feature called Topics. Topics is basically a "river of news" from selected blogs in Technorati's six major categories: Entertainment, Technology, Politics, Sports, Business and Life. The stories from these blogs scroll down the page as they are written.
Read more »Windows Vista Aero vs Linux Ubuntu Beryl (video)
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"One of these operating systems is free. The less impressive one lines Bill Gates' pockets with gold." Great video to show your eye-candy-loving-still-using-windows mates
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A very quick look at elive, with hopes of more to come
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I’m glad I took a look though: This is a very impressive desktop. From the live environment, this has to be the most impressive setup I’ve seen thus far, even if it does step outside the XFCE boundaries I had drawn earlier this week.
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Mozilla Shows Mock-up of Firefox 3.0's Places
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"Places Organizer is one of the most-awaited new features in the upcoming Firefox 3.0."
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