Consider: a large population of users who can report virii. Many people with the same "itch" (to be free of virii). A subsegment of both communities with the aptitude and interest in killing these virii. Should be a perfect market for open source, right? Architecture of participation and all that....ClamAV seems to make the argument that it is.
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VectorLinux - The Pefect Installation and Setup
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The VectorLinux Website is promising: “Speed, performance, stability -- these are attributes that set VectorLinux apart in the crowded field of Linux distributions. VectorLinux is a lighterweight, fast, Linux operating system for Intel-AMD x86 compatible systems and is based upon Slackware, one of the original Linux distributions…”
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Command & Conquer For Free
http://www.linuxgames.com –
EA has released the original Command & Conquer for free to celebrate the pioneering real-time strategy game's 12th anniversary. Images for both of the game discs (GDI and NOD) are provided; I don't know how difficult they'll be to install/extract under Linux yet though.
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Envy - ATI/NVIDIA driver installer
http://www.albertomilone.com –
"Envy" is an application for Ubuntu and Debian written in Python and PyGTK which will: detect the model of your graphic card, download the right version of the proprietary driver for your ATI or Nvidia card from ATI or Nvidia's websites, handle the dependencies required to build the module, install/uninstall the driver, set up your xorg.conf for you, and then restart the Xserver for you.
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Villa Libre: Mandriva Linux en la nueva plataforma móvil de Intel (ES)
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La nueva plataforma móvil de Intel trata de diseñar dispositivos móviles cuya funcionalidad y tamaño está a medio camino entre un móvil y un ordenador portátil.
Los de Mandriva han realizado pequeñas modificaciones a su distribución orientada a memorias FLASH para que funcionara a la perfección en dichos dispositivos.
Read more »Mandriva First to Demonstrate KDE/Linux Desktop on the New Intel MID platform
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Mandriva showcased the first prototype of the Mandriva Linux distribution with KDE running on the new Intel Mobile Internet Device (MID) platform at the aKademy 2007 conference.
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Set Up PC-BSD v1.4 beta
http://www.howtoforge.com –
This document describes how to set up PC-BSD v1.4 beta. PC-BSD is released under the BSD license.
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Xubuntu plus Gnome equals … a metapackage
http://kmandla.wordpress.com –
I’m going out on a limb saying it, but here’s my brief prediction — probably worthless, overdramatic and ill-informed, but my prediction anyway: Xubuntu’s push toward Gnome applications is going to marginalize the distro.
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Mozilla To Build Social Networking Into Firefox: Bad News For Flock
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"Mozilla has released details on The Coop, a new product that will incorporate social networking features directly into the Firefox browser. This is not good news for the privately-backed social browser Flock (also built on Mozilla), which is yet to release a 1.0 version of its browser.
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iplist - a list based packet handler
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iplist is a list based packet handler which uses the netfilter netlink-queue library (kernel 2.6.14 or later). It filters by IP-address and is optimized for thousands of IP-address ranges.
Like Peerguardian for Windows and Moblock for Linux, ipList loads blocklists and blocks spies and adware sites from your system.
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This is Vector. This is Vector on Fluxbox.
http://www.insidesocal.com –
Fluxbox seems like an afterthought in most distros. You can add it, sure, but it doesn't look or function that great without some work. On one of my Debian installs, Fluxbox is excellent, on the other not so much. Slackware has a nice Fluxbox setup as well.
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Using PCLinux2007: A good-bad report
http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com –
This is a brief report on my usage-experience with PCLinux2007 (or PCLOS for short). It’s just an op-ed piece, and some of the comments would reflect my ignorance rather than the ability of the operating system. However, considering I am still a linux beginner, a post like this documents the kind of positive experiences and challenges a user can face once he/she is actually using PCLOS.
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How-To: PCLinuxOS 2007 and MythTV
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For those of you who always thought PCLinuxOS and MythTV would go together...you’re quite right, they do fit well together...though there are a few bumps on the road. Hopefully, this how-to will help you along the way.
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Gnash 0.8.1 released
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Rob Savoye wrote:
"The forth alpha release of Gnash has just been made at version
0.8.1. Gnash is a GPL'd Flash movie player and browser plugin for
Using Thunderbird as a context management tool
http://nothickmanuals.info –
While an email client like Thunderbird doesn't offer any advanced tools for managing files, email's sheer convenience and ease of use are rather compelling reasons for sticking with the proven tool. In fact, an email client makes an excellent context management system, which can help you to keep tabs on who said what and when about a particular document.
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