One of the greatest mysteries to me is why most file managers don’t have tabs - it makes performing tasks so much simpler.
I’ve found a lightweight file manager for Ubuntu called PCMan that gives you most of the functionality from Nautilus, but also has tabs.
Tabbed File Browser in Ubuntu
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Preliminary Review: Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon Alpha 2
My heart sank a little bit as I sat through 2-3 minutes of what can only be described as 'error messages' while this early release of Gutsy Gibbon booted on my virtual machine - although it came through in the end. Here we have the Alpha 2 release of Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon for me to cast a preliminary eye over 3 months prior to release.
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openSUSE LiveCD Installer
I wrote an installer for KIWI-generated LiveCDs...It’s still in early development and has lots of hacks to make things work, but it does manage to install a working system onto your machine. The installation itself is really pretty simple.
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Audacity's new beta? Sounds good.
Audacity's follow-up to its cult-classic audio editor, Audacity 1.3, warrants the attention of amateur and "prosumer" music editors. Audacity 1.3 adds minor (though useful) editing effects, and greases the wheels with some time-saving functionality.
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Beryl: Eye Candy (and More) for Linux
Over the past few years, 3-D rendering in window managers has become a new trend in the desktop environment. OS X was the first to make fancy visual effects prominent in the way users interact with the windows in their desktop. Windows Vista has also jumped on the bandwagon with its Aero interface, though it has some performance issues to work out.
Read more »Ubuntu Linux's Achilles' Heel: It's Tough To Install On Laptops
The wildly popular Linux distro isn't all it's cracked up to be, especially if you try to install it on a laptop, our reviewer Alex Wolfe finds. Come along on his Ubuntu safari, as he hacks his way through bug-fraught installation attempts.
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VMGL: Full OpenGL 3D Hardware Acceleration for Virtual Machines
Introducing VMGL, which provides OpenGL Hardware 3D Acceleration for Virtual Machines. It is a program that you install in both the host and guest and allows for virtualizing the OpenGL functions.
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Ubuntu and Pivot screens - using Nvidia’s default and proprietary drivers
If you’ve got a pivoting monitor and happen to be using Ubuntu with an Nvidia video card there are a couple of ways you can enable pivoting.
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KDE 4 Alpha screen shot review
As KDE 4 alpha 2 was released I tested the live CD. For the interested reader I took some screenshots that can be of interest.
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Dream Linux - truely a linux dream
So today I downloaded the latest edition of DreamLinux http://www.dreamlinux.com.br/. The last time I played with DreamLinux was around 8 months back and was really disappointed as it failed even to boot on my machine.
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Tux Paint gets a face lift
Five years after the debut of its popular open-source drawing program for children, New Breed Software announced the release of Tux Paint 0.9.17.
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Ultralight MEPIS spinoff goes gold
MEPIS on July 9 announced the "Spartacus" release of antiX, a community-built, ultralight derivative of the MEPIS Linux distribution. AntiX (pronounced "Antics") is the personal project of MEPIS community member "anticapitalista," who engineered it as a free version of MEPIS aimed at old 32-bit PC hardware.
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Pardus Linux 2007.2 -- a different GNU/Linux distribution
Pardus is a relatively unknown release funded and developed by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey and I was rather impressed with it last time, so let's give it another go and see what improvements have been made. NOTE: I appreciate this is a Release Candidate so it's not a final release, but I'm going to give it a preliminary review anyway.
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Howto: Compiz Fusion on Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)
Compiz Fusion is a very exciting new advancement in Desktop Effects. Be that as it may, Compiz Fuzion is NOT for Beginners. It is in development now, and is not stable.
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Help testing online banking and financial sites
"We would like to gather a group of users who would be interesting in confirming that their online banks and financial institutions work with Firefox"
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