Fedora 7.0 is the latest community-based Linux release from Red Hat. Fedora and Novell's OpenSuse are Ubuntu Linux's two chief "competitors". All three Linux distros are free downloads; all have vibrant online communities where you can go for tips, troubleshooting and advice.
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Linux Gamers Live DVD 0.9.2
Being an avid gamer who loves Linux, I felt that it would be a good idea to go try out the new Linux-Gamers.net live dvd. This is a live dvd built on Arch Linux and designed with one purpose in mind. Gaming. No desktop apps, no office suites, no web browsers. Nope, nothing but gaming.
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A Useful Hack for Storing Text or Editable Pictures You Need to Reuse, in OpenOffice Impress Presentations
My friend Ben Horst wrote to me with a question about how to store editable content in a presentation that you reuse periodically. Like a few buttons formatted a particular way, text boxes, anything that can't easily be drawn and formatted and has to look a certain way.
My answer was, well, kind of a hack, but I think it's useful enough to point out.
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Mini Review of a Tiny PCLOS
TinyMe is a scaled down version of PCLinuxOS 2007. The latest version is delivered as a 177 MB liveCD and features the Lightweight X11 Desktop Enviroment, Synaptic, and the PCLinuxOS Control Center. It comes with a few applications, so it could be a really light version of PCLOS for older computers or a foundation on which to build your own system as you choose.
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Bandit Project's Cross-Platform Card Selector Gives Users Control of their Internet Identities
The Bandit® Project today hit another key milestone in the development of open source identity services with the availability of an open source, cross-platform information card selector that helps users manage “digital identity cards” used in Web transactions.
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Review: Xandros Linux 4.0 Professional
"Xandros is a distribution of Linux descended from Debian and built on the Debian framework. Unlike Debian though, Xandros is built more with a profiteering mindset, a philosophy that has slowly alienated it from the Linux community, more so lately after their announced affiliation with Microsoft."
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Free and Priceless: Windows XP vs Linux Mint
Today we are going to take a look at installing, and running, both Windows XP and Linux Mint on a Dell Inspiron 6400. Why crusty old XP and not the sparkling new Windows Vista? For the unspectacular reason that it's what I have. You see, I purchased the computer about a year ago and Vista had not shook the world yet.
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Linux Development Part 1
"Finding information about how to develop and publish games for Linux is difficult. There aren’t many articles or tutorials written about it, and there is no centralized web site you can go to find all the answers."
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Linux works on Sun server partitions
"A Linux kernel programmer has got Linux running on a logical domain, Sun Microsystems' term for an operating system partition on its newer UltraSparc-based servers."
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Vista security baloney
"If you believe Jeff Jones, Microsoft's security strategy director, then Vista is much more secure than XP, Mac OS X, and Linux."
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Tribe 2 released
"welcome to Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 2, which will in time become Ubuntu 7.10."
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Red Hat Profit Surges 17 Percent in Q1
Red Hat's first quarter profit, reported Wednesday, jumped 17 percent from the year-ago period, bolstered by new offerings and the continuation of high-dollar partnerships. In October, shares of Red Hat tumbled 24 percent on the news that Oracle was to move aggressively onto Red Hat's turf by selling maintenance services for Red Hat products.
Read more »Fedora Board elections -- voting open
Voting is now open for the Fedora Board elections.
As a reminder, we are electing 3 of the 9 seats during this election.
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Highly discounted Linux web tablets pop up
At least two large online retailers are selling Nokia's 770 Internet Tablet for $140. Originally priced at $400, the 770 was Nokia's first Linux-based consumer device -- and arguably the first product in an emergent new generation of pocketable WiFi-connected Web tablets.
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The distro jungle
People who are new to Linux are often confused by the large number of distributions to choose from. The good news is that you can safely ignore most of them. This article helps you choose a distribution for getting started with your Linux exploration—and helps you understand just what it is you've just chosen.
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