Unlike Ubuntu & Fedora, OpenSuse is released every 8 months. This means that they are always usually trailing Ubuntu, Fedora etc with the new Gnome, KDE. I personally prefer Gnome and even though KDE is the default option at install.
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How to record audio from mic using FFmpeg aka audio grabbing
Recently a linuxer pointed out that in spite of the amazing and widespread capabilities of FFmpeg, I have just been focused upon its media conversion feature.
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"And Yet It Moves" Game Released For Linux
For those too impatient to wait for next month for a new native Linux game release when Amnesia: The Dark Descent is set to premiere, there is another game with a native Linux client that was released today: And Yet It Moves.
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Add a Grammar Checker to OpenOffice.org using the After the Deadline Extension
The lack of a grammar checker is a pet peeve of many OpenOffice.org users. But there is a solution for those who are in desperate need of grammar checking capabilities in the productivity suite.
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Linux Gaming Projects That Need a Little TLC (or How You Can Contribute)
My favorite PC game of all time was Interstate '76. It was really unique in its gameplay and has the best soundtrack for a game ever, featuring 70's funk, where I would pop in the cd on my computer just to play the music. I've never done that with any other game, before that or since (the site has archived the soundtrack and you can download the mp3 files from there).
Read more »The State of Ubuntu Studio 2010
The current state of Ubuntu Studio could be described as losing momentum characterized by limited development in contrast to its substantial potential.
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4 More Ways to Clean Up Your Ubuntu Machine
It doesn’t matter if you are using Windows, Linux or Mac, as long as you don’t maintain it, it will grow out of hand and become very messy. This time, we are going to show you 4 more ways to keep your Ubuntu clean.
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Public Service Announcement: Verify your Backups!
There’s only one thing worse than having no backup at all: thinking you have a backup and finding out it doesn’t work when you go to restore. If you've never performed a test restore, you can’t say with any degree of certainty that you'll be able to recover lost data in the event of a disaster, because you've never tried.
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Mozilla plans to silently update Firefox
Taking a page from rival Google's playbook, Mozilla plans to introduce silent, behind-the-scenes security updating to Firefox 4.
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Lightspark VS Flash: Benchmarked
The team behind open-source Flash alternative LightSpark pushed out a new bug-fix release a few days ago. Seeing as we're a few releases in, I felt now was a prime time to see just how well LightSpark performs against its proprietary counterpart -
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Purpose-built: Five specialised Linux distributions
We’ve all heard of Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Fedora and Mandriva. But how about RIP, Damn Vulnerable and Zeroshell Linux? Here are five specialised Linux versions worth bookmarking.
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Build a Linux Media Center PC
Media Center PCs have been around for almost a decade—even longer if you count earlier forays like Gateway's Destination PC lineup from the mid-1990s. It's not just about PCs, either.
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Mark Shuttleworth announces new Ubuntu 10.10 audio feature
Former Canonical CEO, Mark Shuttleworth, recently announced a new sound feature for Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) on his blog…
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Configure Wine Ubuntu For Running Windows Based Games
If you've come to Linux Ubuntu from Windows, you probably left behind a few favorite computer games. You may already know that Wine can help you play them again; in some cases, however, the solution is less than perfect.That's where this tutorial can help.
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Sunbird: Your Calendar, Your Way
Mozilla's Sunbird gives you customization options for the interface as well as a rich set of under-the-hood controls for setting up where, how and when the application gets its information.
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