There’s a line between closing an application and leaving it open. But aren’t there times when you wish you could force an app not made for the notification area into that “quick recall” space? Well now you can with a handy little tool called AllTray.
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BlueDevil, the new KDE bluetooth stack is here
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We’re proud to announce the first release of BlueDevil, the new bluetooth stack for KDE SC.
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Fedora 13 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend
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This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Fedora 13 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.
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GNOME 3.0 delayed to March 2011
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der Standard: "Developers want to take more time to "polish" their next major release - GNOME 2.32 in September"
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Get a Dynamic Interplanetary Background with Xplanet
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This tutorial shows you how to setup an interplanetary background in Linux, including live-updates for current cloud coverage and daylight! Set an image of Earth, Mars, the Moon, or the entire solar system as your background, and have it update every hour with a cron job. Very cool!
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Preview of KDE Software Compilation 4.5
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Just as KDE 3.5 was intended to be a stabilizing, long-term release, the primary goal of KDE SC 4.5 is to fix outstanding bugs and increase stability. Users will not be blown away by the new features, but there are a few worth noting. Last week I installed the release candidate for KDE SC 4.5 from the Kubuntu repositories and took it for a spin.
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Wine vs Native Mac 3D Performance Benchmarks
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In the past Ive done Wine on Linux versus native Windows 7 benchmarks for 3D applications. Source engine games are some of my favorite benchmarking applications. Since Valve ported Steam to OSX earlier this year and I recently acquired an OSX PC I figured this would be an opportune time to see how Wine performance measures up to a native client.
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Smuxi -User-friendly and cross-platform IRC client for sophisticated users for GNOME/GTK+
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Smuxi is an irssi-inspired, flexible, user-friendly and cross-platform IRC client for sophisticated users, targeting the GNOME desktop.
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Mozilla releases second Firefox 4 beta
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Following a short delay, Mozilla has issued the second beta for version 4.0 of its Firefox web browser, adding support for the new 'tabs on top' layout to Mac OS X systems and several new features that affect web developers
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Quick Reference — Converting Images with ImageMagick
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While you might associate working with images with big graphical programs like GIMP or Photoshop, ImageMagick is an entirely different animal. It is a suite of command-line programs for converting and manipulating images.
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Emulating an Amiga in Linux
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The Amiga was one of the most powerful PC's of it's time, easily trumping the emerging IBM PC's in the 80's. You can relive this classic PC on your Linux desktop thanks to a number of emulators that are available.
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Build a file server with Samba
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Samba is a Linux/UNIX software package that allows you to share files and directories with computers running other operating systems over the network. It also allows your Linux desktop or laptop to sign into a Windows network and be able to share files inside a workgroup
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Second Beta Release of Firefox 4 Arrives
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Download Firefox 4 Beta 2 from Mozilla and test it out. Windows, Mac OS X and Linux builds are available in multiple languages. We were originally expecting it to arrive last Friday, but the release was delayed a few days for quality assurance testing.
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Reviewed: KOffice 2.2
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Over the last 12 years KOffice has grown in scope and ambition pushing out both good and bad iterations and occasionally suffering from hyperbolic claims that it had no chance in hell of satisfying.
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Meet Kate, the KDE Text Editor
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We conclude our whimsical jaunt down text editor lane with a look at the KDE take on that always-necessary tool - the text editor. The KDE version is called Kate. Kate takes a different approach to the simplicity most of these tools take.
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