We have seen already how to install latest version of empathy IM in Ubuntu from PPA, now lets do some customizations with its look and feel.
Read more »Prettier Fonts Coming Your Way
There was a time when Linux was notorious for having what was called "fugly" fonts. Things improved a bit over the years, but thanks to expiring patents things are about to get even better.
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The 75 "Funnest" Open Source Downloads
It's summer. And frankly, that means no one's all that excited about working. Oh goodness no. In honor of the season of laziness, we've put together a list of some of the most fun open source downloads you can find.
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6 most talked about Linux games
In your quest to find a good, native and free game for Linux you might have seen long lists of games mentioned on various sites and forums. I’ve compiled a small list of some of the most talked about games for Linux on the internet.
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Novell Launches Linux App Store
Novell sometime today is expected to launch an app store of sorts called SUSE Gallery. With SUSE Gallery, partners and end users can browse and download SUSE Linux software appliances that fulfill specific business needs.
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Forking KDE 3: Trinity KDE's Timothy Pearson
To most users, KDE 3 is obsolete, replaced two years ago by the KDE 4 series. Yet, many continue to lament the loss of KDE 3. Trinity KDE had started in order "to keep the KDE 3.5 computing style alive. Recently, I talked via email with Timothy Pearson about the project, its motivations, purposes, and plans.
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Firefox 'CPU resources' issue better but not gone
The popular Web browser has had a longstanding CPU (Central Processing Unit) utilization issue that--in some cases--overtaxed the CPU, caused noticeable heat issues in small laptops.
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Clonezilla Live updates underlying OS
The latest Clonezilla Live release features upgrades to the open source clone system's underlying GNU/Linux operating system, including changing to the 2.6.32-17 Linux kernel and changing the unstable branch of Debian upon which it's based
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Nokia's treatment of MeeGo smartphone UI revealed?
The one minute, twenty-nine seconds of footage walks us through five parts -- starting up, the "powerful multitasking UI," getting connected, the Ovi Store experience, and the music player -- and as you might imagine, it's the Ovi Store portion that has us feeling like this is a thoroughly Nokia-customized experience.
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Ailurus 10.07.6 is released and installation instructions included
Ailurus is a simple application installer, and GNOME tweaker. Ailurus helps to reduce the difficulty people encounter when they are using Linux. Ailurus also promotes other elegant open-source software which has not entered official repository. With 10 developers (engineers and students), Ailurus is being rapidly developed.
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Kongoni GNU/Linux 1.12.3 RC2 (Cicero) is out in the wild
A major modification done to Kongoni, is moving from the classic kernel, found at kernel.org to the FSF kernel, which has removed all of the non-free firmware. Also removed from git repository any trace of non-free software and firmware. Kongoni now uses GRUB2 as the default boot loader and also has a very good OS detection setup. KDE updated to 4.4.5, GNU IceCat 3.6.8.
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Novell Launching App Store for SUSE Linux Appliances
Novell is preparing to launch an app store called SUSE Gallery. It's designed to help partners and customers find SUSE Linux software appliances that fulfill specific business application needs. Plus, SUSE Gallery effort shows signs that Novell and VMware will continue their joint attack on Red Hat. Here's the scoop.
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Google fixes critical vulnerabilities in Chrome 5
Google has released version 5.0.375.125 of Chrome, a security update that addresses three "high" risk vulnerabilities in its WebKit-based browser
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Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 11.3 (LAMP)
LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an OpenSUSE 11.3 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.
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Cover-thumbnailer - Displays music album covers in nautilus
Cover Thumbnailer is a small Python script which displays music album covers in nautilus, preview of pictures which are in a folder and more.
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