The Chakra Development Team is proud to announce the release of Chakra 2011.04 codenamed Aida. Two month passed since Chakra 2011.02. Now it is time for Aida to impress. We added kernel 2.6.38.4 and lots of package updates. KDE got updated to 4.6.2 with our chakra-patches added, such as our hardware detection including the latest drivers.
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Slackware GNU/Linux 13.37 Released
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Slackware 13.37 brings many updates and enhancements, among which you'll find two of the most advanced desktop environments available today: Xfce 4.6.2, a fast and lightweight but visually appealing and easy to use desktop environment, and KDE 4.5.5, a recent stable release of the 4.5.x series of the award-winning KDE desktop environment.
Read more »Installing And Using OpenVZ On CentOS 5.6
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In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a CentOS 5.6 server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project. OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual servers.
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Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Released - See What`s New
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Ubuntu 11.04 doesn't come with GNOME 3 / GNOME Shell (in fact it's not even available in the repositories but only in a PPA) and instead it comes with an interface designed especially for Ubuntu called Unity (based on GNOME 2.x).
Read more »Second alpha of Gluon, a free and opensource game creation app, released
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Now we have reached a point in time where we can create games with Gluon Creator, and do it properly. We have the beginnings of the social features which are the basis of the connection between the makers and players of games. And we have a game engine which by now has most of the features required to create games in today's demanding world.
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Using Styles in Scribus Desktop Publishing App
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If you don't include master pages (which are really styles under another name), then Scribus supports three types of hierarchial styles: lines, character, and paragraph. As in any other self-respecting word processor or layout application, these styles allow you to apply detailed sets of formatting options quickly, without having to change each instance of a formatting option individually.
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RAW Magic In Digikam: Understanding RAW Photo Settings
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Shutterbugs have found big power in understanding and manipulating digital photos in RAW formats. Linux lovers have the perfect tool for harnessing the RAW power in Digikam, via the built-in LibRaw. Want to claim the power for your own photo efforts? Read on and I'll show you how to tame RAW photos on Linux with Digikam.
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Video Editor Kdenlive 0.8 Released
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This new version of free and open source video editor brings several new features, including improved user intergace, proxy clips, audio monitoring, HDMI output, new effects and more.
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Fellowship interview with Michiel de Jong
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Michiel de Jong has worked as a programmer, researcher and sysadmin in Amsterdam, Oxford, London and Madrid, where he ended up as a scalability engineer for Spain’s national social network Tuenti. In Winter 2010 he took a two-month hacker’s holiday in Bali to set up the Unhosted project.
Read more »Top Things to do after installing Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal
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The final release of Ubuntu Natty Narwhal is almost out. It’s scheduled to be out in the 28th of this month. After you actually get done with the installation, there would likely exist a heap of things you still need to take care of. This post will share some interesting insight and ideas about what you can and should do after a successful installation.
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How To Integrate ClamAV Into PureFTPd For Virus Scanning On Ubuntu 10.10
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This tutorial explains how you can integrate ClamAV into PureFTPd for virus scanning on an Ubuntu 10.10 system. In the end, whenever a file gets uploaded through PureFTPd, ClamAV will check the file and delete it if it is malware.
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Generate HTML Photo Galleries with digiKam
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If you end up in a situation when you need to quickly generate an HTML gallery using photos stored in digiKam, you will be pleased to learn that you can easily do this using the Export to HTML Kipi plugin available via the Export » Export to HTML command.
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31 Great Tutorials for Inkscape!
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Inkscape is an open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape is cross-platform and runs on Unix based OS, Windows and Mac (typically under X11). In this post we have attempted to gather some best tutorials around the web, categorizing them into various groups, organized from novice users to advance level. If you have not installed inkscape then you can follow the following tutorial
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A firefox add-on to convert & Download videos!
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There migh be many times when you want to download youtube video, this is rather a straight forward process that can be accomplished by diverse ways. But, how many times you would want to convert the video to your desire file format before dowloading.
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How to Remote Lock your Nokia phone!
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In this post we will illustrate how you can remotely lock your Nokia phone. The process is very simple and many of you might already practice it,
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