IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals. This is a howto guide for people wanting to run IrfanView 4.23 on Linux with Wine...
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Embracing Change: The Linux Paradigm
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It's time to embrace change in the IT world. Linux, for many, is ushering in a new age of reason. Its cost, stability, and open licensing make it a clear choice for those wanting to save money or shore up their service offerings.
Read more »The case for supporting and using Mono
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Novell's open-source .Net clone is alive and well, and it's turning up in surprising, useful places.
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Learn to Develop Responsive Multi-Threaded Applications in C# with New Book
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A new book from Packt on Threaded Programming that acts as a guide to building scalable, high performance applications using parallel programming with C# has been published. Written by Gastón C. Hillar, C# 2008 and 2005 Threaded Programming: Beginner's Guide will help users develop applications that run several tasks, and manage parallelized processes and threads.
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Mirror Your Web Site With rsync On Fedora 10
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This tutorial shows how you can mirror your web site from your main web server to a backup server (both running Fedora 10) that can take over if the main server fails. We use the tool rsync for this, and we make it run through a cron job that checks every x minutes if there is something to update on the mirror. Thus your backup server should usually be up to date if it has to take over.
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Why Does Everyone Heart Boxee?
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The buzz has been building for Boxee lately. Mainstream news outlets like The New York Times, BusinessWeek and NPR are getting hip to the little open-source media center that could quite possibly change the way you experience TV.
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Digiband - Drumming & Guitar simulator in openSUSE
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DigiBand is a full home version Drumming/Guitar simulator. It isn’t just intended to be a simulator, but a uniquely refreshing new experience. It is much different than simulators already out there.
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Microsoft looking for director of open source desktop strategy
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What a goldmine my inbox was this morning. I also received the news that Microsoft’s Windows Competitive Strategy team is searching, via Linkedin, for “a strong team member to lead Microsoft’s global desktop competitive strategy as it relates to open source competitors.”
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Linux in schools (Gaza style)
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From an Open Source perspective January has been a very busy, if slightly surreal, start to 2009 and from a blogging perspective it has been not dissimilar to Alice in Wonderland. By this I mean that like Alice, if you follow a rabbit pel mel into a hole you cannot be sure what will emerge.
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Tiny Silent Linux PC Gets Updated
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In 2007 we ran a story on the tiny linux PC The Linutop. Now the diminutive system has hit version 2.4 and with it an official launch in the UK. The pint-sized, open source Linux PC is designed to run silently and is highly energy efficient at just 8 watts.
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Top 5 Linux Games for 2009
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As we go about “realizing” our New Year’s resolutions were maybe just a bit too stringent, I’m going review the top five games in Linux. Once the great downfall of the platform, gaming can now only be considered a strength, in the hopes you take up this guilty pleasure and wait for 2010 before you give up on gaming.
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Damn Small indeed.
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Over the last several weeks I have been cleaning out my computer room. Stacks and stacks of paperwork have gone into the shredder. Piles of papers and receipts from 15 years ago have all been thrown away. I have been trying to simplify my life. I have been trying to cut through the clutter. While digging through paperwork I found a pen that someone had given to me.
Read more »Xfce creator talks Linux, Moblin, netbooks and open-source
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SlashGear caught up with Xfce creator Olivier Fourdan, whose desktop environment has not only been selected by Intel for Moblin but can be found on many existing Linux netbooks, and talked Intel, Moblin, the future for netbooks and what challenges he sees for open-source newcomer Android.
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Could Psystar Defeating Apple Have Broader Consequences?
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Several months ago, a small company called Psystar began selling computers pre-installed with OS X, which violates Apple's license agreement. After some time, Apple sued Psystar and Psystar counter-sued Apple. Psystar’s counter-suit was thrown out, but, recently, they have been granted the chance to revise their arguments...
Read more »When Features Attack: Bash Version 4.0.0(1)-rc1
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Bash's possible network security risk no longer comes standard
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