What Ubuntu really lacks, is a good download manager. I wanted one and no, Firefox extension 'Downloadthemall' wouldn't work for me. So I decided to look around for a decent download manager.
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gOS 3.1 Gadgets SP1 released
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This latest gOS release contains a lot of package updates, bug fixes & configuration enhancements. gOS makes heavy used of Google’s web-based applications, like Gmail & Google Finance.
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FOSS DEMonstration Against Novell
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Letters and articles about Novell's participation in FOSDEM 2009
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EMC acquires open-source assets from SourceLabs
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EMC Corp. confirmed today that it has acquired assets from SourceLabs Inc., an open-source software management and support vendor, for an undisclosed amount.
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Solaris Distro Review - OpenSolaris 2008.11
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The free software world is in great evolution, and among the new projects and new versions of old projects, there is always something new that appears on the horizon. OpenSolaris is one of them news, even if it is not really a news. The Solaris operating system, from Sun Microsystems is not new, indeed, but the project was on its bases, and i'm honoured to write a review.
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Correcting the Web-wide Misreporting of the Vietnam "Linux" Switch
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Slashdot misreported this. ZDNet's Dana did, too. Every little blog is picking this story up from these two and others. I'm going to correct them all on a couple of points, but I don't want them to take it personally. They just reacted instead of reading carefully. This is not about Linux.
Read more »Bollier's 'Viral Spiral' -- Being Out of Control Is a Good Thing
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"In the beginning, there was Stallman.Richard Stallman, Biblical in appearance with long beard, could be mistaken for a long-ago prophet.Self-righteous, obstreperous and outspoken Stallman and his rebellion against the centralized world of computer software, is the jumping-off point for Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own, by David Bollier, one of the co-founders
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Linux 2.6.28's five best features
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While you were likely to be opening up Christmas presents, Linus Torvalds was giving Linux users around the world a special present: the release of the next major Linux kernel: Linux 2.6.28.
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Top 10 Linux Rss Readers
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An RSS reader (sometimes called a newsreader or news aggregator), allows you to receive and view data feeds from various sources in a single interface. There are many RSS readers available, web-based and desktop clients. What are some of the best RSS readers for Linux?
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Break the reboot cycle. Use Linux.
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You may have noticed that I have been quiet for the last couple of days. The reason is I have been working on a windows computer, trying to fix it. Reformatting and reloading was an option but the pain and time taken to reconfigure the thing was prohibitive. Besides I knew what the problem was and I could fix it.
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Linux.com is still stalled
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Linux.com has changed it's formatting, more or less dramatically since the first of the year. Submissions to their Features and NewsVac pages are no longer being offered. The main page now points to a Linux discussion forum (and do we need another Linux discussion forum?). What's going on?
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Why Picking a Linux Distro is Like Picking a Girlfriend
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Choosing a Linux distro is a lot like choosing a girlfriend. If she appears too needy or too high maintenance, I am probably not going for a second date. Of course, a pretty face doesn’t hurt, but as my previous review showed, there is a lot more to her than her looks.
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When Enterprise meets FOSS
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If 2008 had a buzzword, it was probably community. More and more companies are looking to tap into communities for contributions to open source projects. But following the open-source trend just because everyone is doing it isn't good enough.
Read more »How-To: Compile and Install Code::Blocks from Source in Debian Lenny
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Code::Blocks is a complete, cross-platform integrated development environment for C and C++, built using the wxWidgets toolkit. Code::Blocks is available on Linux, Windows and OS X, so you may find it useful on Linux if you switched and are already used to it or an IDE like Dev-C++, for example.
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Moonlight got easier for Ubuntu users
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Last month I mentioned that version 1 of Moonlight, the open source port of Microsoft’s Silverlight software, reached both beta status and finally it’s official release (download the Firefox plugin here). Of course I still had one problem. Since I moved from Firefox 3 to Epiphany I couldn’t use the plugin for Firefox.
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