Since version 2 came out in 2005, Google Desktop for Windows has included a sidebar that users can fill with screen gadgets, but the Linux version (version 1, from June 2007) provided only indexing and search functions, with no eye candy whatsoever. This has finally changed. Google recently released Google Gadgets for Linux (GGL), which closes the gap between the operating systems.
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Upgrade to the Latest Compiz Fusion Release
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Since the release of Ubuntu 8.04, Compiz Fusion has been updated to version 0.7.6. Been eying the new cylinder and sphere deformations effects or other new plugins? It's not hard to upgrade Ubuntu 8.04's version of Compiz to get the latest and greatest desktop effects.
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Emacs is not just for computer geeks; also, these are the things that keep me going
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"Reposted with permission because (a) it shows that people who aren’t computer geeks can also love Emacs, and (b) it gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling and encouraged me to keep writing, so I want to keep it around just in case I get in a rut again..."
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OLS: Kernel documentation, and submitting kernel patches
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The second of four days at the 10th annual Ottawa Linux Symposium got off to an unusual start as a small bird "assisted" Rob Landley in giving the first talk I attended, called "Where Linux kernel documentation hides." The tweeting bird was polite, only flying over the audience a couple of times and mostly paying attention.
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Linux Secret Lovers
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Some Windows users secretly love Linux. They want to use Linux but are too chicken to install it on their hard drive. So, they use a program like Windows Blinds to radically alter the graphical user interface of their Windows desktop and make it look like that of Linux. To prove it, here are some screenshots of Linux secret lovers' desktop.
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Microsoft supports Apache Foundation
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"It seems Microsoft has contributed some money to the Apache Foundation. Unbelievable? [...] And, finally? Of course, they transform into a Free Software company. Which they will have to do, in any case. And with the money and user base they have, they can easily drive the others, such as Red Hat and SuSE out of business or at least become the dominant FS company. Not likely? Who can say?
Read more »Ubuntu issues big PHP update
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The Ubuntu development team yesterday released a series of security fixes for PHP running on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 7.04, 7.10 and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. The updates fix a number of security risks in PHP, including a problem with PHP not properly checking the length of the string parameter to the fnmatch function.
Read more »Intel releases Moblin into the wild
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Big tech companies don't always mean what they say when they make promises about open source.
Read more »Open source leadership model
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The basic idea behind open source, a fledging model employed in the software industry, is very simple : When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves.
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2016: “You’re watching the Linux Channel.”
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When Is Open Source Not That Open Source?
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Setting the legal nuances of the chosen open source license aside, wouldn't two products under any open source license have the same claim to the open source moniker?
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10 ways to make Linux boot faster
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On those infrequent occasions when you need to reboot Linux, you may find that the process takes longer than you’d like. Jack Wallen shares a number of tricks you can use to reduce boot times.
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Lighten up your desktop.
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For those of you who have older machinery or just wish to extract every ounce of speed from your machine there is a new offering that has just hit the Debian Lenny repositories. It is called LXDE. You can find more information about it from their web site here.
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"Handheld recording studio" mixes with Linux
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Trinity Audio Group is taking orders for a handheld multi-track recording device that runs Linux. The Indamixx integrates the 64Studio Linux music distribution with an off-the-shelf Samsung handheld, so audio producers can record, edit, equalize, audition, and mix audio at up to 32-bit/96Khz rates on-the-go, the company says.
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The Mess That is Linux Volume Management
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The GNU/Linux operating system is blessed to have sound partition management tools like GParted which are very easy to use. However, when it comes to the management of 'virtual partitions' known as volumes, things are quite different. There is Linx Volume Management, or LVM for short, however it can only really be used from the command line.
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