If you’re brand new to Ubuntu, or Linux, many concepts will be alien to you .....For this reason, I've put together a two-sided printable guide which explains, in very simple and easy-to-understand terms, how to install most software in Ubuntu.
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Myah OS: Not quite ready
Myah OS is a desktop-oriented distribution built from the ground up around a custom package manager. When things go right, it has the potential to be an easy to use, simplistic deskop operating system. As you will see, however, not everything always goes right.
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12 Web Browsers for Linux - Review
Review of 12 web browsers for Linux with screenshots, for both GUI and CLI interfaces. Among the well-known browsers like Firefox, Opera, Epiphany or Konqueror, included are Dillo, Galeon, Kazehakase, lynx, elinks, w3m, links2, links.
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Workshop Sciences & Democracy in The European Social Forum
"...Improvement of the political dialogue and relations between social movements, citizens, scientists and research institutions for a better democratic process in sciences’ decision making..."
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Attacking the Messenger and Rewriting/Forgetting History
Old truths return; Microsoft Jack attacks messengers. Two like-minded crooks, Carl Icahn and Microsoft, continue to bully Yahoo. In the process, they are trying to rewrite an embarrassing history.
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Free Software and Patent Settlements: It’s All Wrong
Ways of dodging the software patent plague (until it's cured) needn't involve selling out. Yesterday it was shown that Red Hat had paid in vain for software patents that would not be valid anyway. At the time, Red Hat was seen as a courageous patent swatter, but not everyone is happy. Here is quite a legitimate new criticism. (strong language warning)
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Projects on the move
In the age of digital cameras, most people are capable of taking reasonable photos. To make an impression with photos, you have to do something really special. Stitching is one option, but this has nothing to do with traditional handicrafts. These days, stitching means piecing individual photos together to create a large-scale panoramic image.
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Chinese educational handhelds get Qt
A Chinese educational device vendor announced it will use Trolltech's Qt for Embedded Linux application framework in its Linux-based educational devices. Noah Education Holdings currently offers over a dozen handheld "digital-learning devices" (DLDs), three of which run embedded Linux.
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Quick: How to Hide Mounted Drives on Gnome’s Desktop
I prefer a clean desktop with no icons cluttering it up, but by default most Gnome based distros adds icons to the desktop for every single removable drive that you attach to your system.
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The strength of Linux is in it's flexibility
In the world of electronic silicon number crunchers one of the primary structural components is the operating system. At the moment I would have to say the strongest operating system is Linux. I say this because out of all the operating systems I know, I believe the most flexible operating system is Linux.
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Big Buck Bunny Movie Review : Open Source Goes Hollywood
Big Buck Bunny codenamed Peach is the second Open Source Animated Movie from the Blender Stable.. Like its elder sibling Elephant's Dream this movie has been created using Free and open Source software Blender .. The Project Peach started in October 2007 and produced an amazing result know as Big Buck bunny which was released April 10, 2008..
Read more »Interview: MandrakeLinux and Ulteo founder Gael Duval
Gaël Duval, the founder of the popular MandrakeLinux (later MandrivaLinux) project, was fired from Mandriva last spring in an effort to cut costs. Almost immediately afterward, Duval began work on a new GNU/Linux distribution, Ulteo. As of this writing, Ulteo has not yet released its first beta edition, but it should be available soon. While we're all waiting, I figured I'd ask Mr.
Read more »Git the basics,
This is a recording of the Git tutorial given by Bart Trojanowski for the Ottawa Group of Ruby Enthusiasts.
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Benchmarking hardware RAID vs. Linux kernel software RAID
Want to get an idea of what speed advantage adding an expensive hardware RAID card to your new server is likely to give you? You can benchmark the performance difference between running a RAID using the Linux kernel software RAID and a hardware RAID card. My own tests of the two alternatives yielded some interesting results.
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Bleezer developer says 1/3 of his time spent evaluating incorrect APIs or fixing open source code
Bleezer is a blogging tool which includes a popular Linux version. But the developer says that the open-source components leave a lot to be desired.
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