Sees possibility for a QT-based GNOME - An interview about the future of the Linux desktop and problems with "Hardy Heron"
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GNOME 3.0 officially announced... and explained
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At the recent GNOME User and Developer European Conference (GUADEC), the GNOME release team announced a proposal for developing the next major iteration of the open source desktop environment. The plan offers a long-term strategy for moving GNOME development forward and defining future goals for the desktop.
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How To Configure ISP Mail Server On Centos 5.0 Using Postfix, Dovecot, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, TLS/SSL
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This howto will explain how to go about setting up an email server on Centos 5 using Postfix, Dovecot, RoundCube, Virtual Users/Domain and phpAdmin. I have also done a similar setup on Fedora Core 6. My best advice is to set this up first on a workstation and test it thoroughly before setting up on a server and going live with it!
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Linux based virtualisation – the way to save money and go green
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Virtualisation is a technology that can work wonders: provide a testing environment, enhance your processing power, consolidate your computing resources, decrease running costs, preserve legacy apps and more! Here’s how virtualisation can benefit you and why the Linux route really beats out the competition.
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KDE loses stalwart, Uwe Thiem
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KDE stalwart and African developer Uwe Thiem passed away on Friday afternoon. Uwe was a long-standing developer of KDE and an ardent advocate of free and open source software.
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Untangle Gateway continues to impress in open source gateways
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Rick Vanover describes his positive experience with the open source Untangle Gateway Platform, an Internet-facing device for the home or small office. Untangle also provides DHCP, DNS, and port-forwarding services.
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When ’supported’ doesn’t equal ‘fully functional’
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As your experience in Linux grows, you learn one thing: don’t buy new hardware or peripherals without checking whether it’s supported by your favorite distribution. It saves both money and disappointments.
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Distribution Release: BLAG Linux And GNU 90000
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"It has been a while since I've sent out an announcement, but quite a bit has happened since our last release, 70000. Alpha releases based on Fedora 8 and 9 made regular appearances. Linux-libre, a project to make a branch of the Linux kernel with non-free software removed, has flourished. This is the first "major" release of BLAG to include this kernel by default...
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KDE: Right Click, Extract Here
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I've been hunting for a post on how to have KDE "extract here" like Foresight Gnome edition does (it's really handy to one click extract archives)...Then I decided to search KDE-Apps.org and viola! I found it. A handy little tool that allows you to right click on any archive and "extract here" with Ark. Here's how to install it.
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Desktop Distros
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As a long time user of Linux, and reader of Linux Magazines, Websites and Blogs, many see the current Linux situation as being a dawn of a new horizon. Essentially the release of the EEE PC, the timely release of Vista and Ubuntu have all kick started the “Linux Revolution” for the Linux desktop.
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An open letter to Adobe
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Thank you so much for releasing Flash Player 10 beta 2 for Linux. Thanks even more for (finally) building in support for video4linux2 Webcam technology. You have no idea how much we appreciate that. The only problem is that many (if not most) of us can't use it. You see, it crashes our browsers within seconds.
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ISO Document: South Africa's Appeal, as text
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Here's South Africa's appeal against OOXML as text, our final section of our text versions of the entire memo [PDF] sent by the heads of ISO/IEC to the Technical Management Board suggesting that the four appeals against OOXML, attached as exhibits, be denied. The TMB decides what to do next. I know. Such suspense...
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GTK+ State of the Union, Plans for 3.0 (PDF)
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At last week's Guadec meeting, Kristian Rietveld delivered the GTK+ "state of the union" report. GTK+ is the multi-platform toolkit behind a number of popular applications and, perhaps most well known, the Gnome Desktop environment for Linux.
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9 File Managers for Linux
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9 Linux file managers: Konqueror, Nautilus, Krusader, Dolphin, Xfe, PCManFM, Thunar, ROX-Filer, Midnight Commander.
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Close, But Not Quite: A Linux HTPC
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Today I saw the news that Cirgon is shipping a Fedora-based HTPC. I was glad to see the news, but, unfortunately, I was not impressed by the implementation.
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