Docks became popular when Mac began using them in their operating system. But these days docks are available on all platforms.
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Top Ten Reasons for a Linux Laptop
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Hopefully, these tips will help settle once and for all why Linux is a perfect fit for any laptop.
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Ubuntu 8.04: Upgrade or clean install?
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Which path should you follow? Should you take advantage of Ubuntu's package manager and use it to upgrade your system to the latest 8.04 Hardy Heron release, or should you download a CD or DVD ISO image and do a clean install?
Read more »Wine 1.0-rc1 Released
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This is release 1.0-rc1 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.
This is the first release candidate for Wine 1.0. Please give it a good testing to help us make 1.0 as good as possible. In particular please help us look for apps that used to work, but don't now.
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A plea for community
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Sifting through the news from JavaOne this week, I can't help but wonder when we'll stop developing our personal silos and truly get into community. Sun is a wonderful company, but I'm with Zonker on this one: Do we really need another operating system, application server, RIA platform, etc.
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Oracle crowns Red Hat the Linux king
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For those who had forgotten, Oracle provides Linux support. It's called "Unbreakable Linux."
Read more »New ways to handle third party software installations
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At the moment, for an average user, it’s pretty hard to install third party software. Why?
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Response team boosts open-source security
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IT managers often assume that open source software is more secure than proprietary commercial software. Anyone who uses open source can examine the original code to spot any lurking vulnerabilities, and potentially even fix the vulnerabilities themselves. With proprietary software, you have to trust the vendor to do it all for you.
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KOffice + ODF; ODFDOM is Released
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KDE’s KOffice has just reached Alpha 7 and it revolves around OpenDocument format. KDE deserves some praises for refusing to touch OOXML with its the anti-FOSS poison pill (RAND+OSP), in addition to the impossibility of implementing something that nobody else will ever implement, not even Microsoft.
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Intellectual Exclusion Makes Intellectual Abuse
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Here is just a quick roundup of news which revolves around our ‘favourite’ patents trolls, our ‘favourite’ anti-Free software laws, and Microsoft’s latest intellectual monopoly offenses.
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Rootkits, the who's what's and whys in kitting the box.
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Rootkits, the who's what's and whys in kitting the box. The idea of this guide is to make you aware of rootkits, what they can do, their history, and the varying different type of rootkits. I'm also going to discuss couple of possible countermeasures and steps that you can take to defend your self against rootkits
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Synchronize your databases with SqlSync
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SqlSync lets you compare two databases to see which tuples have been added, removed, and changed. You can also use SqlSync to make one database a clone of another and maintain its contents to be that way. One benefit of using SqlSync to perform synchronization is that you can perform heterogeneous syncs -- for example, from MySQL to PostgreSQL.
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Microsoft Ex-Pats Developing Open Source Software Outside of Redmond
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There are a number of ventures run by ex-Microsofties who are seeing success. Maybe the the question real question is, “How far does the apple fall from the tree?”
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The Year of the Linux Desktop
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This is it. It’s now. Like it or not, you can quiver in your boots and moan about this driver or that hardware or the other usability feature, but I have two, solid irrefutable signs of the apocalypse. And both together are undeniable proof that the apocalypse is now showing on the big screen, all around you, in Technicolor.
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Ext4 - a new filesystem
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The filesystem used in the vast majority of Linux (and to a lesser extent on other Unix) distributions is the ext3 filesystem, which stands for extended filesystem. Slashdot recently pointed to an article on IBM DeveloperWorks discussing the new ext4 filesystem currently in development, and some of its new features. So what is a filesystem really?
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