Arch Linux is one of the few distributions to be optimized for an i686 processor- in other words, it's really fast without having to compile anything.
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WHAT’S the best-selling notebook computer on Amazon.com? If you guessed the new MacBook Air, guess again.
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What has happened to plonecollectorng ?
Plonecollectorng used to be at one time one the defacto bug collector on plone. Lately however it seems to have vanished from the face of the plone planet
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What does your video card do when you’re not playing games?
A 1min. 52sec. video of my current desktop running Gentoo Linux...
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Slackware is king!
[insert tongue into cheek] At the recent KDE 4.0 Release Event in Mountain View, California, members of the open source community at large were invited to attend to partake in the celebrations surrounding KDE 4.0.0's release. There were many attendees from around the world, but the real surprise came when we counted those that were representing the distros.
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HP debuts Linux-based thin client
Hewlett-Packard unveiled its first new thin clients since acquiring Neoware last fall. Among the new products is a Debian- based "t5735" model featuring a CPU and GPU (graphics processor unit) from AMD, which acquired GPU specialist ATI recently.
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Mega Games Bumper Post
XreaL, ETCE, Extreme Tux Racer, and Paintown, some awesome and not-well-known open source game projects, plus others. A typical Free Software games news day, why aren't you reading!?
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Extinguish communication blues with OpenFire
Many companies consider instant messaging to be a distraction, but IM can be an effective communication tool if used properly. OpenFire is an open source enterprise IM server that has lots of features to streamline communication within an enterprise.
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Fast Address book for your Desktop
gfa is a small and fast address book written in C and GTK+2. It uses sqlite as backend for the addresses.
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OpenOffice 3 has PDF import, native Aqua UI, and Tara Reid
There’s been quite a bit of buzz recently after it was announced that OpenOffice 3 was due in September. It seems, however, most people still aren’t aware of what’s in store.
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Ubuntu's Buggy Support for non-ext3fs Partitions
For the past several months, our support forums have been plagued on and off with a number of weird and inexplicable failed attempts at installing Ubuntu by many users. We've finally pinned down the cause of the problem, and it isn't pretty. Ubuntu (ever since version 5.04 Hoary Hedgehog) will not install properly on a filesystem other than ext2fs or ext3fs.
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Want to learn to draw for free? Try free software.
What I’ve noticed time and again in the Wesnoth forums is that there are many people there that are truly interested in helping you create better art. This is because by helping people become better artists, everyone wins. The artist becomes better at what she does while the community benefits from having new and better artwork created for the game.
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Will Nokia buying Trolltech accelerate mobile Linux?
The easy, obvious answer is yes. Nokia’s agreement to buy Trolltech for $155 million has to be a big win for mobile Linux.
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You Used Perl to Write WHAT?!
We all know that when faced with a job to do, we usually tend to reach for the most familiar tool in our belt. And while perl is certainly a versatile tool, it isn't the right tool for every job.
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Is Linux growth momentum slowing?
Fluctuations in shipment and revenue in Linux based servers in the last few years have caused some commentators to speculate that the young operating system has reached some kind of comparative brick wall in the market.
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