I find PCLinuxOS to be the big small distro. While it has a modest development team, the final product has always felt quite solid and polished, beyond the normal expectations of limited resources.
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My Wallpaper changer search
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With the Advent of Ubuntu 10.1 I began tweaking the Os to my liking, changing the desktop, adding programs, and that sort of stuff. I was doing good until I find that wallpaper-tray is no longer supported by Ubuntu.
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KDE 4.4.3 Is Upon Us
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KDE today released the 3rd monthly update to the 4.4 series, bringing a slew of bugfixes and translation updates to our users. Konsole has seen some love, so has Okular.
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Linux Brands: Desired and Distracting at the Same Time
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Branding first appeared on the splash screens of Linux distributions: cleverly designed logos that briefly showed the world what kind of Linux you were using, then rolled away to reveal the stock GNOME, KDE, or other window environment/manager underneath.
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Is the Android truly open source?
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Is the Android truly open source? Yes. And no. And sort of. When it comes to the cutthroat world of mobile telephony, it's not quite that simple.
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Chrome 5: Faster and Better
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The first thing you'll notice with Google's new beta of its Chrome Web browser is that it's faster, much faster, than the last version. You don't need any fancy tests to see that. All you have to do is use it and you'll see that it blows other browsers away.[I just upgraded Chrome on all my computers and I actually can see a speed difference, I'm impressed. - Scott]
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HTC-Microsoft Was Not an Agreement, It Was Apparently an Extortion
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More evidence that HTC merely settled (probably after threats) rather than be wooed for a patent deal as Microsoft would like to paint it
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Emacs 23.2 released
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"GNU Emacs 23.2 has been released, and is now available at [...] The 23.2 manuals are not yet on the website; I will do this sometime in
the next few days..."
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Wine 1.2 Release plans
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Wine 1.2 release plans were sent to the wine-devel mailing list from Alexandre Julliard the Wine project leader. Here is the release plans and Alexandres email to wine-devel.
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Need desktop access over the Web? Try some Guacamole
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A new open source project dubbed Guacamole allows users to access a desktop remotely through a Web browser, potentially streamlining the requirements for client support and administration.
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Beef up Firefox Privacy Features
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Whether you want it or not, your Web activities are tracked and analyzed in many different ways. There are a few handy Firefox extensions that can beef up your favorite browser's privacy features.
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Puppy Linux founder releases Quirky 1.0
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Puppy Linux founder Barry Kauler has announced the release of version 1.0 of Quirky, a Linux distribution aimed at developers for trying out "some quirky ideas"
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Easy to Use Lucid Themed Conky
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Conky is a is a light-weight system monitor that can be customized extensively (Windows converts think ‘rainmeter’.) and the following Conky theme by Veoduendes certainly proves that.
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Rhodes 2.0 to be MIT licensed
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RhoMobile has announced that Rhodes 2.0, the latest version of its platform for building native applications for mobile devices, will be available under an MIT licence
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Mousepad: A variation on the Leafpad theme
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If you’ve been following my series on Linux text editors you have read about a number of different variations on this theme. There is another editor, very similar to Leafpad, that was developed to be very Xfce friendly. That editor – Mousepad.
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