The Ubuntu Manual Team have decided on their goals for the Maverick Meerkat 10.10 release at the end of this year.
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Using Gnome Do – Quickly and Easy Launch Applications
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Gnome Do is an add on that will allow you to quickly launch applications, run terminal commands and do searches both within your desktop as well as on the internet.
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The Fedora name game, no. 14.
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We now have a wiki page open for suggestions for the Fedora 14 name.
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How to Create a separate /home partition in Ubuntu
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This tutorial will explain How to Create a separate /home partition in Ubuntu.
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Custom Clonezilla Script
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At work we image laptops with clonezilla. An average of 10 a day. A colleague and I have created a custom script to speed up the imaging. It is a little script, but it speeds up the restoring because you don't have to make choices anymore. It is fully customizable, and easy to understand.
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IBM and the labors of TurboHercules
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Once upon a time, IBM was seen as the dark force in the computing industry - Darth Vader in a Charlie Chaplin mask. More recently, though, the company has come across as a strong friend of Linux and free software. It contributes a lot of code and has made a point of defending against SCO in ways which defended Linux as a whole.
Read more »Howto Display Size of Files Under Files in Ubuntu
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By displaying the size of files underneath the files itself, you are immediately aware of the files which occupy a lot of space and those which are not. This is especially useful if you are using a paltry 80 GB hard drive laptop like me ;-).
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PCLinuxOS 2010 (KDE)
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The last time I looked at PCLinuxOS was back in 2009 when I was working full-time for ExtremeTech. There’s a new release out and it’s a good time for a review of it here on DLR. I’ve also gotten some requests for it in the Request A Review page and I’m always happy to try and fulfill those requests.
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Linux compatible wireless keyboard
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SiTouch has announced the release of a new wireless keyboard. This is a very cool looking keyboard with back lit keys for low light. For those of us who occasionally work late on our computer this feature is appreciated.
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Peppermint: A New Linux Flavor for the Cloud
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A new cloud-focused Linux flavor launched recently; known as Peppermint, the operating system is currently a small, private beta and will open up to more testers over the next two to four weeks.
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Ceph: The Distributed File System Creature from the Object Lagoon
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Did you ever see one of those terrible Sci-Fi movies involving a killer Octopus? Ceph, while named after just such a animal, is not a creature about to eat an unlucky Spring Breaker, but a new parallel distributed file system. The client portion of Ceph just went into the 2.6.34 kernel so learn a bit more about it.
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Three Linux alternatives to iPhoto
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As a new (full-time) Linux user I’m looking more for a replacement for the dearly departed iView MediaPro, which likely went all to hell after Microsoft bought it a few years back.
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Botched antivirus knocks out 10% of Coles registers
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We pay out M$ taxes every time we buy a can of baked beans. Everything in supermarkets would be cheaper if they used Free Software.
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Are there really open source iPad alternatives? A follow-up.
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The comments here and elsewhere to my post about iPad alternatives have been mixed. No surprise. There will always be Apple defenders and open source defenders.
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10 ways to make your Samba life easier
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Samba allows Linux, Windows, and Mac to communicate with one another, but it has a reputation for being tricky to configure and administer. Here are some ways to reduce Samba headaches.
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