The Plasma Javascript Jam Session is a friendly competition that aims to reward creators of original, interesting and beautiful Plasma widgets written in Javascript with some great prizes and community recognition. The competion concluded on March 31st with 11 successful submissions making the deadline.
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Notmuch release 0.1 now available
The very first release of new email client, which aims to work with millions of messages, indexing, searching and tagging them all. It is written on C and uses Xapian library for very fast searching engine. Also, in comparisong to other email clients, it is divided intro frontend and backend, gaining modularization of functionality.
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SimplyMEPIS 8.5.01 Screenshot Review
I've tried several versions of the SimplyMEPIS but never really got hooked on the visual appearance leaving me wondering what beginners find so appealing in SimplyMEPIS. With the release of SimplyMEPIS 8.5.01 and addition of KDE 4.3.4 I decided this was the perfect time to give it a try and see what all the fuss is about.
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Why public education must use public software
Public education ideally provides a comprehensive education for every citizen as one of the greatest accomplishments of worldwide civil governments. Without a successful public education system, the well-being of society is threatened.
Read more »Configure hostgroups for Nagios
Say, for instance, you have a number of machines that serve as Web servers or Samba servers. Instead of having to scroll around to find them, you can group those machines together, by service, to make for much easier monitoring.
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First Look – Mandriva 2010.1 beta 1 – Gnome Edition
The first beta release of Mandriva 2010.1 has been made available for testing. Being fans of the 2010 release (it was, in our opinion, Mandriva's best to date) we were eager to see what kind of progress is being made on their next stable release.
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I have seen the future, and it is GNOME 3
Today I finally managed to get GNOME Shell installed so I could get a preview of what is to come on the Linux desktop (at least through the eyes of GNOME). GNOME 3 is different. Very different.
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Open Innovation's Challenge: Letting Go Is Hard To Do
Open-source software provides an important example of how companies can leverage external sources of innovation. In practice, however, big high-tech companies often have a difficult time collaborating and sharing control.
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No excuse for programmers and multiple platforms.
You most probably know that the people who produce Songbird have dropped Linux support. Programming across multiple operating systems is easy. I do it.
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adeskbar, for fun and profit
I have used wbar in Openbox setups off and on for the past year or so, since I saw it at work with Tiny Core Linux. If you’re GUI-oriented anyway, adeskbar might be a winner for being quicker on the configuration.
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12 More of the Best Free Linux Books
Many computer users have an insatiable appetite to deepen their understanding of computer operating systems and computer software. Linux users are no different in that respect.
Read more »Are HP and Dell giving up on netbooks?
Faced with disappointing sales, HP and Dell are scaling back investments in 10-inch netbooks, with HP possibly quitting the format entirely, according to DigiTimes. Other motivators were said to include expectations for re-invigorated sales of larger, more expensive notebooks fueled by a recovering economy.
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Kopete disconnects from Yahoo
As long as I am using Kopete, sending messages, etc. everything is as it should be. No connection problems at all. As soon as I let the program go idle, it starts disconnecting every ten minutes, giving an Error 17 message, like clockwork. It always reconnects on it’s own, but as you can see from the screenshot, you could set your watch by when it disconnects from the Yahoo server.
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GNOME 3 System Status Area Mockups
In GNOME 3, the System Status Area is a place where System Status Indicators represent the status of the system to the user. This is not an area that is variously called the Notification Area or System Tray and should not be used by applications (foreground or background) to indicate their status.
Read more »VBoxManage Lite - A wrapper script around VirtualBox’s ‘VBoxManage’ command
VBoxManage Lite - A wrapper script around VirtualBox's "VBoxManage" command
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