One of the nice, but somewhat hidden, features of the upcoming Ubuntu 10.4 release is that you can access chatting, tweeting, and social network all from a simple panel applet. Now I will warn you, this feature is not production-worthy. In other words, it will crash on you. But to see what is in store is certainly worth the effort of working with the tools.
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Shotwell 0.5 To Bring PicasaWeb Publishing, Tags, Printing, More
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Shotwell is (well almost) a relatively new open source photo organizer for the Gnome desktop which we were telling you about some time ago. Since then, Shotwell progressed a lot and the latest version 0.5 (not yet released) brings a lot of cool new features:
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Hands-on: a close look at Ubuntu's new non-brown theme
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Canonical is updating Ubuntu's look and feel with a new style that departs from the popular Linux distribution's traditional brown theming. The new theme, which was announced yesterday as part of an initiative to overhaul Ubuntu's branding and visual identity, will be used in the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 release, codenamed Lucid Lynx.
Read more »6 Desktop Fonts to try in Ubuntu
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A fresh install of Ubuntu yields one annoyance that seems to irritate most people: the default ‘Sans’ font is set at a gigantic 10px.
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Oh dear! Qt incompatibility on the horizon
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The Symbian Foundation and Nokia with Maemo (now MeeGo) are building two widget sets on top of QGraphicsView – while both are called Direct UI, they are entirely different. It’s totally braindead to have incompatibe widget sets.
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Linux Nvidia drivers might also have the GPU fan speed issue
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According to Nvidia, until the problem is resolved, Linux users should revert to 190.53 web release or the 195.30 public beta. They are going to remove the 195.36.08 and 195.36.03 drivers from NVIDIA's FTP site.
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How to install Open Office 3.2 in ubuntu 9.10
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Easy steps to install all new Open office 3.2 in ubuntu 9.10.
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How to open tabs at far right in firefox 3.6
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To set new tab behaviour back to its old ways in firefox.
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The Scoop on LibrePlanet: Interview with Deborah Nicholson of the FSF
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The Free Software Foundation is gearing up for a big event March 19th through 21st to be held in Cambridge, Mass. at Harvard's University Science Center. LibrePlanet 2010 is a three day event with workshops on using free software for everything from Web development to video editing and graphics.
Read more »Ubuntu Artwork Gaining Momentum - 5 Cool Community Themes from Ubuntu Artwork Pool
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The trend had already started with the release of Ubuntu Karmic. A number of community contributed themes started pouring in and some of them even got into the list of default themes for Ubuntu.
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Debian live CD distro rev'd
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The Elive team has released a long-awaited upgrade to its Debian-based, live CD-ready distro. The New Stable version of Elive 2.0, code-named Topaz, is equipped with the Enlightenment E17 desktop environment, but now offers an alternative Compaz desktop, plus new autolaunchers, system-recovery tools, and "configurators."
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Google open source guru says Android code will be in Linux kernel in time
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Google’s Android code will assume its rightful place in the Linux kernel — in good time, the company’s top open source guru says. The Android code was stripped out of the last kernel release, version 2.6.33, after Google reportedly failed to provide necessary changes and subsystem code required by kernel.org.
Read more »More filings in Novell
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It's been a busy week heading up to the Novell trial in Utah, and I had an accident, which is why I've been offline. I am recovering now, and we'll have the more detailed reports from the hearing shortly. There were some additional filings on Friday and this morning, including some more decisions from Judge Stewart (we have 762 as text), and some more pre-trial filings from both sides.
Read more »Taking Linux into the Wild Woods
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One of the things that's been wandering around my mind lately (one of thousands) is the thought of the wild woods. In other words, places in the world that are away from civilization, away from the normal creature comforts of daily life, such as areas in Northern Canada, Alaska, Siberia, sections of Africa, and others like that.
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Device Or Resource Busy Errors In Linux
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lsof is used to LiSt Open Files, hence the command’s name. It’s a handy tool normally used to list the open files on a system along with the associated processes or users, and can also be used to gather information on your system’s network connections. When run without options, lsof lists all open files along with all of the active processes that have them open.
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