Linux has plenty of flowchart tools to satisfy nearly any need. Once of those tools is Dia. Dia is an open source, GTK+-based diagram creation tool for Linux.
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How to: Set Up TrueCrypt Disk Encryption, Part 2
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In this second and final part, we'll discuss more complex methods and see how to configure TrueCrypt to automatically mount.
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The Three Giants of Linux
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In the land of Linux, there are three giants. Three distributions which have stood the test of time and from which most others have come. What makes these three unique and how have they shaped Linux as we know it today?
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Apple Chastised Even by Its Own Advocates for Suing Linux Using Software Patents
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Apple's highly unnecessary lawsuit has the company suffer wrath and flak, including some from its own supporters
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POSIX IO Must Die!
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POSIX IO is becoming a serious impediment to IO performance and scaling. POSIX is one of the standards that enabled portable programs and POSIX IO is the portion of the standard surrounding IO. But as the world of storage evolves with greatly increasing capacities and greatly increasing performance, it is time for POSIX IO to evolve or die.
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Ron Hovsepian Receives Another Large Lump of Cash as Novell Sale Looms
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Coverage of what seems like the inevitable sale of Novell (NOVL) to other hands
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My search for the best KDE Linux distribution
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As some of you already know, I am a big fan of the KDE desktop environment. In my search to reach Linux KDE perfection I have tested out a number of different distributions.
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Open-source hardware takes baby steps toward the gadget mainstream
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The success of open-source software raises a tantalizing question: Could the same design philosophy work for tech gadgets? Open-source software is one of the great success stories of the past few decades.
Read more »Ubuntu dumps the brown, introduces new theme and branding
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Canonical has revealed the style of the new default theme that will be used in Ubuntu 10.04, the next major version of the popular Linux distribution. In a significant departure from tradition, Ubuntu is shedding its signature brown color scheme and is adopting a new look with a palette that includes orange and an aubergine shade of purple.
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Orange backs Intel-Nokia Linux drive
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Orange has given its thumbs-up to the Intel-Nokia Linux venture Meego, the OS formerly known as Maemo and Moblin. The mobile phone network essentially said it would develop its applications, marketed under the Signature brand, to run on the operating system, allowing it to offer customer user experiences on anything from netbooks to smartphones.
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Of Android and the Fear of Fragmentation
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Glyn Moody takes a look at the state of Android, at the worries that the platform is fragmenting and why it isn't a bad thing
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Bash Scripting Introduction w/ Examples
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Shell is a program, which interprets user commands. The commands are either directly entered by the user or read from a file called the shell script.
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Should Novell Go Private?
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The company received what they call an "unsolicited proposal from Elliott Associates, L.P. to acquire the Company for $5.75 per share in cash," which values the company at just under $2 billion.
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Elliott Associates Offers to Buy Novell
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The hedge fund Elliott Associates said Tuesday afternoon that it had made an offer to buy Novell in a deal that valued the business software company at about $2 billion. Elliott said it would pay $5.75 a share in cash for Novell, a price that is 21 percent higher than Novell's closing stock price on Tuesday.
Read more »More Pretrial Briefs in SCO v. Novell
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Both SCO and Novell have begun to file their additional pretrial briefs, stemming from the discussion at the most recent hearing. Novell has filed a Request for Judicial Notice of Prior Factual Findings and the parties jointly submit a Submission Addressing Allocation of Issues for Bench and Jury Trial. SCO has filed a Brief Regarding Issues to be Tried in Equity by the Court.
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