One of the things I’ve always liked about using Linux is the feeling that my input is actually important. Either by way of giving input to the developers directly or (more importantly) reporting bugs that inevitably appear on a system. It’s the latter of the two that help Linux. But to the new user, these bugs are nothing more than a nuisance, getting in the way of things “just working”.
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The Linux Desktop Experience For 2010
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I’ve been looking at the vast range of Linux desktop flavours around and I thought it might be interesting to give my opinion on what I believe to be right up there as the best from my experience of trying them.
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10 Reasons Why the Linux Community Could Influence iPhone Sales
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Let's take a look at why Torvalds and the Linux community could affect iPhone sales, while helping Google's Android platform.
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Let your inner Video Director loose: "We're Linux" Video Contest 2010
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As you may recall, the Linux Foundation last year ran a video contest that drew a lot of entries, many of which were not only entertaining, but had surprisingly high production values as well. Last year's invitation was to use the popular "I'm a Mac/I'm a PC" ad series as an inspiration, and you can see the winning videos here (all of last year's entries can be found here).
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GNOME Boston Summit 2009
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GNOME Shell-- Jon McCann from Red Hat ran the first Shell session, on design. An amazing amount of progress had been made since the hackfast one year prior that spawned the Shell project, but some major tasks remained.
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Sketchpad (beta) (HTML5 drawing program)
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Sketchpad uses the little-known [canvas] tag to provide users and publishers with full control over the presentational qualities of their work. Directly accessing vector graphics, the [canvas] tag gives publishers real-access to their users' display. The [canvas] tag will be available in HTML 5.0.
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Tweaking Linux Library Settings Within Readline
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Readline is the library that handles your Linux command-line input (and input for some other applications). The various customizable options for it are set either system-wide in /etc/inputrc or per-user in ~/.inputrc.
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Memo to Dell: Sort Out Your Ubuntu Strategy
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Dell's Ubuntu strategy once again faces Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD). Multiple times in the past 12 months or so, Dell's strong Ubuntu efforts have been undermined by disappearing desktop offerings. Here's what's wrong - and right - with Dell's Ubuntu initiatives.
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ubuntu-server: installing different GUIs
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By default ubuntu-server does not come with any graphic desktop environment or GUI. Which is good, because it is server. However, sometimes it would be useful to have some GUI. It is not a problem to install it. Admins have quite a few options for GUIs. Here I will show only few of them.
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What’s Likeable About Likewise Open for Ubuntu
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Traditionally, configuring Ubuntu servers to integrate with Microsoft Active Directory was not a lot of fun. It wasn't exactly difficult, but it involved editing lots of PAM and Kerberos configuration files, and often some perilous trial-and-error. But these days, there's a better way - for many situations, at least - and it's called Likewise. Here's how it works, and why I think it's so gre
Read more »Ubuntu 9.10 and GNOME 2.28: Advancing Past Meh
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Many eons ago, GNOME 1.4 still lived, and it was good. It was extremely configurable and hackable. You could use either Enlightenment or Sawfish as the window manager, and could customize it to your heart's content. And then tragedy struck: GNOME 2.0 was born.
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How to Install KDE SC 4.4 on Ubuntu 9.10
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After months of hard work, the KDE Software Compilation (SC) suite reached version 4.4.0 on February 9th, 2010 – implementing over 1,400 new feature requests, new applications, new effects, eliminating over 7,00 bugs.
Read more »Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 3.1.x On An OpenSUSE 11.2 Server
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This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun VirtualBox 3.1.x on a headless OpenSUSE 11.2 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment.
Read more »When Linux Nerds Choose Mates from the Windows Herd
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Look...let's face this together. Dating can suck. Throw your use/obsession of Linux into the mix and what do you get?
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Moonlight 3.0 preview offered for rich Internet apps on Linux and Unix
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Moonlight 3.0, which puts Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet plug-in software on Linux and Unix platforms, is now being offered in an alpha release, according to Web pages from the Mono project, which has jurisdiction over Moonlight. The release features infrastructural capabilities designed to move Moonlight closer to the capabilities of Silverlight 3, said Novell, which sponsors Mono.
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