Sidux is a distro I’ve never tried before. Its a Debian unstable based system with a rolling release. Basically, its based upon Debian ‘unstable’, and instead of having one big release that everyone works on, it just updates certain packages everytime a new version is released.
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The best Linux desktop search tools
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Compared with their internet brethren, today's desktop search tools can be used not only to look for the names of files on your disk, but can also perform context-sensitive searches within email archives, images, videos and music.
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Xephyr - Multiple nested X sessions
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If the title of this article sounds like something from Star Trek, you're not far off. It's a very geeky thing, which allows you to export X (GUI) applications as separate entities on top of your desktop. Indeed, Xephyr is an X server utility. As such, it allows you to manage your virtual consoles, without leaving the safety and comfort of your desktop.
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Interview: Arch Linux Team
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A few weeks ago, we asked for the OSNews community to help with some questions we were going to ask Aaron Griffin from the Arch Linux team, and the response was glorious and somewhat phenomenal.
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OpenSUSE 11.2 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend
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This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on OpenSUSE 11.2 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.
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How to Install GNOME 3 (GNOME-Shell) in ubuntu 9.10Karmic Koala
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GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a desktop environment created for the operating system
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In an ideal world…
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… every Free Software project should not only have developers, but also: * graphical artists, * usability experts, * user support specialists, * documentation writers/translators, * software translators, * bug triagers, * marketing ninjas, * community managers, * release managers, * website and wiki maintainers, * unlimited funds…
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A Few Resources for Women in Open Source
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Want to encourage more women to get involved -- including yourself? These links might help.
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Mozilla preparing to ditch Firefox add-ons
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One of the features that attract geeks and power users to Firefox is add-ons. these simple browser extensions allow you to customize pretty much everything about the browser, from the page being displayed to the browser itself. Extensions are powerful stuff, but Mozilla is working on a project that could see add-ons as we know them disappear.
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Download "Undo / Redo" Patched Nautilus [Ubuntu .deb Packages]
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I've recently found some patched (by mriya3) Nautilus packages for Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic (Nautilus 2.28.1) which has "Undo" and "Redo" actions integrated - a really important feature missing in Nautilus. I've been using it for a while and it works great!
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Managing Bibliographies with OpenOffice.org and Zotero
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If OpenOffice.org’s own bibliography feature doesn’t really cut it for you, you have several choices. One popular bibliography solution is Bibus, a cross-platform tool that integrates nicely with OpenOffice.org. It is, however, not the only bibliographical tool out there. In fact, there is another nifty tool called Zotero.
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Mozilla Starts to Follow a New Drumbeat
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As Firefox gets closer and closer to that 50% market share around the world (it's already there in some countries), the question is: what next? The answer is Mozilla Drumbeat, an ambitious project to "make sure the internet is still open, participatory 100 years from now."
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Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring Alpha 1 released
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The Mandriva developers have announced the availability of the first alpha of what will become Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring (2010.1)
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CodeWeavers CrossOver 9.0 coming soon
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CrossOver 9.0. CodeWeavers CrossOver 9.0 is slated for launch sometime towards the end of January beginning of February 2010 and represents a major step forward for the CrossOver product. At this time no definite release date is scheduled, but it should be within the next month or so. Screenshots of 9.0 pre builds are included in this article. :)
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Ubuntu v. Macintosh and Windows
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I'm not bowled over by the Macintosh. It's a great OS with some great tools and like a friend said on Facebook when I first got it, it is Linux with great multi-media.
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