Thanks to Tejas Guruswamy for a very good write up on build service repositories for KDE.
Read more »Understanding WordPress Theme: The Basics of Creating Your Own WP Theme
There are a variety of free and premium WordPress themes that you can find throughout the web. You will sometime find that you can spend hours trying to modify the theme, so it is tailored to the way you want it. Sometimes it’s easier to create your own from scratch, and not deal with the headaches that can happen with customization of an existing WordPress theme.
Read more »Possible solutions to Fix the Missing Network Manager Icon in Ubuntu 9.10
This morning, I booted up my laptop and tried to connect to the school's wireless when I noticed that the icon for Network Manager was missing from the toolbar. I checked to see that Network Manager was running and it was, the icon had just disappeared for some reason.
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How to Install Virtual Box 3.1 in Ubuntu 9.10 karmic Koala
VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. It is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems
Read more »Fedora Project Board Starts into 2010
The project chair has appointed Red Hat employee Colin Walters to the board. John Poelstra begins the year with open feedback to the board's work.
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Ximian Founder Nat Friedman Leaves Novell
After nearly 7 years at Novell and over 11 years in the Linux business, the newly-wed Nat Friedman will take a trip around the world before founding a startup in the U.S.A..
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Can Nexus One Rally Future Linux Phones to Challenge the iPhone?
Google has definitely raised the bar for future Linux phones with their newly launched smartphone. It's now up to other Linux-powered smartphone innovators to live up to the challenge.
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EtherPad source code is free, now what?
Google's newly-acquired startup AppJet released the source code to its popular EtherPad web editor recently, making good on a promise to EtherPad's users who were previously faced with a service shutdown following the acquisition.
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New Roadmap Charting The Road Ahead
It’s my pleasure to introduce to you the single greatest Launchpad planning achievement for 2010: the roadmap.
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Open Source in 2010: Nine Predictions
We can take for granted, I think, that open source will continue to gain popularity. 2010 will not be the fabled Year of the Linux Desktop, but we should continue to see the same slow, steady increase in adoption of the past decade.
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Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.33 (Part 1) - Networking
Linux 2.6.33 will have new and improved drivers for Wi-Fi chips by Intel, Ralink and Realtek. Several drivers for old Wi-Fi hardware have been moved to the staging area and will probably soon be discarded. New additions include various LAN chip drivers and several improvements to the network stack.
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Two Websites Enter: Myspace vs. Facebook
Welcome to the first installment of the Two Websites Enter, where we put two similar, and competing websites against each other in a battle to decide who is number one. Grab a comfy chair, some tasty snacks, and get ready to rumble!
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KDE 4.4 Release Candidate 1 Available
KDE has made the first release candidate of the KDE Software Compilation 4.4 available. The first KDE SC release (albeit not a stable one) is the first release candidate for the upcoming KDE Software Compilation 4.4.0 which will be released on February 9th.
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openSUSE 11.2 Gnome edition - Fantastic
I'm such a plonker. I've only recently realized that all these years, I've never tried openSUSE with the Gnome desktop. And having just done that, I must say I regret the omission oh so badly, because openSUSE 11.2 with Gnome is simply fabulous. Even more so than the KDE edition.
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The $99 Cherrypal laptop - it runs Linux and you can buy it RIGHT NOW (but is it for real?)
Everybody's heard about the One Laptop Per Child concept, and the ups and downs of that project, its wavering connection to free, open-source software and the fact that it still hasn't reached the $100/unit price it set out to meet. But what if I were to tell you that another company not only is committed to offering a $99 laptop to the world but is already doing it.
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