"Much ado about nothing" sums up the recent attacks on the role of GNU inside GNOME; clarifications are hereby presented
Read more »Recent Attacks on GNU and Richard Stallman Based on Distortions, Lies
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2010 and the Fate of Your (Virtual) Desktop
Do you think that converting your clunky, maintenance-burdened physical desktop OS to a clunky, maintenance-burdened VM will save you some money? Think again.
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HowTo: Create sar Graphs With kSar [ Identifying Linux Bottlenecks ]
The sar command collect, report, or save UNIX / Linux system activity information. It will save selected counters in the operating system to the /var/log/sa/sadd file. From the collected data, you get lots of information about your server...
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Has Transgaming Abandoned Cedega?
While nothing official has been posted by the company itself, I feel it is pretty obvious Transgaming is letting Cedega die a slow death. November 13th 2009 marked the one year date since we last saw an update in Cedegas news page. And Transgaming does not check their user forums (or they really just don't care about what happens there if they do).
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Wine 1.1.35 Released
The Wine development release 1.1.35 is now available.
What's new in this release:
* Support for OLE transacted storage.
* Better certificate checking on secure connections.
* More progress on the 16-bit separation.
* Left 4 Dead 2 DRM really supported now.
* MSI performance improvements.
* 64-bit fixes in debugger support.
* Various bug fixes.
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Searching and Filtering Photos in digiKam -- Part 1
Designed to manage hundreds and even thousands of photos, digiKam provides top-notch searching capabilities that can help you to find the photos you want in several different ways.
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ERP vendor offers to take over MySQL
French ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Nexedi made a public bid Monday to take over stewardship of the open-source MySQL database from Sun Microsystems, offering a symbolic €1 in return.
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Taking a Look at VLOS
Why VLOS you may ask, well hang on and you will see how Sabayon’s entropy and molecule is helping others produce their own distros. I was browsing distrowatch the other night and noticed that VLOS has come back to life.
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HP Enlists Partners to Help Steal Sun's Customers
IBM has been crowing about its efforts to lure away Sun Microsystems customers, but it's not the only major IT vendor hoping to benefit from its continued woes.
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Custom Transitioning Backgrounds In KDE3
My recent article about transitioning slide show backgrounds in GNOME garnered quite a bit of attention, so here's my first reminder of how to do the same thing in other desktop environments. This one will show you how to create a custom slide show backgrounds in KDE3.
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Charlie's Games Release Irukandji for Linux!
Awesomely addictive underwater shoot-em-up!Charlie's Games today announce the immediate release of Irukandji for Linux!
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Android Market reaches 20,000 applications
According to AndroLib, Google's Android Market has just crossed the 20,000 application milestone. The new milestone comes just over three months after reaching the 10,000 mark and shows strong application growth for the open source mobile operating system.
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Download YouTube Videos in Ubuntu in One Easy Step
Downloading YouTube videos is among the first things you will look for once you get Ubuntu installed in your computer. Let me introduce you the easiest way to download(or save?) YouTube videos in your Ubuntu machine.
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One Android to Rule Them All?
Android is maturing, both for developers and consumers. Will it dominate the mobile market? 2010 may bring the answer. Two years ago I began writing a book about writing applications for Android. Back then, most people had not heard of Android — in fact, unless you’re a phone-geek or a Linux fan, you may still not have heard of Android.
Read more »Get the best KDE Linux distro
But we feel KDE 4 has now matured to a point where most KDE users can safely dump their old desktop and move on to the new one. There are very few stability issues, and most of the functionality found in 3.5 has been migrated to 4.3.
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