Now with any major new release of GNOME you are going to get alot of “omg totally awesome new stuff in gnome!” posts. The real question is do you want it to do something new?
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The size of the Gentoo tree
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You might have noticed that I started working on cleaning up the tree (before I had a few problems with my system, but that’s for another day). Some people wondered whether that’s really going to make much difference, so I wanted to take a look.
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First KDialogue Is Now Open
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Today, the KDE Community Forums, in collaboration with "People Behind KDE", have launched a new initiative to give the community an opportunity to get to know each other a bit closer: KDialogue.
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Paint.NET for Linux: Paint.Mono
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Paint.NET is one of the best image editing applications for Windows and it has a version for Linux too, called Paint.Mono (or Mono Paint). According to Miguel de Icaza, most of the features in Paint.NET have been ported over to Paint-Mono, with more to come. Apparently, this should also work on Mac OSX, details HERE.
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This Week: Intel, Graphics & Mobile Linux
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Intel hosted their developer conference this week in San Francisco (Intel Developer Forum) where several new announcements were made, with Linux being involved in some of these announcements. It was revealed that Dell will begin shipping Ubuntu Moblin Netbook Remix on one of their Atom-powered netbooks, Moblin 2.0 was released, and there was a snapshot of Moblin 2.1 was released.
Read more »Sometimes It Seems Like Unix(*) Needs to Learn from Windows
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I’ve pretty much assumed that technologically speaking, if Windows has it, Unix and the like must also have the same functionality. As I re-engage with Unix and Linux developers and IT professionals in recent months, though, I can see that there are some areas – particularly in security - where Windows is far ahead of the *x operating systems. Here’s a few...
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Ubuntu gets set to mark fifth birthday
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The new kid on the GNU/Linux block is getting long in the tooth. In about three weeks, Ubuntu will be five years old.
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Pidgin stores passwords in clear text!!!!
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For pidgin users, there is a security issue regarding storing passwords in pidgin, so this program stores the passwords in archives .xml in clear text without any encryption. So any one can easily boot into recovery mode while you are away and find all your passwords in plain text. Then he can just copy the password files and opps he will got all the passwords easy way.
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How to connect iPhone/iPod Touch (Using USB) in Karmic/Jaunty/Intrepid/Hardy
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If you want iphone/ipod touch in ubuntu easy way is using iFuse program.
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Ubuntu Spelunkers Need Help
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This is the third entry in the continuing "cave dwellers" saga and their new lives with Ubuntu. Someone posted a comment on the previous cave dwellers entry about iTunes not working on Linux. What's a penguinista to do? Try WINE.
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5 alternative image manipualtion apps for Linux newbies
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One of the drawbacks to most people who want to migrate to Linux is that it lacks some really good image manipulation applications. Below are five.
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6 of the best media burners for Linux
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Despite all the glitz, the same age-old tools are chugging away at the back-end, giving the front-end apps approximately equal powers. So, how do the various disc burning apps stack up against each other and which one should you trust with your data?
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Is the FSF shooting the open-source community in the foot?
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Like many I'm sure, I'd heard a little of the Free Software Foundation. I recently stumbled upon a new campaign being run by the FSF, entitled the "Windows 7 Sins"... you guessed it - timed around the release of the launch of Win7.
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A different kind of suicide
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It is official by now that there are maniacs out there who already migrated their root-filesystem on BTRFS. So why not joining those freaks?
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Novell Customers Complain About New Charges
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