Often, when I ask why users don’t adopt Linux, I am met with the response “There are no CAD (Computer Aided Design) applications. Now I will confess that I know next to nothing about CAD, so I thought I would take a moment to highlight some of the CAD applications available for the Linux operating system.
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Go-oo - OpenOffice with a twist
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All your friends and business partners run Microsoft Office and you cannot afford to have any blunders when reading their documents. Likewise, you don't want to have your presentations all garbled up when you import them from Impress to PowerPoint. What about Office 2007? What about macros in your Excel sheets?
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Linux Foundation Lashes Out at Microsoft Over Attacks on GNU/Linux
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Microsoft is slammed publicly by the Linux Foundation for allegedly attempting to have Linux sued by patent trolls; more patent news
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The New Artwork in Ubuntu 9.10
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Some of the community themes and icons that will be present in the upcoming Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) operating system.
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Thunderbird Quick Folders
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There are basically two types of desktop email software users. Type one uses one huge folder for all emails while type 2 neatly sorts emails into subfolders for better manageability.
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Trouble in Novell/Microsoft Paradise
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Novell discovers what it's like to work with a "partner" like Microsoft now that Novell employees are left to make Microsoft hooks work
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openSUSE Goes Offline To Transform
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Having your Linux distribution suddenly disappear from the internet would put a strain on anyone. It does happen from time to time, however, something the team at Fedora can testify to. Announcing in advance that your distro will pull a David Copperfield would prove far less stressful, and that's exactly what the good people at openSUSE have done.
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MS Confirms Attack on GNU/Linux
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Microsoft confirms the authenticity of its lies about GNU/Linux; Richard Stallman's talk in Argentina debated further
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Is Xen Mature Enough to Replace VMWare?
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Charlie Schluting helps admins decide if Xen is a viable alternative to VMWare. Why move away from VMWare? Xen is open source and less expensive. But will it do the job?
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Basic video editing using PiTiVi
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It's no secret that one of the biggest things that Linux in general is lacking of is a good, simple video editor. There's a lot of video editors available yet none are exactly any good except for, in my opinion, PiTiVi.
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Laconica is now StatusNet
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"I’m happy to announce today that our main product, the Open Source microblogging server Laconica, has a new name.
StatusNet is the new name that simply reflects what our software does: sends status updates into your social network. We think it’s clear and simple, serious without being stuffy."
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Linux Foundation to Microsoft: Stop Secretly Attacking Linux
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Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin issued a scathing condemnation of Microsoft's recent attempts to unload Linux-related patents to patent trolls. He calls for the company to 'stop secretly attacking Linux' and compete on the basis of quality rather than FUD.
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The G:Noblin 3.0 is Released
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The GoblinX Project is proud to announce the release of the new stable G:Noblin distribution. The G:Noblin 3.0 is Released.
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Developing with Real-time Java: Improve Service Quality
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This article, second in a three-part series, explains the root causes of delays and interruptions in a JVM and describes techniques you can use to mitigate them so that your applications deliver more consistent service quality.
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Password less ssh login using RSA/DSA authentication in Fedora 11
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The Goal of this tutorial
Get a secure, encrypted connection to a remote machine without typing in a password.
What is OpenSSH ?
OpenSSH is a secure way of connecting to remote computers and transfering files. The OpenSSH suite includes the following programs (among others)
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