It takes money to make money, and commercial Linux distributor Red Hat knows this. Red Hat has made no secret of the fact that it wants to get more of its sales through indirect channels.
Read more »Red Hat steps up channel reach against Novell and Microsoft
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KDE Partition Manager - First Stable Release
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KDE Partition Manager allows you to manage your disks, partitions and file systems: Create, resize, delete, copy, backup and restore partitions with a large number of supported file systems (ext2/3, reiserfs, NTFS, FAT32 and more).
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Moonlight 2.0 Beta 1 Rolls Out With Improvements
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While betas of Microsoft's Silverlight 3 platform have been available for a number of months after being announced in the last half of 2008, their free software implementation of Silverlight, which is known as Moonlight and developed largely by Novell with the Mono developers, has lagged behind.
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Novell Gets Closer to Silverlight With Moonlight 2 for Linux
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Open source Silverlight clone gets new milestone release as it races towards feature parity with Microsoft.
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Ubuntu Tip:Howto reduce Adobe Acrobat file size from command line
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If you want to Adobe Acrobat file size using command line you can use ghostscript. Ghostscript is used for PostScript/PDF preview and printing. Usually as a back-end to a program such as ghostview, it can display PostScript and PDF documents in an X11 environment.
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The Linux users' guide to Mac OS X
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...if the thought of getting to know OS X puts you off, fear not: there's a lot of common ground between Mac and Linux that isn't immediately obvious.
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Secure VPN the Easy Way With the Linux-based Untangle Router
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OpenVPN is a genuine secure VPN that supports both site-to-site tunnels, to create a nice secure WAN on the cheap, and remote individual clients. Eric Geier shows us how to use the Untangle gateway to set up a good stout OpenVPN server the easy way.
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Rpath to Foresight Linux: Change to Fedora!
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In order for Foresight Linux to follow development trends more quickly, Michael Johnson (the founder of rPath and former head of Fedora) has proposed switching from rPath Linux to Fedora.
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Firefox is favourite for early adopters
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Firefox was the most widely-used browser among early tech adopters in Q2, followed by Google's Chrome browser, according to software discovery engine Wakoopa. The report, which looks at the emerging trends in desktop software and web applications, found that 55% of early adopters favour Firefox.
Read more »Ubuntu 9.10 vs Windows 7: No Ordinary October Showdown
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Canonical's Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) and Microsoft's Windows 7 are expected to debut within days of one another in October 2009. Some open source pundits will surely hype a showdown between the two operating systems. But Canonical will need to carefully communicate the broader Ubuntu 9.10 story to media, customers and partners.
Read more »Red Hat Gets Serious About Virtualization
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Two weeks before the VMworld and Red Hat Summit conferences, Red Hat is bolstering its virtualization strategy. The latest move involves a new partner program that emphasizes virtualization training. Here's the scoop.
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Open Source Textbook Project Launching
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Now, the spotlight is starting to focus on digital textbooks. One reason is an initiative from CK-12 Foundation, a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to jump starting the distribution of textbooks in electronic formats.
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digiKam is da blast!
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I have never paid much attention to digiKam until a friend at a forum I frequent suggested it as a worthy addition to the Users' recommendation section in my New cool list of Linux must have programs. Boy, digiKam is a great surprise! Follow me for a spin.
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Gimp for Beginners Part 1
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This is the first part of The Gimp beginner series I am writing for LFY. The first part consist of user Interface introduction. So download the pdf and get started with Gimp.
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Replacing the default screen shot utility on ubuntu with shutter
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Shutter, according to its website is a feature full screen shot program. As a tech blogger experimenting with GNU/Linux and its derivatives, it offers me a number of handy features. In fact, I have replaced it as my default screen shot tool. When I press Print Screen on my keyboard,shutter pops up and does a nice job.
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