In Windows they are used for a long time already, but most Linux-users probably don't even know that their system supports them too. Access Control Lists (ACLs) extend the regular permissions we all know with the possibility to give permissions for specific users/groups.
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Exciting Technologies coming to Linux
The first half of 2009. Once again open source proved that developers collaborating all over the world deliver constant platform improvement. Let’s see what they have in store for us this time.
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Phatch: Edit images in bulk (resolution, size limit, transpose images, watermarks, borders, shadows)
A great tool for doing this is 'Phatch', a free and open source platform that will allow editing of images in bulk and easily. The properties that we can change are size, resolution,size limit, transpose images, watermarks, borders, shadows, text ..
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PCLinuxOS 2009.2 fits like an old pair of jeans
Something has gone south in the recent developments of the Linux operating system. My old linux rig IBM Think T41 is experiencing significant slow downs with very latest revisions of Ubuntu, and other major distributions.
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Virtual Box Seamless Mode
Seamless mode allows Linux users to run those few Windows applications they can't live without in a more natural and integrated way. This article shows you what seamless mode is and how it works.
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State of the KDE Union
I love KDE. I have used KDE since 3.1 on Mandrake 9.1. Then KDE4 came around. The 4.0 RC was buggy, feature incomplete and hard to use. I felt alienated and switched to Debian and GNOME. KDE is a second class citizen in the world of debian based distros.
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7 of the Best Free Linux Twitter Clients
Micro-blogging is all the rage these days. ?It is a webservice which allows the subscriber to send short text updates or micromedia such as photos or audio clips and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group which can be chosen by the user.
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How To Get The M-Audio Transit USB Audio Device Working In Ubuntu 9.04 AMD64
This tutorial will explain how to get the M-Audio Transit USB audio device working under Ubuntu 9.04 amd64, although it may work for other versions. The Transit is usually a Windows only device and is not detected normally because the firmware has to be loaded in to the device; this is normally done by the Windows drivers. I’ve written this tutorial
Read more »UbuntuOne in the cloud
With more and more users turning to the Internet to store and share documents, Linux developer Ubuntu has also entered the market with a beta version of its UbuntuOne service (http://www.ubuntuone.com). The platform is a competitor to the likes of Dropbox and allows users to synchronise files between computers as well as sharing them with friends and colleagues.
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Canonical releases source code for Launchpad
London July 21, 2009: Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project, announced today that it has open-sourced the code that runs Launchpad, the software development and collaboration platform used by tens of thousands of developers.
Launchpad is used to build Ubuntu and thousands of other projects, and its users can now participate directly in the development of Launchpad itself.
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Change your GNOME wallpaper automatically with Wallpapoz
Are you a collector of wallpapers and do you like your wallpaper to change at a given interval or when you change to a different workspace? If you are that person then Wallpapoz is for you.
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The Hidden Cost of Microsoft's 'Free' Online Office Suite
Despite what you’ve heard, the online version of Office 2010 announced by Microsoft earlier this week won’t be free to corporate users, and isn’t a threat to the likes of Google, Adobe, or even Zoho, which sells online productivity software to small and medium-sized businesses.
Read more »The Legend of Edgar 0.20
* The game should now work on 64 bit CPUs
* Added the Forbidden Swamp boss
* Added basic inventory system so the player can see items and their quantities
* The Forest map now has proper scroll limits
* Water animates
* Raft interaction point only takes away the logs when the objective has been completed
* Added the Sewer and Fortress Outskirts maps
Share Firefox Add-ons with Collector
Ever had problems finding Firefox extensions? Want to tell the world about the extensions you find most useful? Now you can, using the Firefox Add-on Collector.
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Skrooge: Personal finance management +1
I ran out of money last month quite early (in NL you usually get paid once a month) and I did not understand why. Since Skrooge got imported last month in KDE SVN, I wondered if that could help me determine why.
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