One thing that I love about Linux (and Ubuntu) is that it is fully customizable and I can configure it to the way that I want it. Previously, I have already illustrated its flexibility by showing how you can transform Ubuntu Hardy and Intrepid into Mac OS X. Today, let’s bring a step further and see how we can transform Kubuntu Jaunty to Windows 7 in 3 simple steps.
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Actors, Messages and Low Lock Contention for Java
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Using actors and messages, concurrency is easier to understand. However, most developers don't want to learn a new programming language in order to use actors and messages. If you want to forget a bit about threads and locks, you can add nice actor support to an existing Java application using Jetlang.
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Xubuntu 9.04 frequently asked questions
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We give a huge bunch of user support at #xubuntu. After each release, there’s a peak for the need of user support. Here’s some of the most asked questions after the Xubuntu 9.04 release.
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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #149
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #149 for the week June 28th - July 4th, 2009 is available.
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Which distribution do I download?
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There are a lot of GNU/Linux distributions out there. It takes time and some effort to find a compatible one that fits your needs.
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SCO's Proposed Amended Complaint Against AutoZone, as text
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As I mentioned earlier, SCO is asking the court [PDF] to let it amend its complaint against AutoZone, which is probably the only way it can go forward unless the appellate court rules in SCO's favor -- and then a jury does too, down the road apiece. We have the motion and the proposed amended complaint as text now.
Read more »The Reactive Desktop
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This blog started at the last Akademy in Mechelen as some thoughts on the location aware desktop, what apps would benefit, and how we should be looking to use GeoClue to achieve this rather than rolling our own.
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Tech blog titan Michael Arrington’s next big thing: Hardware
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In four years, Michael Arrington has gone from knowing relatively little about the Internet or journalism to presiding over the hugely popular, influential and profitable Palo Alto-based TechCrunch network of blogs. Now, Arrington appears to be on the verge of entering the computer hardware business.
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Open Suse 11.1 Review
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Open Suse is one of the few Linux distributions which seems to evolve by leaps and bounds with every new release. Although numbered as an incremental upgrade from version 11.0, Open Suse 11.1 contains enough improvements and new features.
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Gnome-Colors: Elegant, consistent and colourful GNOME desktop themes
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I have never been a big fan of the default Brown/Orange GNOME themes that ship as standard with each new Ubuntu distribution. It turns out that there is a brilliant project called Gnome-Colours that has set itself the task of dealing with this problem.
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Scalix gains mobile device synchronization
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Xandros-owned email and groupware vendor Scalix released Scalix ActiveSync 1.0, a push email and synchronization add-on to Scalix Server that implements Microsoft's Exchange ActiveSync protocol for wireless message synchronization. Scalix also released Scalix Server 11.4.4, touted for its over 200 improvements.
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winetricks 20090705 released
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Another winetricks version was released today.
The only interesting change is the addition of shockwave,
and maybe the update to firefox 3.5.
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PlayOnLinux 3.6 released
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A little news to announce that PlayOnLinux 3.6 is out.
- The novelty this time is the integration of winetricks (which has been modified for PlayOnLinux) by use of the "tricks" command.
This way script writers will be able to use it easily.
I also took this opportunity to clean out the code by deleting useless files and corrected minor bugs.
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Kompozer- Easy and powerfull web builder for Linux
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KompoZer is a complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing. It is designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding.
Read more »Tim O'Reilly: Open-source purists trying to answer the wrong question
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Of the formative figures in open source, Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Eric Raymond loom large. Arguably, however, few have had as much of a disruptive force as Tim O'Reilly, who has helped to create the open-source market and has spent the last six years reshaping it with his seminal "Open Source Paradigm Shift" and other articles.
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