Firefox 3.5 comes with several great new features, like the private browsing mode or the support for open video integration (full review here). Since Ubuntu Jaunty comes with version 3.0.11, if you want to try the new Firefox 3.5 release all you have to do is follow the few steps below:
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Windows users, stop complaining and do something!
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A lot of users are not happy with Microsoft Windows. There are alternatives and GNU/Linux is a good choice.
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Top 4 Free Photo Editor
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There are many great photo and graphic software for a nice amount of dollars out there, but finding the few good applications that are also free is harder.
Here are a few good ones – both the online version and those you install on your desktop.
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How to download and burn a Linux Mint or Ubuntu live CD?
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Last week I told you that one of the nice things with Linux is that you do not have to buy a CD to obtain a copy to install on your computer, you can burn a Linux live CD yourself. This is a small guide on how to proceed...
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Is Red Hat a Takeover Target?
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What with Oracle CEO Larry Ellison showing a hefty appetite for enterprise software companies including those selling Open Source products the blogs and analyst ranks are buzzing with rumors that RedHat will get bought by Oracle. Or maybe by IBM as a defensive play? Or even possibly (gasp) by Microsoft?
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What People Say About Microsoft’s Alleged Anti-Linux Lawsuit (via T3)
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LAST WEEK was the last time we wrote about the T3 lawsuit, having pointed out that it is part of an innovative pattern. Over at Groklaw, in relation to the T3 lawsuit, Pamela Jones wrote: "Microsoft rivals end up defendants in litigation with Microsoft showing up somewhere in the background? How could that ever happen? Kidding...
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Vodcast: Dell’s Ubuntu Linux Strategy
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I spent June 26 at Dell's headquarters in Austin, Texas, meeting key members of Dell's Linux team. We spent an hour discussing the broad Linux market; Dell's current Ubuntu strategy; and the PC giant's early reaction to Moblin (Mobile Linux).
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tridge offers a new patch to Linux's VFAT filesystem
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tridge has done it again, offering a patch to Linux's VFAT filesystem that retains support for long names, while carefully avoiding ever having both a long and a short name for the same file. As before, media containing the old long/short-name combination VFAT format are still supported.
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Ubuntu’s Papercuts: Usability in Little Things
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Ubuntu's One Hundred Papercuts project seems to be progressing smoothly. On schedule, the first ten papercuts have been fixed.
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2016: Year of the Free Software Web Browser
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The estimation is that in 2016 Q2 there will be more users of free software web browsers than users of proprietary ones.
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Is There a Perfect Linux Filesystem?
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Most often, when someone talks about a filesystem or file system, they're referring to disk filesystems such as NTFS, FAT, ext2, ext3, ext4, ISO 9660 and many others but can also refer to network file systems such as CIFS and NFS. But, is there a perfect filesystem?
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How Firefox Gets Grass-roots Marketing Right
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At times it feels like the ad industry is constantly besieged by bad news: Budgets are getting trimmed, mass audiences are splintering into niches, display ad click-through rates are at all-time lows and no one has figured out the social-media equation just yet.
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Command Aliases in Unix shells
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One of the really useful features almost every Unix shell has is support for command aliases – a way to run a command or a series of Unix commands using a shorter name you get associated with such commands.
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Sony building Android-based Walkman and PND for 2010 launch?
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Building upon Sony Ericsson's plan to launch its first handset based on Android 2.0, we're now hearing that Android will play a prominent role across Sony's portable devices starting with an Android-based Walkman and personal navigation device (PND) launching sometime in 2010.
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DigiKam 1.0.0 First Beta
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Gilles Caulier has announced the first beta version of DigiKam with the magic number 1.0.0. Downloads are provided.
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