This is a Howto about getting 2 (or with small modifications more) monitors working on Ubuntu 7.10 as a single big screen.
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Zenwalking Away From Ubuntu
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Ubuntu is one of the most popular distros right now. Yet, it has lost its touch in matter of speed and performance for me and my machine. Now, why would I chose Zenwalk over Ubuntu? Lightweight, XFCE adaptation and friendly community.
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Pidgin Flies Between Linux and Windows
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Pidgin, the Linux- and Windows-compatible, multi-network IM client built on libpurple, the open source library that started life as "gAIM," an AIM client for Linux users.
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PCLinuxOS Gnome links two worlds
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If you're looking for a GNOME desktop for the popular PCLinuxOS (PCLOS), then newly released PCLinuxOS Gnome might be for you.
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Free/Open-source Optical Disk Authoring Software
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Though most Linux distributions have cdrtools (standard open source optical disc authoring software) installed, there are other excellent and easy-to-use CD/DVD burning programs that are available for Linux. Here are some of the finest free/open-source optical disk authoring software
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Open source video editing: what we have now and what we need
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Watching the evolution of open source tools for video editing and manipulation over the last 10 years has been less than a thrilling experience. But are things about to change for the better in the near future? Can even the people most disenchanted with the current state of affairs feel tempted to regain a spark of hope?
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Tools to access Linux Partitions from Windows
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If you dual boot with Windows and Linux, and have data spread across different partitions on Linux and Windows, you should be really in for some issues. It happens sometimes you need to access your files on Linux partitions from Windows, and you realize it isn’t possible easily. Not really, with these tools in hand - it’s very easy for you to access files on your Linux partitions from Windows
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Power Management on Linux, Part 1
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Power management on computers has three parts: selecting devices that are more power-efficient, tuning your systems to run more efficiently, and configuring systems to use less power during periods of inactivity. Servers, desktop machines, and laptops usually need different power management schemes; there isn't a one-size-fits-all.
Read more »GNU IceCat 2.0.0.13-g1
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A new version based on firefox 2.0.0.13 has been released: GNU IceCat 2.0.0.13-g1
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SymphonyOne 2008.1 Released
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"The SymphonyOS Project is pleased to announce the release of SymphonyOne 2008.1, our first major release in almost a year..." -- via http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=04836
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Using Linux to install Windows XP on a Vista Notebook
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Bright and early this morning some guys came into our shop with a newish notebook with a major problem: they'd killed Vista and their rescue partition. They came armed with a legitimate Windows XP Home CD and key but said they weren't able to get XP on the notebook. It may sound odd, but Linux was the solution to getting XP working on the machine.
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Firefox Logo Spied In Deep Space
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One of these is a photograph taken by the Hubble space telescope on December 17, 2002, featuring the variable star V838 Monocerotis. The other is the same photograph overlaid with a familiar logo. Can you tell which is which?
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Basics of iptables
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Alot of people are freaked out by IPTables and find it hard to understand. However, once you get the grasp of it the basics are easy. This document will serve as a basic how-to on using iptables.
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Wicked Cool Emacs: BBDB: Set up BBDB
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"The main address book and contact management module for Emacs is the Insidious Big Brother Database (BBDB), which can be integrated into several mail clients and other modules within Emacs. If you use BBDB to keep track of contact information, you’ll be able to look up phone numbers or add notes to people’s records from your Emacs-based mail.
Read more »Using Gnu/Linux Tools to Recover DVD Video
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Have you ever recorded an important video on a home DVD recorder? Do you use a camcorder that records directly on DVD disks? If you have had a recording fail to finalize properly, rendering it unusable, this post may help you.
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