One of the aspects of migrating to Linux that puts many people off giving it a try is the idea of having to leave behind tried and trusted Windows applications and having to make the switch to something else.
Read more »Adventures with open source apps on Linux - Part 1
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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #92
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #92 for the week May 18th - May 24th, 2008.
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Why I Still Prefer KDE3
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I tested KDE 4.0 in Kubuntu 8.04 Remix edition. I know it's probably not the best distribution to test the relatively new KDE 4.0, but that was what I had available at the moment.
Read more »How to Install Firefox 3 RC1 in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)
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This tutorial will explain howto install Firefox 3 RC1 in Ubuntu Hardy.
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Making the most of your browser screen real estate
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My Asus Eee PC 701 is a brilliant low-cost ultraportable notebook, but it has a really small screen (seven inches diagonally). I needed to find out how to make the best use of the available area when I was using the Firefox Web browser.
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Practical Linux home security
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Most all modern home computer users are switched on to the fact they have to protect their computer from nasties: anti-virus, anti-spam, firewalls have all entered the common vernacular. If you don’t use 'that' operating system from Redmond though does this still apply? And what packages should you use?
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AirRivals on Linux with Wine
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AirRivals is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) with the characteristics of both Third-person shooters and flight simulators, developed by MasangSoft and owned by Yedang.
This post is a how-to, with screenshots, perfermance tweaks and links to the download and support.
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Via Releases Open Source Laptop Design
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Via Technologies released the hardware design for a low-cost laptop with WiMax support under an open-source license in an effort to make customisation easier and shorten design cycles for system makers. The CAD (computer-assisted design) files for the OpenBook reference design can be downloaded for free and made available to anyone under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 license.
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Your Rough Guide to Plasma Desktop Shell in KDE 4
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The essence of Plasma revolves around two basic concepts: Plasmoids and Containments. Plasmoids are Applets, small applications that live on the desktop. Containments are applets as well, they act as container for Plasmoids. That's it. Really. On a default desktop, there are two main elements: the Panel and the desktop itself. Both are containments in the Plasma sense.
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Wikindx facilitates academic writing in a browser
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Anyone interested in writing academic and research papers knows that the process includes researching existing works, planning a research study, collecting and analyzing the results, and writing up the findings. In such papers, reference and citation information is essential.
Read more »How to Lock Down GNOME
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Without viruses and other malware, Linux is typically much harder for the average user to mess up. But if you are setting up a GNOME desktop for someone who seems to do things like delete the window list, or for public use, then you should lock down the desktop. Pessulus is a graphical lockdown editor for GNOME.
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Blogging with Movable Type 4.1
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As the popularity of blogs continues to rise, blogging software platforms continue to evolve. With the recent release of version 4.1, the popular Movable Type application offers improvements that allow bloggers to expand their control over the publishing process.
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Review: Lightweight Linux distributions
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Years ago I already played a bit with Linux (It was Redhat 5.0 on my 386). At that time I thought the operating system wasn't yet ready for the desktop and after a while I reinstalled Windows. Things changed when Ubuntu 5.04 was released. This was the first time I really enjoyed Linux; the most important things worked, it was easy and it was just great!
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Is OpenOffice.org Getting Faster? (benchmark)
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Some complain OpenOffice.org is slow and bloated. With each release there may be dozens of individual performance improvements, but there are also new features, some of which may slow things down. This the natural balance in software development, but in the end, what is the net effect on performance from one version to the next? Is it realistic to expect new features and faster performance?
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Linux is ready for your desktop, and your business
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Linux? That's only for geeks, right? Like its forerunner Unix it conjures up visions of terminal windows and cryptic commands. I've used Windows for decades now, and I switched to the Mac a couple of years ago. I've also watched Linux grow up, but always considered it marginal; not something the average person would use on their desktop or laptop. Until a couple of weeks ago that is.
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