If you have followed my blog for any extended amount of time, you know that I have tried and used an extensive number of Linux distributions. I have finally found my home distro with openSUSE, and that is where I will stay for the foreseeable future. I do, and will still keep up with what’s going on in the entire Linux community, since it interests me immensely.
Read more »Is Ubuntu really easier? Is Pepsi really better than Coke?
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Find Quality Apps that Run on Linux
Linux App Finder's mission is to catalog useful GNU/Linux programs and provide a great resource to discover new apps.
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How to install Pidgin 2.4.3 in Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) From source code
How to install Pidgin 2.4.3 in Linux Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn by compiling its source code(to compile Pidgin source code)
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Ubuntu SD Cards With The Eee PC
The Ubuntu Eee project has just announced they will be selling SD cards pre-loaded with the latest version of Eee Ubuntu. This SD card can then be inserted into the Eee PC and you can run Eee Ubuntu right off of it. This is a great idea, but it would be even better if the cards were sold in stores along with the Eee PC.
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Wine 1.1.1 Released
The Wine development release 1.1.1 is now available.
What's new in this release : Fixes for Photoshop CS3 and Office 2007 installers. More progress on gdiplus. Support for Unicode files in regedit. Improved video playback. Many Richedit fixes and improvements Various bug fixes
Read more »IEEE Papers Using LaTeX and BibTeX - I
"If you’re doing research work (in school or otherwise), or if you’re seriously considering a career in the field of research or maybe the academe, then you probably know by now how important it is to publish your work [...] If you plan to write a technical paper for a conference or even better, for a journal, then I definitely recommend that you invest some of your time to learn LaTeX..." --
Read more »WINE Whine WINE
I was recently surprised to discover that many people are not familiar with WINE, what it does, or how easy it can be to make it do it. That, coupled with the recent post-beta, stable release of WINE itself, pushed me to help get the word out.
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Linux examined: OpenSUSE 11.0
This latest edition has some updates and improvements, but is not for the faint-of-heart
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KDE 4.2 Kopete mockups
One of the things I want to do for KDE 4.2 is a “Contacts” plasmoid: A Kopete-centered plasmoid that displays your contacts status and allows for a quick chat initiation. So far I have two mockups which I’d like feedback on — please comment!
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Mac OS X - Highly Customized Linux
Few players in the Linux arena creates their Linux distro to look like Mac OS X or Windows... Here I'm going to list some distro which looks like Mac OS.
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Brasero vs K3B: CD Burning in Linux
In this site I have not hidden my preference for KDE over GNOME, and also my preference for K3B. However, for K3B my comparison was mainly Nero or GNOME’s older default burning application. With Ubuntu 8 point whatever, and thus also in Linux Mint 5 (which I am currently using in one of my computers) came the Ubuntu CD Burner Brasero. And I was keen to see how it worked.
Read more »Two handy MediaWiki extensions
Here are two powerful tools for your MediaWiki installation. One helps you populate your wiki quickly from data in a spreadsheet. The other creates PDF ebooks, complete with tables of contents and page numbers, with a single click from your wiki.
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10 Best KDE Applications - Reloaded
This article is a continuation of the 10 Best KDE Applications Not Included in KDE which I wrote a while ago. In the first article I reviewed Amarok, KTorrent, K3b, Gwenview, KVirc, Kaffeine, KDevelop, Kid3, DigiKam and Yakuake. In this second part I'll add 10 more applications which I consider to be full-featured and to have a high quality.
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My 10 Favourite Free/Open Source Applications
Your own must-have applications will obviously depend on what you use your computers for. My own everyday needs are quite modest – my PC is used for web surfing, emailing, listening to music, watching the occasional movie, writing, photoediting and printing and, last but by no means least, testing Linux distributions...Anyway, here's my list of must-have applications
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gOS Space: OSX-like operating system without the Apple
I’ve been a fan of gOS for a while now. I’ve been running their Rocket release for about a year. It’s based on Ubuntu and has the benefit of pre-installed Enlightenment. It’s solid, runs well on lower-end hardware, and…it’s Enlightenment (what more do you want?)
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