Free office solution OpenOffice.org is still in the best of shape, based on reactions from project members to Novell developer Michael Meeks's recent pessimistic view. The Linux Foundation is one of many who are concerned. All want one thing: more.
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Making KDE's Konqueror Obey You
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I am a proud KDE-lover, and I think Konqueror is the best file manager there is. It's a pretty good Web browser too, though it tends to gag on certain script-heavy, poorly-scripted sites. But that seems a rational response--spit 'em out and move on.
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Ubuntu's Ubiquity Gains Home Encryption Support
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Ubuntu 7.10 had introduced support for install-time encryption to provide a fully encrypted LVM. However, this feature was only available through Ubuntu's alternate CD installer and not Ubiquity, Ubuntu's popular LiveCD installer. We had hoped the disk encryption support would be added in Ubuntu 8.04 and then later Ubuntu 8.10, but that never occurred.
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The Gatekeepers of our technology
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The Linux Community is having an on-again off-again love affair with Dell. It's been a rocky affair since Dell decided it would bump the positive side of their ledger by offering the Linux Operating System on their products. There have been some embarrassing public displays of affection and there have been equally public spats, with a few pots and pans thrown...
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How to lock your screen from the command line
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This could be very useful to you if you’re working in the terminal and need to step away for a moment. You can achieve a locked screen, just like when you do it the graphical way, with this command entered at the command line, or cli…
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The Bizarre Cathedral - 37
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Latest from the Bizarre Cathedral comic strip by merc and crimperman
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Xara LX and the leading, bleeding edge of free software graphics
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The latest vector graphics package for GNU/Linux is a Linux port of a proprietary Windows application called "Xara Xtreme", which is in the process of being converted to a GPL license... However, this is an opportunity to get a sneak preview of what's coming.
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Ubuntu 9.04's blazing boot times
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An alpha version of Ubuntu's coming April release is now available and the results are spectacular. Ubuntu 9.04 looks set to live up to its Jaunty Jackalope monicker with the ext4 filesystem already receiving great verdicts.
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The best Ubuntu video editors
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A list of the best 8 Ubuntu video editors (install instructions for Ubuntu, they work on any linux distro)
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ClipGrab - Download videos from online video sharing websites
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ClipGrab is a free GUI Video downloader from the famous online video sharing websites like youtube, veoh, Dailymotion, MyVideo and many other. ClipGrab is very simple (basically just one window to work on). Clipgrab downloads the file and saves it by default to FLV (Flash Video) however can convert the downloaded video on the fly to Windows Video (WMV), MPEG4, MP3 (Audio), OGG Vorbis (Audio).
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In Over My Head: Blinux
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For the past couple of years, I’ve been doing what little I could to assist a friend of mine going blind from Macular Degeneration... The experience has caused me to explore Linux for the Blind, or “Blinux.”
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Linux Shell Editing Shortcuts
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If you want to learn to use the Linux command line, you're going to have to do a lot of typing, and make sure you type everything accurately ... right? No! One of the secrets power shell users know is that they don't really have to be great typists. They take advantage of the typing shortcuts the shell offers.
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Plumi 0.2.3 released
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"Following the release of Plumi 0.2.2 last month, EngageMedia’s tech team is pleased to announce the release of a new version of its video-sharing application, Plumi 0.2.3 [...] Further down the track we will be exploring Firefogg integration (ogg transcoding / publishing via Firefox to Plumi), BitTorrent and many other exciting improvem
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Ubuntu Faster on My Internet Than Windows XP
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This isn't a rigorous benchmarked lab test yet, but I found something bizarre this morning... My Ubuntu machine returned a rating from the Bandwidth.com test of 22-25mbps over several tests. That's darn fast today, faster than normal. Then I did the same test from a Windows XP PC and got results from 12-14mbps.
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Step-By-Step: Migrating Your Desktop From Windows To Linux
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Once you've assessed your needs and have everyone in your business on board for your migration, it's time to get down to brass tacks. Fortunately, the Ubuntu Linux installation process makes it extremely easy, even for non-technical users, as you'll discover in the following
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