People have always made music. Once human beings had computers available, software became just like music. People create software the same way they create music. They really do. You don't do it because you get paid for it. You do it because it's fun. Samba is the equivalent of a garage band that made it big.
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Debian Lenny Mini Review
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Having always been a Debian person at heart, I eagerly awaited the latest Debian version to hit the mirrors. When Lenny was released, I downloaded the DVD ISO through torrent and installed it.
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Dell Netbooks: Windows XP Beats Ubuntu on Value
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Dell’s Inspiron Mini 9 Netbooks running Windows XP and Ubuntu are on sale. But US newspaper advertisements from Dell and Best Buy show Dell’s Windows XP netbooks to be a far better bargain than Dell netbooks with Ubuntu Linux. Here are the details.
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KDE 4.2: Beyond the first impressions
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I did find some quite irritating issues yesterday, when I installed KDE 4.2 the first time. People have pointed out that KDE can hardly be blamed for the difference in looks between GTK and Qt applications, which is true, but the result is still ugly.
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Review: openSuse 11.1
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After reading through LXF, I tried loading openSuse 11.1 with the failsafe settings and it worked in VirtualBox. So I’ll now be reviewing openSuse 11.1.
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"Linux 101 Hacks" Available as Free Download
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Ramesh Natarajan is giving out free copies of his ebook, Linux 101 Hacks. Though it targets a more experienced audience than the Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference download Sam covered last month, it looks like a handy reference.
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The browser war is back – expect user casualties
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The browser war between Microsoft and Mozilla came to an end in 2001 when Microsoft released Internet Explorer 6. Now it appears that the browser war is back, but this time it is different. There are five major browsers.
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Desktop Cost: Linux vs. Windows
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How much did your computer cost? $500? $1,000? $2,000? How much has it cost you since you bought it? The price of a computer is not a one-time expense — it is rather, an ongoing one. How much you pay for your computer over a year's time, or the entire lifetime of the computer, depends greatly on your choice of operating system.
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Interview: Ubuntu and Wine Expert Scott Ritchie
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As most Linux followers know, Wine allows you to run many Windows programs on Linux. But how does Wine work with Ubuntu and where is it heading? Our quest for answers led us to Ubuntu community developer and Wine expert Scott Ritchie, known by many peers as YokoZar. Here's our interview with him.
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17 Awesome Linux Applicaitons to Improve your Productivity
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I always appreciate any useful application I can find for Linux that can help its users enjoy and have the same comfort they have in Windows. I earlier wrote about of the most useful system application for Linux along with a few more post you might find helpful like
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First Look: Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope
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With the April 23 release date getting ever closer, I decided to test Alpha 4 of Ubuntu 9.04 - code-named Jaunty Jackalope - to get a feel for the forthcoming operating system.
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Linux’s Greatest Strength: No One Uses It
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An Ubuntu user published a piece on his blog last week about using .desktop files to deliver malware under Gnome and KDE. He exposes a serious problem that serves to remind over-zealous free-software advocates that Linux, like everything else, has flaws. But in a world where Linux market share remains negligible, do these flaws translate to a decline in the actual (rather than theoretical) sec
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You don’t need to have played with a digital SLR camera for long to run into the continuing frustration that is RAW images. RAW images offer very high image quality without the nasty compression artifacts of often found in consumer cameras using the JPEG format.
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PCLinuxOS 2009: My Experience
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Okay, technically, the 2009 iso isn’t out yet. But the repositories have been unfrozen, and the “Big Update” was pushed to all the mirrors. I updated a couple of weeks ago. So how is it going?
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Moonshine brings Windows Media to Linux
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When I first looked at Moonlight, Novell’s open-source version of Microsoft’s Sliverlight, I liked it, but I didn’t really see much of a point to it. Silverlight, Microsoft’s latest answer to Adobe Flash, isn’t used in many sites. What I liked the most about Silverlight was that it provided a fully legal way to access WMV and WMA (Windows Media Video and Audio) from Linux.
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