If baseball is what gets you cooking on gas, prepare to say goodbye to your family, become a recluse, and thrive on a world of management decisions and statistics: Out of the Park 9 is available on Linux.
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System76 Serval Professional Notebook
Finding a laptop that can run Linux is no longer much of a challenge. In this review we are looking at the System76 Serval Professional notebook.
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Simple guide to Sound Solutions for Hardy,Intrepid and Jaunty Jackalope Users
If you have just upgraded to or installed Hardy or Intrepid or Jaunty and you have some sound somewhere, but not everywhere for everything, this is a fast way to get all the missing stuff you need and give you some tools to figure out what is going on.
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Man oh Man oh Mono
A few weeks ago I posted how I was considering a new look at Mono and .net technology. I mean I have heard the claims by the other side about patent FUD. So cast aside litigation fears for using .net technology, after all it is an open standard right?
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First Look: Zenwalk Linux 6.0
After pushing our trusty computer to its limits, we thought it would be nice to introduce our PC to the Zen meditation techniques. And though in the end Zenwalk Linux 6.0 didn't help our test machine discover its Buddha-nature within, the experience was very pleasant and indeed relaxing.
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Firefox 3.1 beta 3 "done," Firefox 3.5 beta 4 due April 14
Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 is done and beta 4 is slated to be released on April 14. That’s the latest from the Mozilla Firefox team, which held its weekly meeting on Tuesday.
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Photoshop and GIMP Performance Shootout
Everyone takes digital photographs. The explosion of digital photography, ranging from cell phone cameras to simple point-and-shoot units has created an burst of photographic content. It also means that more and more of us are editing our photos on our PCs.
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Howto Enable system sound in Ubuntu Intrepid
The package libcanberra installed by default in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) is version 0.6 , it seems to be obsolete and causes the system sound to work ineffectively, the following three steps will solve this problem.
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Fun with Puppy puplets
This article describes Puppy Linux, a flexible, fast distribution that's always a favorite among DesktopLinux readers. Author Dave Dibble briefly reviews MiPup2, one of many ready-made Puppy "puplets," and updates us on Puppy's current state and planned new features.
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Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring RC1 ready for tests
The RC1 release of Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring (code name pomerol) is now available. This RC1 version provides some updates on major desktop components of the distribution, including KDE 4.2.1, GNOME 2.25.92, Xfce 4.6, X.org server 1.6, OpenOffice.Org 3.0.1, qt 4.5.0.
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Civilization IV on Linux with Wine 1.1.16
This is a guide for running the Windows version of Civilization IV (no expansion packs) on Linux using Wine. I've written guides on this twice before, but recently I wanted to play and found that my previous instructions were out of date again. Since I last played with Wine 0.9.44, the graphical glitches have been fixed and the game's disk DRM works without a no-CD crack.
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Teeworlds: Online Awesomeness
Okay: what rock have I been living under? Why have I not been introduced to this amazing game before? I'm serious: this game cannot be simply read about; you must download a copy and try it out for yourself. But maybe I'm getting too far ahead of myself.
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Massive updates in slackware-current
Today, Pat Volkerding published a massive amount of package updates to the slackware-current tree. Some of the absolute highlights mentioned in the ChangeLog are indication of a big step forward for Slackware, and most importantly: KDE 3.5.10 is gone, replaced by KDE 4.2.1.
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First encounters of the SimplyMepis kind
It’s funny that my first encounter with SimplyMepis came as sort of an accident. I have been reading Preacherpen’s articles about Mepis and had actually downloaded the new SimplyMepis 8. Since I already had the CD of Mepis 8, I decided to see what it would do on the old laptop.
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After two years, a new PCLinuxOS ships
Two years after its last major release, the interesting PCLinuxOS project has quietly posted a major new release.
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