Recent “upgrades” to Rhythmbox and Banshee which left either 1) much to be desired or 2) the application unusable made me take a look at Songbird.
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Top Current Open Source Games
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Open source games have historically struggled to achieve the user following of proprietary gaming software, but over the past few years open source games have taken a turn for the better in terms of usability, playability, and generally the ability to grasp public interest. Here is an in-depth list of some of the most outstanding open source games currently released and in active development.
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KDE 4.2.3 released
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The popular Linux Desktop Environment KDE is now upgraded to version 4.2.3. This release contains several bugfixes & enhancements. The most user-visible improvements are: Online IMAP filtering in KMail has been fixed, KMail's system tray.
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Restoring an Overwritten GRUB Boot Loader
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Unfortunately, maintaining a multi-boot configuration ... can be a pain, especially if you later install an operating system which overwrites the GRUB boot loader you had in place (such as a version of Windows). If your boot loader is overwritten, you could be left with no choice but to boot the most recently installed OS.
Read more »Open Source iTunes Look-Alike
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aTunes is a full-featured audio player and manager, developed in Java programming language, so it can be executed on different platforms: Windows, Linux and Unix-like systems...
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Ubuntu 9.04 UNR on Asus Eee PC
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Last night I downloaded the Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix (UNR) and installed it on my Asus Eee PC 901. Here’s how it all went.
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Clean Your Linux Desktop Using Compiz and a Lightweight File Manager
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This little tutorial will explain how to maintain a clean desktop and at the same time have quick access to your data. It makes use of Compiz widget layer and a lightweight File Manager by creating a folder to store all your Desktop icons/files and make it into a widget where you can access it easily.
Read more »Get to know Linux: Fluxbox
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If you’ve been around Linux long enough, then you most likely will have heard about Fluxbox. Fluxbox is a desktop that was based on Blackbox 0.61.1, which makes it extremely light weight, fast, and reliable. Fluxbox is also very minimalistic.
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starting perl GUI programming
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I need to extend my programming knowledge, I know as a system administrator, I should automate everything I need to do more than twice and therefore I need more programming skills. I've been thinking of learning shell programming, as it is the most ubiquitous in Linux systems. I already know some shell programming and for most of the simple tasks I can easily write a small shell script.
Read more »KDE 4.2.3 Released
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The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of "Cuagmire", (a.k.a KDE 4.2.3), another bugfix and maintenance update for the latest generation 4.2.
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T-Mobile serves up some Android cupcake
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Google Android 1.5 is nearly here, but what can G1 users expect to get when T-Mobile starts rolling out the over-the-air upgrades next week?
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Adeona: Open Source Lojack For Laptops
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Adeona has been widely touted (194K hits at google) as the Open Source solution to protecting your laptop or netbook.
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Ubuntu: Two Ways to Keep A Clean Desktop Without Affecting Your Efficiency
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I love placing all the shortcut icons and files on my Desktop. On the other hand, I also have a passion for clean desktop. Apparently, having a lot of desktop shortcuts and a clean beautiful desktop together is not quite possible. I need a solution.
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Hedgewars - The Worms redesigned
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There is a Unix Worms-like game, called Hedgewars, developed by a Russian programmer Andrey Korotaev. It might be hard to believe, but hedges have been there since 2004, so don’t waste any time and proceed with the review. It’s free and open source project, GPL v.2 based, and more importantly - it’s available for Linux, Windows, and MacOS supporting both - 32, and 64 bit architecture.
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A weekend with Ubuntu 9.04 and Kubuntu 9.04
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With the release of Ubuntu 9.04 I figured it was time for me to download the ISO and see what this new version of Ubuntu brings to the table. While I was at it I also decided to get the Kubuntu.
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