So you’ve installed that shiny Ubuntu distro onto your PlayStation 3 and finagled a couple of cool applications to boot. And yet, there’s still a lot of empty real estate on that newly formatted hard drive.
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The Problem With X
Xwindows is the GUI that pretty much every free and non-free unix and unix-like OS uses. Xwindows is a paradox, in that in some ways it is advanced, especially considering it’s age.
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Slackware 12.1
Slackware has been a Linux distro I’ve never really been interested in. It is the oldest distro still going and really did show it in my opinion. It was difficult to use, unfriendly and fairly slow.
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sK1: Open Source Vector Graphics Editor Similar to CorelDRAW or Adobe Illustrator
sK1 is an open source vector graphics editor similar to CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator, or Freehand which just had it's first public release a few days ago.
First of all sK1 is oriented for "prepress ready" PostScript & PDF output.
The major sK1 features:
* CMYK colorspace support
* CMYK support in Postscript
* Cairo-based engine
* Color managment
Get to know Linux: Enlightenment E17
My favorite Linux desktop is the Enlightenment desktop. I have been using this desktop for quite some time and have never felt it lacked for anything in the desktop space.
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Kuki 3.0 Pre Release 1.7 for the AA1
I’ve been trying a lot of distros on the aa1 recently, I’ve tried all Ubuntus from 8.04 till 9.04, sidux, slitaz, madbox, and now Kuki Linux.
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A Reviewer Gets a Closer Look at the EVO Console
What's the saying? "The road to ruin is paved with good intentions?" Though I am not a fellow Alabamian like reporter Dan Whisenhunt, I had my own reasons for hoping the Envizions EVO Linux Game Console would at least -- well, get a better review than it did.
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Mandriva 2009.1: Network Applet
Mandriva 2009.1 offers a number of administrative tools that work well and are easy to use. One of those features is the network Applet.
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PackageKit in Fedora 11
When PackageKit was first introduced to the masses, it was meant to smooth out the experience of someone using the free desktop. In Fedora 11, fonts and some content types are also automatically handled for users.
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Finally, A Creative X-Fi Driver Going Into ALSA
Support for the Creative X-Fi sound cards on Linux has been a mess to say the least. The good news is that as of today there is a merge-able version of the Creative X-Fi driver for ALSA.
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Distro Review: Ubuntu 9.04
The last time I looked at Ubuntu in depth was actually 12 months ago with the 8.04 release. I found it to be a solid enough but somehow lacking a little in ambition. Would Jaunty jump forward with new features? I decided to find out…
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5 Great GTD Applications for Linux
There is a popular joke about Linux users that we are so busy tweaking our system to do things for fun that we don’t have time to do important stuff. Hopefully you will find some of these apps helpful.
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Out goes Xandros… in comes Ubuntu
Sooooo, a few weeks ago I decided to ditch my Xandros installation on the Asus EeePC 900a.
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Retro Gaming via the Internet
About 20 years ago (shudder) I would often spend a Sunday afternoon playing Spectrum and Amstrad games with my good mate Keith. There was a small selection of games we'd play pretty often including some of the Julian Gollup games - Rebelstar, Rebelstar Raiders, Laser Squad and so on.
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Access Your Apps and Docs Remotely with FreeNX
The ability to control your primary machine remotely can come in rather handy when you need to access your documents and applications using your netbook or laptop. While you might be tempted to go with a solution based on the popular VNC protocol, you should keep in mind that it has two serious limitations: it's both insecure and slow.
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