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Read more »Ubuntu 9.10 Off To A Great Performance Start
The first alpha release for Ubuntu 9.10 was made available yesterday and while it does net yet integrate Plymouth or any other new features, it has picked up a few new packages. Most prominently, Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 1 features the Linux 2.6.30 kernel and GCC 4.4.
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Security - It's Not Just For Geeks
Ars Technica has an excellent series of articles about user security and why it's important for you to take security seriously, and why it's not just one of those "silly little things" that you leave for the geeks to worry about.
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Ubuntu 9.04 is as slick as Windows 7 and Mac OS X
Just like Microsoft has taken the blowtorch to Vista to produce the lightning- quick Windows 7 ... Ubuntu has picked up its own game
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Indamixx Linux Netbook Aims to Be Your Open Source Recording Studio
As noted on the Musician's Friend site, Linux fans with musical abilities may want to take note of the new $499 Indamixx Netbook MKII. It runs a Linux multimedia operating system called Transmission 3.0 that has a set of applications for editing, mixing, and recording music.
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Linux Distros That Don’t Suck
I have had many people email me about the best distro out there. The only answer I have for them is “depends on what you want to do”.
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aTunes: Amazing Cross-Platform Audio Player and Manager
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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How I became an Openbox fanatic
Once I had a taste of that Openbox magic... I couldn't get away. After hearing about Mandriva's 2009.1 release, which was built with notebooks particularly in mind (as well as with a host of other improvements, naturally), I decided to give it a whirl.
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Top 5 Firefox Security Add-ons
Ensuring browsing safety is one of the major concerns of equally users and browser developers these days. And it’s understandable because let’s face it - a lot of people practically live online. We buy and sell stuff online, we do online banking, we socialize online, and we even get online degrees. With all that going on it’s a must to protect yourself.
Read more »Linux SopCast Player
SopCast Player is designed to be an easy to use Linux GUI front-end for the p2p streaming technology developed by SopCast. SopCast Player features an integrated video player, a channel guide, and bookmarks. Once SopCast Player is installed it simply "just works" with no required configuration.
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Thunderbird visual refresh on Linux
Been working on the appearance of Thunderbird for the last two months now and as things are starting to land in the Nightly builds, things are indeed starting to look quite nice. As always, Lapo have been of great help in the icon department.
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How To Install Arch Linux Via FTP
As you delve into Linux, you will find it is TOTALLY flexible and customizable. You can make it anything you want. Well, almost. This total flexibility is the greatest thing about Linux, and it's the worst thing about Linux. When you get to the point that you understand Linux, that flexibility is great. For the Linux newbie however, the myriad of choices and options are overwhelming.
Read more »Intro to wmii
Looking to conserve desktop real estate? Looking to increase your productivity? Want a light weight window manager that doesn't bog your system down? Try wmii, a powerful tiling window manager that delivers.
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Create custom actions with the Thunar file manager
The Thunar file managers is one of the best graphical file manager available for the Linux operating system. Thunar is the file manage of choice for the Xfce 4 desktop as well as Enlightenment E17.
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Prism 1.0 Beta Launches With New Website
Eighteen months ago, we introduced an experimental project called Prism with the goal to “to bridge the divide in the user experience between web applications and desktop apps and to explore new usability models as the line between traditional desktop and new web applications continues to blur.”
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