KDE, Gnome, OpenOffice.org and Firefox - all great software, and all powerful proponents of the free software software movement. But there are thousands of other applications out there that are worth trying.
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Novell GroupWise on Ubuntu?
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I stumbled onto this blog post earlier today - from dkpw's Wikedfire - explaining how you can potentially install Novell's GroupWise on Ubuntu. Novell doesn't support GroupWise on Ubuntu. So, do dkpw's step-by-step directions work?
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How to get ath5k working on Jaunty with Compat-wireless and a self-compiled kernel
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I used to have some trouble while setting up my Atheros PCI card on Ubuntu Linux 9.04. It worked natively on Ubuntu 8.04, where it was detected as ath0. I upgraded from 8.04 to 8.10 whereby I noticed my wireless PCI card didn't work natively anymore. Someone suggested me to upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04 Jaunty, and I did that immediately.
Read more »One week slip of Fedora 11 Release
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In a meeting today between Release Engineering, QA, and various team leads, we decided to enact a 7 day slip of the Fedora 11 release date.
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Bordeaux Group and MyLinuxSupport signs first reseller agreements
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MyLinuxSupport Inc., signs first reseller agreements with the Bordeaux Software Group and Wine Reviews to resell pre-paid open source support cards. The pre-paid support cards will help reduce costs, complexity and improve overall productivity for businesses and individuals.
Read more »Integrate Google Gadgets with Plasma in Kubuntu 9.04 Jaunty
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With the release of KDE 4.2, Google Gadgets became fully integrated into Plasma. You can add them to your desktop with a few clicks of your mouse.
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Install VLC 1.0 RC in Ubuntu (from a PPA Repository)
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VLC 1.0 release candidate was released about a week ago and it's not yet in the Ubuntu repositories, but if you want to use it in Ubuntu, you can add the following repository:
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Replace Compiz Fusion with Metacity to Run AWN, Screenlets and Visual Effects
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Why you would want to do that? Because it uses less resources and it may run better for old or incompatible video cards (including Intel). You don’t even need accelerated graphics to run Metacity with compositing and it even works well inside VirtualBox.
Read more »Musix To My Ears
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Musix is a Live CD/DVD Linux operating system that is based on the popular Debian distro. Musix focuses on the x86 processor and contains many audio production, graphic design, and general applications.
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Hands-on: Intel brings rich UI to Moblin Linux platform
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Intel has unveiled the next-generation user interface of Moblin, the company's open source Linux platform for netbooks and mobile Internet devices. We tested it on real netbook hardware so that we could give you a detailed hands-on look.
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The Merits of Control-Alt-Backspace, or Geeks vs. Reality
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For the release of Jaunty, the Ubuntu developers decided to disable the control-alt-backspace shortcut for killing the graphical X session. This move prompted a lot of complaining from advanced users. Although I personally sympathize with these people, their grievances reflect the all-too-common tendency of a minority of geeky users to rise up in arms about trivial features, impeding the progr
Read more »Big Strides for Free Software in the Browsers War
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A roundup of browsers news with focus on Internet Explorer's demise
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8 Essential OpenOffice Extensions
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OpenOffice is already a complete desktop office suite that is at par in terms of features with the proprietary Microsoft Office.
Read more »Review: gNewSense Version 2.2
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The gNewSense project today announced version 2.2 of its free GNU/Linux distribution. This is the second point update to the release codenamed 'deltah'. We're especially excited to see that, as a result of the cooperation between SGI and the FSF to relicense the core 3D library code as free software, today's release re-introduces GLX.
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Texmaker 1.9 released
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"The version 1.9 of the free LaTeX IDE Texmaker has been released today and comes with the following changes: ..."
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