In this wide world of Linux, there are primarily just two package management systems which reign: RPM and Deb. Which is better?
Read more »15 Cool and Unique GDM Themes
Not long ago, we've featured here some of the most beautiful KDM themes available for all the KDE users out there. So it's only appropriate to give GNOME lovers a little treat by presenting several good looking GDM themes this time around.
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The Three Faces of Fedora 11, Part 3: Xfce
I have to confess that in writing this blog item about Xfce on Fedora 11, I’ve had divine inspiration. I mean, really divine inspiration, as in as high on the divinity food chain as you can get.
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Stealth Checking Xbox 360 Games With abgx360 and Nautilus
If you're like me, you've jumped through a million hoops to get abgx360gui working. But you can only get the command line interface working. No problem, we'll create a script for Nautilus to easily launch abgx360 to check your Xbox 360 games.
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KlamAV: Outstanding KDE front-end for Linux anti-virus
You don’t usually hear that phrase spoken “Linux anti-virus”. But it does exist. One of the more popular Linux anti-virus tools is ClamAV. But to most users (especially new users) ClamAV is a bit challenging to use. That is where KlamAV comes in.
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Valve To Launch Native Linux Game In July?
Late last year we also got some confirmation of a Steam Linux client through some Linux shared libraries that had mistakenly shipped with the Left 4 Dead game client along with some other information we received through the grapevine. Well, now there may be another sign of impending Linux support by Valve Software.
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KDE 4: The Komplete Desktop?
KDE 4 creator Matthias Ettrich, envisaged a Unix desktop with a common look and feel. KDE 4 has been released for over a year now, has it met this goal?
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Stop Ragging on KDE4!
One of the things that's been frustrating me a lot lately is all the negative press about KDE4. And the Gnome fanboys have been having a blast with it. I want to state explicitly here and now, STOP PICKING ON KDE4!!
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Pidgin unable to connect to yahoo
Pidgin is a popular open source client for yahoo messenger and other IM protocols. Yahoo recently updated their client and older versions of pidgin will be unable to login to yahoo. Learn how to do a work around.
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Ubuntu's First Ten Paper Cuts Spotted
Paper cuts are rather trivial usability bugs that are small, but in one way or another could impair the Linux desktop. The first ten of the one hundred paper cuts for Ubuntu 9.10 have now been determined.
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Comparing MEPIS 8 and Ubuntu 9.04
I know I’m not exactly comparing apples with apples, since MEPIS 8 is based on Debian 5.0 and uses KDE 3.5, whilst Ubuntu 9.04 uses GNOME 2.
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Teaching Math with the KDE Interactive Geometry Program
I've written quite a bit about using Linux to help educate people. Kig allows you to use various tools to diagram and demonstrate different mathematical concepts.
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How To Run Windows Apps In Linux
Wine is an open source project that, on the face of it, seems to offer something wondrous: the ability to run Windows applications under Linux (or any other open source OS).
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Make Gimp Panels Auto Hide in Gnome
Normally, Gimp panels are de-attached from the main window, so you practically have 3 windows. And that can be bad for productivity and usability. But you can change that to auto-hiding dock panels. To understand better, watch a video I just recorded:
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Firefox 3.5 RC2: A Quick First Look
Mozilla today released Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 2, which you can download from Mozilla's Web site. Release Candidate 2 is the first version of Firefox 3.5 that average users might want to run, since it's faster and more stable than the beta versions were. Firefox 3.5 boasts a number of significant changes.
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