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Three flavours of Open Source distros reviewed

http://www.theinquirer.net

Some of you seem to be a bit interested in the new open sauce flavours floating around. One more go at the sauces, and we will see if you like it. Or not. You can flame, or ask for more. Here goes.

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Another Linux user. Our ranks grow.

http://planet-geek.com

About 6 months ago I was having a conversation with my roommate Beth, talking about her aging Dell laptop. She was considering getting a desktop machine to use as her primary workhorse for her up and coming graduate student immersion.

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Seeking a little Linux? Try Blackbox

http://www.napavalleyregister.com

My son, who is just beginning college with his new (used) eBay laptop computer, was trawling the net the other day when he came across a nifty little software tool called Blackbox.

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Compiz Fusion Community News Edition 13 for August 28, 2007 : Wikup!

http://smspillaz.wordpress.com

Summary: Hello and thanks for reading! We’ve made some exiting progress this week in bugs, features and the website. Just to get this out of the way, it is now safe to upgrade Compiz Fusion

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Finding RSS Subscriber Counts Through Apache Logs

http://www.howtogeek.com

If you've declined to use a service like FeedBurner to handle your RSS feeds, you might wonder how many subscribers you actually have.

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Evolution beta is a powerful personal data mining tool

http://www.linux.com

Roelof Temmingh has written a cool new application which provides individuals with the ability to do data mining of publicly available information. It's a cross-platform Java application called Evolution, currently in its second beta, and available as a free download.

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New Miro Guide Feature: People Who Subscribe…

http://www.getmiro.com

"Many channels now include recommendations based on other people’s subscription habits..."

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DIY Linux live CD -- the really easy way!

http://www.desktoplinux.com

We all know about downloading a Linux live CD and burning it to a disc or running it in Virtualware - but what about building your own unique, customised live CD on the Web and then downloading and burning it? Cool! Well, follow the links in this story and allow Nimblex to do all the hard work for you.

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Created by gaswold 18 years 20 weeks ago
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Using Thunderbird as a context management tool

http://nothickmanuals.info

While an email client like Thunderbird doesn't offer any advanced tools for managing files, email's sheer convenience and ease of use are rather compelling reasons for sticking with the proven tool. In fact, an email client makes an excellent context management system, which can help you to keep tabs on who said what and when about a particular document.

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Gnash 0.8.1 released

http://www.gnashdev.org

Rob Savoye wrote:

"The forth alpha release of Gnash has just been made at version
0.8.1. Gnash is a GPL'd Flash movie player and browser plugin for

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How-To: PCLinuxOS 2007 and MythTV

http://linux-blog.org

For those of you who always thought PCLinuxOS and MythTV would go together...you’re quite right, they do fit well together...though there are a few bumps on the road. Hopefully, this how-to will help you along the way.

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Using PCLinux2007: A good-bad report

http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com

This is a brief report on my usage-experience with PCLinux2007 (or PCLOS for short). It’s just an op-ed piece, and some of the comments would reflect my ignorance rather than the ability of the operating system. However, considering I am still a linux beginner, a post like this documents the kind of positive experiences and challenges a user can face once he/she is actually using PCLOS.

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This is Vector. This is Vector on Fluxbox.

http://www.insidesocal.com

Fluxbox seems like an afterthought in most distros. You can add it, sure, but it doesn't look or function that great without some work. On one of my Debian installs, Fluxbox is excellent, on the other not so much. Slackware has a nice Fluxbox setup as well.

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iplist - a list based packet handler

http://iplist.sourceforge.net

iplist is a list based packet handler which uses the netfilter netlink-queue library (kernel 2.6.14 or later). It filters by IP-address and is optimized for thousands of IP-address ranges.

Like Peerguardian for Windows and Moblock for Linux, ipList loads blocklists and blocks spies and adware sites from your system.

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Created by maczimus 18 years 20 weeks ago
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Mozilla To Build Social Networking Into Firefox: Bad News For Flock

http://www.techcrunch.com

"Mozilla has released details on The Coop, a new product that will incorporate social networking features directly into the Firefox browser. This is not good news for the privately-backed social browser Flock (also built on Mozilla), which is yet to release a 1.0 version of its browser.

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