Presto is a fast boot Linux operating system from Xandros. It is intended to be a complement to Microsoft Windows rather than a replacement. What makes Presto a bit of an oddball in the Linux world is than it can only be installed in Windows XP or Vista.
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Two weeks, still loving Fluxbox
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Two and a half weeks ago, I got a netbook and promptly installed Ubuntu, followed by Fluxbox. And after two weeks of almost continued use, I like it even more than when I decided to use it. Some of the points I really enjoy:
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I like Firefox but it’s not as fast as it used to be. This is a comprehensive, safe guide to optimizing Firefox 3.5 for speedy browsing.
Read more »Enhancing contextual menus on Ubuntu Desktop
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Ubuntu desktop uses Gnome and its default desktop. You can add several interesting features to your contextual menus. ( You get a contextual menu when you right click on an object.). Let us see how we can add a simple script to the contextual menu.
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Google Chrome For Linux Adds Plug-ins Support [Ubuntu Downloads & How To Enable Flash]
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If a lack of third-party plug-in support (i.e. Flash) kept you from trying out Chrome on your Linux system, then avoid no longer. The "early developer version" now supports many plug-ins, and they seem to work pretty well. Chromium is the open-source project behind Google Chrome so do not mix them. Read on to find out how to enable Flash for Google Chrome
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Replacing Firefox
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I am a heavy web user. Everything from webmail to banking, if I can do it on-line I will. For years I have used Firefox. Sadly on smaller platforms, its starting to appear in need of a regular appearance at the gym.
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Installing "Sugar on a stick" (Strawberry Release) On A USB Stick
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Sugar is the desktop environment that is used for the "One Laptop per Child" (OLPC) netbooks. It can also be installed on normal computers and even run off of a USB stick (which should have at least 1GB of size). This guide shows how you can install Sugar (the Strawberry release which is based on Fedora 11) on a USB stick.
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Introducing Winesharer - so pre-alpha it doesn't even work
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Winesharer is my attempt to eliminate some of the file management problems inherent with Wine and the *nix filesystem hierarcy.
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Sound on Linux Anti-FUD: Calm, Certainty and Confidence
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Over the years I’ve listened to several opinions expressing doubt over the Linux sound stack. There are lots of ill informed comments out there concerning various things sound related, both positive and negative, but more often than not commentators miss out very important aspects of a modern, multi-user, desktop sound stack.
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Alta rural económica para propietarios de alojamientos rurales
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TriRural, la marca que agrupa a los portales rurales www.TodoCasaRural.com, www.SoloTurismoRural.com y www.1000CasasRurales.com vuelve a lanzar este mes su oferta multirural para propietarios españoles.
La oferta, que consiguió atraer a 200 alojamientos rurales el mes pasado, consiste en un alta anual en los 3 portales rurales anteriormente mencionados al precio de 60 euros + IVA anuales.
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GCstar 1.5.0beta1 – Manage your collection
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openbytes.wordpress: Lets face it, the days of shelves bowing under the weight of DVD cases & CD’s is coming to an end. Whilst GCstar won’t put all your CD’s into their correct boxes, nor will it put them in an alphabetical order on your shelves, what it will do is allow you to document your entire collection on a database.
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kde to be default on opensuse?
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Recently, the discussion whether to make KDE the default desktop on openSUSE has been raised. The situation bears some historical meaning, and has also brought up some misconceptions. Let me try to give a bit of an overview of it, and put things into context.
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A first look at KDE 4.3
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By KDE 4.2, I finally saw a new version of KDE I could like. Now, with the "so close to release you can almost taste it," KDE 4.3 is the first of the KDE 4 family that I can wholeheartedly approve of.
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gOS 3.1 Google Gadgets - Linux with style
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This is the second time I've taken gOS for a spin. I have reviewed the distro approx. a year and a half years ago in an article aptly named gOS Linux - a very good OS. Indeed, gOS was a great treat. The current version ups the ante with new delights.
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Install KDE 4.3 In Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04
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Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala simply have do an apt-get upgrade to update to the latest KDE 4.3 (which was released yesterday) but (K)Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope users have to add the Kubuntu PPA backports so they can install the latest KDE 4.3.
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