Some of the community themes and icons that will be present in the upcoming Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) operating system.
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Go-oo - OpenOffice with a twist
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All your friends and business partners run Microsoft Office and you cannot afford to have any blunders when reading their documents. Likewise, you don't want to have your presentations all garbled up when you import them from Impress to PowerPoint. What about Office 2007? What about macros in your Excel sheets?
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Create a Web-based Photo Gallery in a Jiffy with GMPhoto
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Looking for a quick and easy way to set up a Web-based photo gallery? Consider GMPhoto. This application lets you create a snazzy Web-based photo album literally in a matter of minutes.
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A Very Early Look At OpenSolaris 2010.02
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OpenSolaris 2009.06 was released earlier this year, but unlike in years past and contrary to their original six month release cycle, there will not be another OpenSolaris distribution release in 2009. Instead, the next slated release is OpenSolaris 2010.02. We have screenshots.
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Upgrade Alsa (1.0.21) on Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04
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Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 is coming by default with the version 1.0.18rc3 of Alsa so I decided to upgrade to the last version wich is 1.0.21.
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MoonOS 3.0
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MoonOS is an Ubuntu based distribution that uses the Enlightenment (or LXDE) desktop environment, rather than GNOME’s standard. It also has some custom artwork. It caught my eye this week due to a new release, and the fact that I wanted to try out the Enlightenment desktop.
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gOS - The Cloud Distro
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Over the past years I have helped a number of people switch to Linux. One of these folks is a good friend of mine who wanted a copy of gOS.
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15 Relatively Unknown Linux Apps
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Most people go for the big apps when switching to Linux, and for good reason: they are easy to find, usually very polished, often updated, and there's a lot of online documentation for them. What if you're not looking for the most popular, but instead the best app for you?
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Cross-Platform Google Docs Batch Uploader Lets You Upload All The Files In a Folder To Google Docs
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If you want to upload a lot of documents to Google Docs, it's difficult to upload them one by one. You can send the documents by email, but this option is not very reliable and not all the formats are supported.
Read more »Quick Previews In Gnome & Ubuntu With Globus
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Gloobus is an extension of Gnome designed to enable a full screen preview of any kind of file. Globus currently supports the following files: TXT , PDF, JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, PSD, MP3, OGG, MPG, WMV, XCF. Finally I can preview PSD and XCF files :D. Using Globus is very simple. Just select the file in Nautilus and hit the key.
Read more »10 of the Best Free Linux IRC Clients
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Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a type of real-time Internet text messaging (chat) or synchronous conferencing. IRC was born during summer 1988 when Jarkko Oikarinen wrote the first IRC client and server when he was working in the Department of Information Processing Science at the University of Oulu, Finland. This system enables millions of people around the world to communicate in real time.
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Ubuntu Gaming made easy with PlayDeb
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Playdeb is a gaming repository for Ubuntu - aimed to provide titles already available on getdeb.net in an easier to install and update format. This article show you how to install Game from playdeb.net on ubuntu 9.04 jaunty jackalope.
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Five Best Virtual-Desktop Managers
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Long before multiple monitors were popular (or financially feasible), there were virtual desktops—applications that allow you to swap your entire workspace with another for easy compartmentalization of your work. Here's a look at five of the most popular virtual-desktop managers.
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Create a mobile Ubuntu repository with APTonCD
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How many times have you installed Linux only to have something happen which required a re-install? Or you get a machine up and running the way you want it and then you want to re-create the system on another machine? In either of these situations, the last thing you want to do is to have to remember all of the applications you installed and then spend the time installing them all again.
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Karmic’s Notification Changes
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Ubuntu’s notification system will see several improvements and changes for it’s inclusion in Karmic. The most notable and obvious of these is will be its appearance. The large rectangular pop-up’s of Jaunty are replaced with a sleeker smaller bubble.
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