Appearances to the contrary, OpenOffice.org and its various offshoots aren't the only choices available to you in terms of full-scale, cross-platform open source office suites. Although alternatives in this space are few, the KDE Project's KOffice is now coming on quite strong, while GNOME Office and Siag Office keep attracting fans, too.
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Mepis 8.0.10 perfects KDE 3.5.10
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KDE 4.3 is Great but I would suggest all newbies to try the last, KDE 3.5.10 release of Mepis 8 (8.0.10) before it moves into KDE 4 world (cos i don't know what will happen then).
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Puppy Linux 4.3 Has Been Redesigned from the Roots
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Barry Kauler is back at the helm of the Puppy Linux project, and he just released version 4.3 of the popular lightweight Linux distribution. Puppy Linux 4.3 is a massive upgrade from the 4.2 series, with almost all the components updated or replaced.
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Ubuntu releases last 9.10 Alpha
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LINUX DISTRO VENDOR Ubuntu's crew of developers has just released the sixth and expected last alpha version of the next Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala version of its Linux OS.
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An Easy Way To Install Gnome Shell
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Gnome Shell consists of two big parts: the panel and overlay. The panel part is pretty much obvious - system tray, user name, and clock stuff and the activities button which activates the overlay -, and about the "overlay", well, take a look at this screenshot:
Read more »Mandriva Linux 2010 RC1 is now available for tests
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Mandriva Linux 2010 RC1 version is now available on public mirrors. This RC1 version is a rather a bug fix version with some more major updates.
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10 Panel / Dock applications for your Window Managers
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I often get complains from some people, about Openbox or Fluxbox because they lack decent panel / pager applications [ Which is NOT true ], not all the people are satisfied with Openbox's confusing right-click menus. Here is the listing ( not ranking ) of some of these applications, which can be used on Window managers.
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How to retain changes in Backtrack 4 installed on USB
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In this article we will describe how we can create a bootable Backtrack 4 USB Drive that will save all the changes we make on the USB itself. In this scenario we will use 2 USB Drives. One USB drive of 1GB and the 2GB USB drive which will hold our changes.
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Bordeaux 1.8.6 for Linux Released
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The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 1.8.6 for Linux today. Bordeaux 1.8.6 fixes a critical bug in the rpcrt4.dll. If you have had problems with Bordeaux 1.8.x not installing a application we recommend you update to 1.8.6 and the problem should now be resolved. Bordeaux allows Linux users to run many of today's popular windows based applications and games on Linux.
Read more »Ubuntu Privacy Remix: UPR 9.04r2 released
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Announced by UPR team the release of the second stable release of Ubuntu Privacy Remix 9.04. All software packages including the kernel were updated to their newest version to close security holes and fix bugs.
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Time for a New Puppy: Puppy Linux 4.3
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Mac OS X Snow Leopard? Windows 7? Forget it. The coolest OS release of the year is Puppy Linux 4.3.
Read more »KDE's Project Silk Frees the Web from Browser Limitations
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Content from the web becomes easily accessible to applications and in extension to the user. Web applications become first class citizens on the desktop. Local clients are enhanced by the web, the web experience is enhanced by local clients' possibilities.
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The Grumpy Editor's hugin experience
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The free software community has produced a wealth of tools for the manipulation of image data. For simple changes, such as cropping, resizing, or basic contrast tweaking, any of a number of programs can be used. More complex changes will require falling back to tools like the GIMP, krita, or cinepaint.
Read more »Task Oriented Semantic Desktop in Mandriva Linux 2010 RC1
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Mandriva Linux 2010 RC1 has been out for a few days. It includes many new end-user features for innovative metadata management on the desktop. This is a walkthrough of these semantic desktop features that bring task oriented desktop to Linux. The new semantic features are based on innovative Nepomuk, Scribo and KDE technologies.
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Ubuntu Version 10.04 Code Named Lucid Lynx
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Attendees at Atlanta Linux Fest's breakout session Ubuntucon were among the first to hear straight from Mark Shuttleworth that the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu's next release -- version 10.04 -- will be named Lucid Lynx.
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