Mainstream Linux distro developers have to make decisions that affect thousands of potential users. Should they include or remove a particular package? Should they apply a patch that may break compatibility with older machines?
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Top 2 iPod management tools for Ubuntu.
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If you have an Apple iPod and running Ubuntu on your computer, the following 2 applications that are readily available in the Ubuntu Software Center should be of interest to you.
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First look at Kubuntu Netbook Edition 9.10 and the KDE Plasma-Netbook 4.4 interface
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By the time Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" is released next April netbook users will have three Ubuntu variants customized for their smaller systems. Development versions of the forthcoming Kubuntu and Moblin variants were released simultaneously with Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" in September. This week we take a look at the Kubuntu Netbook Edition 9.10 Technology Preview.
Read more »Download Gnome Metacity Theme (New Wave – Chronos)
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New Wave - Chronos is a theme with a script to change the title bar according to time.
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Make my OS Faster
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Have you noticed how all prominent operating systems seem to bloat with each release? Windows is probably the best example, but even Ubuntu had slowly gained weight and become more of a resource hog over the years.
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Expanding A Root-FS
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There might be the situation, that your root filesystem runs out of space, so it has to be expanded. With filesystems other than the root filesystem this could easily be done for instance with gparted. With the root filesystem this is not possible, as gparted could only expand filesystems that are not mounted, which is impossible with the root filesystem.
Read more »Create Android playlists from PC
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Creating a largish playlist for Android is no longer painful. Learn how to create those from the PC
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Google chart shows which netbooks run Chrome OS best
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The chart details which systems have been "officially" tested by developers and reveals what hardware works and what doesn't.
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Dell Offers Custom Chromium OS Download For Mini 10V
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Dell has made available a customized download of Google's Chromium OS (the open-source version of Chrome OS), specifically for its popular Mini 10V netbook.
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Fedora Linux 12
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The latest release of Fedora is version 12 and it includes some nifty new features. I downloaded the Live CD version of Fedora 12 that features the Gnome desktop environment.
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Help PlayOnLinux
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To this day, PlayOnLinux has provided you with more than a hundred scripts. Thanks to PlayOnLinux quite a few people have made their final step towards Linux. Maybe you are among those recent addition to the community. As you know, Playonlinux allows you to use applications made for windows on the GNU/Linux operating system of your choice for free.
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B-Sides – Get Applications That Didn’t Make The Ubuntu Desktop CD
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Ubuntu B-Sides is a project that aims at bringing to you the "rest of the disc", a number of great applications that couldn't make it to the default Ubuntu desktop (by that, we mean directly off the official CD), but nicely complement it. We do this by adding applications and not replacing those that are provided by the release, and without breaking the "one application per task" rule...
Read more »Savage 2: A Tortured Soul - Real time strategy game for Linux
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Savage 2: A Tortured Soul is a fantasy / science fiction, real-time strategy, fps, rpg game is a sequel to to S2 Games’ Savage : Battle for Newerth. Both teams of human and beasts are pitted against each other in a gameplay where strategy, agility and alertness is needed. Activities such as kills, deaths, assists, building razes, damage and score points are tracked.
Read more »Ubuntu 10.4 (Lucid) boot experience changing from using usplash to plymouth
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This specification details the foundation team plans for the technology for the Lucid Lynx boot experience, changing from using usplash to plymouth to provide the graphical splash screen while waiting for the boot to complete. The "look" and "theme" components are not covered here.
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VirtualBox 3.1 adds live migration and branched snapshots
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The latest version of VirtualBox delivers some compelling new features, including support for live migration and branched snapshots. Migration capabilities reflect VirtualBox’s potential for ascending into the enterprise arena.
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