Sugar Labs has revised the LiveUSB version of its education-focused "Sugar" Linux distribution. "Sugar on a Stick v2 Blueberry" offers simpler navigation, improved wireless networking, streamlined activities updating, better Gnash support for Adobe Flash, and activities designed for reading electronic books (ebooks), says the non-profit organization.
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Thunderbird is Go!
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Cyber Cynic: "But, then Mozilla put Thunderbird on the back burner to focus its attention on Firefox, and, frankly, Thunderbird slowly aged into a second-rate e-mail client. Now, at long last, a new, and vastly improved version of Thunderbird has just been released, and, let me tell you, it's back to being great."
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KDE 4.4 Beta: Incremental Doesn't Mean Directionless
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Incremental releases for large projects are often grab bags of unrelated features. However, KDE SC 4.4 beta 1 (aka KDE 4.3.80) is a welcome exception to the rule.
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Amazing Android Apps - Text Edit
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One of the tools I needed was a text editor, because, let's face it, with a "mini computer" in your pocket you'll need a way of creating and editing text files. After testing several text editors I found that Text Edit was the best.
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Make Your Own Holiday Cards with GIMP
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It's the holiday season! Regardless of which holidays you celebrate, it's a good time to connect with relatives and absent friends. GIMP is a great tool for creating your own custom holiday cards; Akkana Peck shows how to do this using your own images.
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Project Renaissance Impress Improvements
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As indicated in the previous posts, we have started to redesign a few really basic interactions in OpenOffice.org Impress in order to reduce the overall complexity of the UI.
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Google Chrome 4.0 Beta for Linux Arrives
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Just in time for holidays, the wonderful developers at Google announced a few minutes ago that the Chrome browser for Linux is finally in a beta state and has been added on the official Chrome website for download!
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Tech Tip: Add Latitude/Longitude Information to Photos
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Since my camera doesn't have built in GPS support, I wrote this script to add the location information to the pictures when they are on the computer already.
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Lucid To Get Windows Aero Style Look
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Lucid may not be getting a new GTK theme but it will still be getting an entirely new look.
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Get the best KDE Linux distro
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Not all distros are made equal, particularly if you're a KDE user. So, we took eight of the top KDE-focused distros and pitched them head-to-head to find which ones really rock, and which ones just limp along with a vanilla set of packages.
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How to fix the Ubuntu GPG Error BADSIG
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If you are seeing Ubuntu GPG Error BADSIG use the one of the following methods to fix
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Uget My best Download Manager
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I have been using GNU/Linux for two years so far, and I'm using Ubuntu (GNOME). Over this period, I have tested a lot of download manager applications; unfortunately, I can't find the one that suits best for me, because what I have in mind was a program which more or less is simple, lightweight and practical.
Read more »Exploring New Nepomuk Features in Mandriva Linux 2010
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You have probably heard of Nepomuk, the semantic desktop technology we've been shipping for a while as part of the KDE Platform. However, so far, you may not have noticed it really doing very much useful for you. So what is this thing called Nepomuk, what can it do for us now and what will it bring us in the future?
Read more »Sugar software environment gets sweeter with version 2
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Sugar Labs has announced the availability of Sugar on a Stick version 2, a major update of its Linux-based operating system for education that was originally developed for the One Laptop Per Child project. The new version introduces an ebook reader and a number of other important features.
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Hold that (trojan) horse!
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The current news making a big splash around the Linux community is of a trojan that has been created and deployed on the Gnome-look website. For a start this trojan can not automatically install itself. It is not a virus and relies on social engineering to be effective.
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