With the Advent of Ubuntu 10.1 I began tweaking the Os to my liking, changing the desktop, adding programs, and that sort of stuff. I was doing good until I find that wallpaper-tray is no longer supported by Ubuntu.
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PCLinuxOS 2010 - Familiar taste of radical simplicity
I find PCLinuxOS to be the big small distro. While it has a modest development team, the final product has always felt quite solid and polished, beyond the normal expectations of limited resources.
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Mark Shuttleworth: No GNOME-Shell in Maverick
Maverick will not be coming with the GNOME Shell interface by default but will be available to download via the repos.
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Finally a graphics card for Linux that works flawlessly with compiz and is lightning fast
After years of struggling and looking around, I have finally found a graphics card that works flawlessly when running compiz under Linux and that processes all the effects at lightning speed. I've never seen something like this for that reasonable price!
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Chrome VS Midori
Both in response to my recent review of Midori and some argument... ehm, discussion, in yesterdays Ubuntuesday OMG! Podcast, I have taken on the task of running Midori and Google Chrome through a few tests to see which one performs better and faster.
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Compiz Keyboard Shortcuts in Ubuntu 10.04
I couldn't find much information about keyboard shortcuts for Compiz effects in Ubuntu 10.04. I poked through the default Compiz configuration and found some I didn't know about, and some that have changed from previous versions of Ubuntu.
Some of the following keyboard shortcuts will not work at all if Compiz (visual effects) if turned off.
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How to remove Mono from Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx
To remove Mono from your shiny new desktop installation of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx enter the following command (after taking the usual precautions like backups of your data etc)..
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Mozilla releases Thunderbird 3.1 Beta 2
Mozilla has released a second beta for version 3.1 of their popular open source Thunderbird email and news client, addressing a number of bugs from the previous beta
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Slax: Clean, cute and quick to customize
I am a tinkerer. It is my nature. This is no doubt what accounts for my interest in Linux and computers. For tinkerers, one of the coolest and slickest distros out there is probably Slax.
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The Perfect Server - Ubuntu 10.04 [ISPConfig 3]
This tutorial shows how to prepare an Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND or MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.
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KahelOS (050110)
KahelOS is essentially a remastered version of Arch Linux. Arch Linux has always had a reputation as being somewhat inaccessible to average desktop users, and KahelOS is an attempt to make Arch Linux more accessible to more people.
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Kubuntu 10.04: Another Average KDE Distro
In the past, Kubuntu was new and fresh, and had that extra bit of attention paid to it that made a real difference.
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Taking Choqok to the Next Level
Anyone who has taken a class in economics is familiar with the difference between the direct cost of something and its 'opportunity cost'. Developing free software is a great example of this difference. A KDE developer does not have to spend hundreds of dollars on an SDK, he only needs to give up some of his time to develop.
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Ubuntu Lucid almost shines
The latest release of Ubuntu shows a great deal of promise but still needs time to really shine. Ubuntu 10.04, otherwise known as Lucid Lynx, was released last week and is the third long term support (LTS) release from Canonical. With much hype around the new Ubuntu theme, as well as the new social networking tools, Lucid had much to live up to. We took it for a spin to see how it fared.
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How to install ubuntu-tweak in Ubuntu 10.04(Lucid Lynx)
Ubuntu Tweak is an application designed to config Ubuntu easier for everyone. It provides many useful desktop and system options that the default desktop environment doesn't provide. At present, it's only designed for the Ubuntu GNOME Desktop, and always follows the newest Ubuntu distribution.
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