Susan Linton compares Mandriva Linux 2008 and openSUSE 10.3 in installation, visual appeal, included software, software management, hardware support, stability and performance.
Read more »Battle of the Titans: Mandriva 2008 vs openSUSE 10.3
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Font Management in Linux, Part 1
Fonts in Linux are crazy. Most Linux distributions ship with a big blob of serif, sans serif, and monospaced fonts, and there's barely a pixel's worth of difference between them.
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Why Bittorrent Matters
Ubuntu Gutsy came out today, which you should know unless you’ve had your head in the sand for the last week. Digg’s front page has been plastered with stories in anticipation of the big day, and I’m guilty of the hype, too, by writing a silly post earlier this week that made it to the front page without much merit.
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Sharing a keyboard and mouse with Synergy
Synergy is an open source project that allows you to share a keyboard and a mouse among several different computers, each connected to some sort of monitor, without any extra hardware (i.e. KVM switches). Synergy runs over the network and can be used with several different operating systems.
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FlickrSave: Upload your photos to Flickr from within GIMP
FlickrSave is a GIMP plugin which adds an option to directly upload a picture to Flickr. It uses Christophe Beauregard's flickr_upload tool as a backend. The plugin supports setting title, description, tags and privacy, and works in both GIMP-2.2 and GIMP-2.4RC under Linux.
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OpenCyc and DBpedia
"OpenCyc is now linked with DBpedia. DBpedia is a “community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia.” It mostly looks at infoboxes in the Wikipedia dumps and makes that into a structured query-able system...
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35+ keyboard shortcuts that save you time in Mozilla Thunderbird
"Knowing the most useful keyboard and mouse shortcuts for your e-mail client can cut down on writing time and increase productivity. But for shortcuts to make your job easier, you’ll need to commit them to memory.
Read more »Publishing High-Quality Documents with Kile
TeX and LaTeX produce impeccably laid-out documents, and are the only practical way to show some mathematical equations. This GUI tool acts as an "integrated development environment" for the command-line document preparation tools.
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Linux Quick Tip: Keyboard Shortcuts in KDE
For anybody who's ever used a computer, one of the things that many people find useful is keyboard shortcuts. It's no small task to update keyboard shortcuts in windows and because of this, it sometimes even causes fits for the more experienced users. But in Linux, specifically KDE, assigning keyboard shortcuts is a breeze. Let me show you how.
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Enemy Territory:Quakewars Linux Client released
A few days after the demo was released, on Friday, 19th of October, id software released the long-awaited linux point release for Enemy Territory:Quakewars. So we encourage everyone to play ET:QW on GNU/Linux. The official homepage contains information on how to get the files. There linux-client is available by torrent, take a look at the tracker here.
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Ubuntu 7.10 + WINE vs. Windows XP
For those of you who are interested, a comparison between running windows xp and ubuntu fiesty with WINE. It's pretty negative towards Ubuntu, but then, it's basically comparing proprietary software runs so we can't be that surprised.
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Microsoft’s top 10 reasons to upgrade to Ubuntu Linux, not Vista
Microsoft have listed 100 reasons why people really ought to upgrade from Windows XP. They appeal to usability, mobility, security and entertainment. Yet, looking through the list, we reckon they’re actually talking about Ubuntu Linux, not that dog Windows Vista.
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Upgrading to Ubuntu 7.10
Well today was the day! Its a Saturday and what else does one have to do on a raining day in beautiful British Columbia Canada, Upgrade to Ubuntu 7.10!
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How To Set Up Mumble Voice Chat On Fedora 7
This document describes how to set up a Mumble voice chat environment with Fedora 7. Mumble is a low-latency voice chat software with focus on games.
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Dual Boot in DELL XPS M1330 with Windows Vista, Ubuntu and Dell MediaDirect 3.3
If you are in the category trying ambitiously to setup your newly bought DELL XPS M1330 laptop for dual boot with GNU/Linux and ended up screwing up everything and finally Dell MediaDirect stopped working and don't know what to do, probably you've come to the right place, but you have to be ready for one fresh installation.
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