If you're planning on using Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat on a computer with a processor older than i686, well... you can't.
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Linux 2.6.35-rc2 Kernel Released
With a week having passed since the release of Linux 2.6.35-rc1, Linus Torvalds has now replaced it with Linux 2.6.35-rc2. This second release candidate for the Linux 2.6.35 kernel brings more changes than Linus would have liked to see, but a bulk of the activity is happening within the kernel's driver staging area.
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Plasma Netbook and performance
The Plasma Netbook shell can be quite fast on a standard netbook, however many are experiencing it going rather slow. Why?
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Set a Rotating Picture of the Earth as Your Ubuntu Wallpaper
We've already shown you how to keep your desktop interesting by setting a video as your wallpaper and how to download and rotate fresh photos. This week, weblog Simple Help shows us how to rotate a photo of the Earth from space.
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How to Record internet radio using VLC
This tutorial will explain how to record internet radio using VLC this can be done with a single command using VLC
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Songbird 1.7.2 adds support for Windows 7
The latest stable release of the open source Songbird media player adds a number of new features, including video playback for Mac OS X, official support for Windows 7, MPEG4 and WMV encoding
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Why I’m using Fedora 13 now
There’s a reason I don’t update that much anymore: I’m no longer as excited by Linux as I was before. What I mean is, I no longer install every OS and every application anymore, just to know what it’s like.
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A new Bordeaux implementation of Wine will install IrfanView AND IrfanView plugins
In distributions built with newer packages, such as Ubuntu, the Wine supplied with Bordeaux should work well (in Debian all I had to do was use the distros own, older Wine and all began working).
And with support for easy installation of the IrfanView plugins, Bordeaux should make the installation of Windows applications under Wine even easier than before.
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Many hands make the light work; few make it shine
Ubuntu lives in a special place between Windows and Mac OS X reserved only for Linux: more shine than Windows, less than OS X, resulting in a steaming pile of mediocrity.
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KDE 4.4.4… or not.
A week ago or so, KDE 4.4.4 was released. So far there are NO binary packages at all. I am starting to think that most big binary providers think "so what" about KDE 4.4.4.
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Final Review: Pardus 2009.2
Not long ago I wrote an ARTICLE on Pardus 2009.2 Release Candidate, which I used as a preview for the latest release of this Turkey based Linux distro. As I mentioned then, that release candidate was very well rounded, so the preview already had a bit of review feel to it.
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DeaDBeeF - Ultimate Music Player For GNU/Linux
DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is an audio player for GNU/Linux systems with X11 (though now it also runs in plain console without X, in FreeBSD, and in OpenSolaris).
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Chrome and Rust: Pros and Cons of Google's Browser
First released in 2008, Google Chrome is the third most widely used web browser, coming after Internet Explorer and Firefox with a 7% market share. However, until the recently, the GNU/Linux version lagged behind the Windows version.
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Celebrate Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha with these awesome Meerkat-inspired Wallpapers
Whether you intend to download and install Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 1 or not the following meerkat-themed wallpapers will certainly get you in the Maverick-y mood.
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Top Linux games your money can buy
Who said Linux games have to cost nothing? Well, quite a few people, actually. But just as you pay, or at least, are expected to pay for Windows games, there's no reason why you should not do the same thing in Linux.
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