First off, I realize that I just barely scratched the surface with this review. I thought about going through the install procedure, but I have no interest in editing hours of video down to just a few minutes
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New Unity release ready for testing in Ubuntu 10.10/10.04
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Unity is the default UI for Ubuntu Netbook Edition in 10.10. It's a step forward in the Netbook Edition, making it easy and well-fitted for those screen sizes for your a desktop environment.
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NotifyOSDconfig - Simple GUI for Customizing NotifyOSD
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Canonical's on-screen-display notification agent, implementing the freedesktop.org Desktop Notifications Specification with semi-transparent click-through bubbles.Notify OSD presents these notifications as ephemeral overlays, which can be clicked through so they don't block your work. It queues notifications, to prevent them from flooding your screen.
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"Shifting" to another keyboard layout in GNOME.
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The Danish language makes use of two letters [åÅ] and [øØ] which are not on my Icelandic keyboard. Having to switch permanently between keyboard layouts all the time with key combinations (Windows way of doing things) such as alt+shift is tiresome! It turns out that there’s a very easy way to switch between layout in GNOME.
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Lubuntu 10.04
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In previous reviews, I looked at the latest versions of Ubuntu and Kubuntu. Now it’s time to look at a lightweight alternative to both of them, Lubuntu. Lubuntu uses the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE) instead of the chunkier GNOME or KDE desktops.
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Why an Ubuntu Tablet Won’t Sell
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Canonical’s foray into the tablet arena is fundamentally different from both the iPad and a WebOS tablet, and unfortunately reeks of a company failing to learn from their competitors successes and failures. Here are four reasons why an Ubuntu tablet simply won’t work.
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It's Official, Steam Coming to Linux
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We recently touched on one way of being a Linux gamer. Recent news that Valve Software will soon be releasing a Linux client promises to provide another option for Linux gamers. The news couldn not come at a better time as the world will shortly focus on gaming with the upcoming, industry-only E3 conference, the crown jewel of the gaming industry.
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Meego 1.0: A NoGo
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Personally I was very excited when MeeGo was first announced. After having used the 1.0 release of MeeGo that is targeted for netbook devices I really must say: I'm really not impressed.
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5 of the Best Free Linux Content Control Software
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Content control software, also commonly known as web filtering software, is software which is designed and optimised to determine what content can be viewed by the user. This software is particularly relevant to information supplied by a web browser.
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Transmission 2.00 released
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Transmission is a cross-platform BitTorrent client that is free software, community-driven, easy, powerful use, that has low memory footprint and cross-platform. It has following features: encryption, web interface, peer exchange ability, magnet links support, distributed hash table technology support, UPnP and NAT-PMP port-forwarding, webseed, and many more.
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FFmpeg 0.6 released
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Free software multimedia software, codenamed "Works with HTML5" as the special focus on this release were a lot of improvements that are relevant for HTML5 video. The H.264 and Theora decoders are now significantly faster and the Vorbis decoder has seen important updates.
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While Microsoft continues its dominance in the world of browsers, competitors weight as Firefox, Opera and most recently the Google Chrome occupy increasingly users. Now we will define the strengths and weaknesses of two popular browsers.
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KDE SC 4.5.0 – Beta 2 – Another Quick Look
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Having given a quick overview of the first beta of the latest KDE SC release last week, a couple of days later, beta 2 was released. So dutifully, I have updated to KDE SC 4.5 beta 2 to see what’s changed.
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Package.el merged
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"I have now added package.el, Tom Tromey's package system, to the trunk. It's been discussed on this list previously; to summarize, it provides a convenient way to download and install Emacs Lisp packages and have them loaded automatically at startup..."
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HOWTO: Installing Ubuntu Packages Offline
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Something that is difficult to do in Ubuntu is installing packages on a system without an active internet connection. This is a brief HOWTO for easily installing packages on an offline Ubuntu system.
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