So, given that the vast majority of users don't actually use an OS as anything more than a launchpad for their word processors, IM clients, games and web browsers, why has Linux failed to make any real impression in the desktop OS space? The problem, in a nut shell, is that the word processors, IM clients and games they use in Windows don't run in Linux.
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Music player Amarok 2.4.3 gets new Dynamic Playlist
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Amarok 2.4.3 brings tweaked visual design, removing the status bar at the bottom, and replacing it with more focused notifications up top, or where they make most sense. You’ll also see some nice new visual effects in the layout as well. The new Dynamic Playlist should be easier to understand.
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Wineskin Pro is now compatible with PaulTheTall game wrappers
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Wineskin Pro users can now easily play hundreds of Windows games on their Mac computers with the wrappers from PaulTheTall.
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Play DotA clone Heroes of Newerth on Linux Natively For Free
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Heroes of Newerth (commonly known as HoN) is a free-to-play action/real-time strategy game based on DotA. The developer S2 Games announced last Friday that HoN is now free-to-play. HoN is heavily inspired by the popular Warcraft 3 mod, Defense of the Ancients (DotA), but with vast improvements in graphics and gameplay.
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Wine 1.3.26 Released
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The Wine development release 1.3.26 is now available.
What's new in this release:
* Various improvements to the builtin Internet Explorer.
* Support for Get/SetDIBits in the DIB engine.
* Support for enhanced metafiles in the View tool.
* Many improvements in WinHTTP.
* A number of fixes to the COM stubless marshaller.
The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.0 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3]
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This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 6.0 x86_64 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 nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.
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Setting Up Unison File Synchronization Between Two Servers On Debian Squeeze
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This tutorial shows how to set up file synchronization between two Debian Squeeze servers with Unison. Unison is a file-synchronization tool similar to rsync, but the big difference is that it tracks/synchronizes changes in both directions, i.e., files changed on server1 will be replicated to server2 and vice versa.
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Btrfs Switch Postponed To Fedora 17
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While it originally appeared that Fedora 16 would be the first major distribution (besides possibly counting MeeGo) to switch to Btrfs as the default Linux file-system, that's not going to happen. Fedora 16 will continue defaulting to EXT4 and it will not be until Fedora 17 now that Btrfs will be the Fedora file-system default.
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Plans for KDE's fifth generation announced
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As part of the Desktop Summit currently taking place in Berlin, the KDE development team has announced that work on the fifth generation of KDE is to commence. The new generation is not scheduled to include any fundamental changes of the type seen in KDE 4.0 and GNOME 3.0. Instead, it will be 'KDE Frameworks 5.0', which will likely be the foundation for a future KDE Plasma Desktop.
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Copying the contents of a file to the clipboard in Nautilus
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One script that I did come across recently allows you to copy the contents of files selected in the Nautilus Gnome file browser to the clipboard. This is great for copying things like code snippets and customized email signatures for those applications that don't natively offer that functionality.
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Dear Gnome: Please listen to your users (Regressions in Gnome 3 from Gnome 2)
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Keep in mind: much of what I mention the below is done on purpose by design by the Gnome project, and aren’t necessarily bugs per se.
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Airtime 1.9 radio software released with magic file synchronisation and archive management
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Airtime 1.9, the open source radio software, is out now. A new file storage system now allows users to set ‘watch’ folders, to magically synchronise files and to easily browse their audio archives. Add to this Shoutcast support, a one line Ubuntu install command and improved front-end widgets, and Airtime 1.9 is one of Sourcefabric's most feature-packed releases ever.
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[Debian]my mouse stops working
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Hi, my mouse stops working!!! I don't know why but after I logging to Gnome or KDE and run some program it stop focusing n programs and panels and after I use keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+Alt+D for minimizing all windows or Alt+F1 mouse start working for seconds and then stops working again any idea?
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system often go back to log in screen when watching AVI movie
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[Ubuntu 11.04]system often go back to log in screen when watching AVI movie
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Wineskin 2.4 has been released
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Wineskin 2.4 update is available. You should see it available in Wineskin Winery, as well as the manual install version at the MediaFire download location. Since Codeweavers put up source code to the Wine they used for Crossover 10.1.0 and Crossover Games 10.1.1, I went ahead and built some engines with them. I'm not sure they are drastically different than the one previous versions though...
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