gfa is a small and fast address book written in C and GTK+2. It uses sqlite as backend for the addresses.
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Mega Games Bumper Post
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XreaL, ETCE, Extreme Tux Racer, and Paintown, some awesome and not-well-known open source game projects, plus others. A typical Free Software games news day, why aren't you reading!?
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What does your video card do when you’re not playing games?
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A 1min. 52sec. video of my current desktop running Gentoo Linux...
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Changing the game
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WHAT’S the best-selling notebook computer on Amazon.com? If you guessed the new MacBook Air, guess again.
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Arch: Pros Only, But Not Bad
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Arch Linux is one of the few distributions to be optimized for an i686 processor- in other words, it's really fast without having to compile anything.
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PlayOnLinux APT repository and 2.0.8 released
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PlayOnLinux today went live with their new APT repository the repository will enable you to automatically update your computer at the time of each release of PlayOnLinux.
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Bordeaux WineTricks Manager 0.3 released
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This is the third release (0.3) of Bordeaux, this release has many fixes and improvements over the 0.2 release. The Application Manger and Winetricks manager are now merged in to a single UI for ease of use. this release has many other small fixes and tweaks as well.
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Desktop GIS for Linux: An Introduction
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This article provides an overview of Linux-based tools for Geographic Information Systems (GIS), including a quick take on the ESRI's ArcReader. Future articles will explore this and other individual tools in greater depth.
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Indywiki: A visual browser for Wikipedia
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While you can quickly find an article about a particular topic using Wikipedia's search capabilities, there are other ways to explore the online encyclopedia that break away from the traditional search box approach. With Indywiki, for instance, once you've found the article you're looking for, you can continue to browse related topics visually, because Indywiki processes the current and related articles and extracts images from them. When you click on an image, Indywiki displays the article that the picture links to.
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Using mouse gestures across Linux
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My first brush with mouse gestures on the Opera browser was an accident, but the ability to quickly move backward or forward in the browser history, open new windows, close tabs, and more without using the menus or moving the mouse toward the navigation toolbar won me over immediately. Nowadays, this feature is available in Firefox and Konqueror too, and you can even configure mouse gestures for GNOME and KDE desktop environments.
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ASUS preps $500 'iMac killer' Eee PC desktop
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ASUS is expanding its Eee PC line to include not one but multiple extra models, including an all-in-one desktop, the company said today at a press event.
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Asus hopes upcoming Eee desktops are Eeequally Eeenticing
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Asus' ultraportable Eee has been a tremendous success for the company since it launched last October. Although not without its flaws, the device has proven extremely popular.
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Asus Eee PC: Why is it SO Hot?
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If you want to see the future of the portable PC, forget about the MacBook Air. While the fashion-model thin unit (retailing for a flabby $1,799) earns a few admiring glances, it won’t prompt a mass movement.
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First look: CrunchBang - A faster Ubuntu!
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Everybody knows Ubuntu, right? And I bet that some of you heard about Openbox, the standards compliant, fast, lightweight, extensible window manager (similar to Fluxbox). Well, CrunchBang is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu and powered by Openbox!
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Build you own custom OS !
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Linspire, Inc., developer of the commercial Linspire and Freespire community desktop Linux operating systems and CNR.com, a free Linux software delivery service, today officially announced an initiative to offer a custom desktop Linux OS Build Service to partners. Designed to provide custom desktop Linux OS configurations, the Custom OS Build Service will also significantly help partners cut time to market and greatly reduce the overall expense required when building a desktop Linux operating system.
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