Like many people who aren't able to get DSL, I use mobile broadband. Typically, at least in Ireland and the UK, you are forced to purchase a modem with your contract.
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WattOS – A Fast Energy-Saving Linux Based on Ubuntu
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WattOS Beta 3 is a lightweight Linux Distro geared towards running on less energy and for recycled or low power computers without compromising on features or performance that you’d expect from a full power system. Their motto “Light, Fast, Now” seeks to provide a low-energy full featured Linux distro.
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Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS released
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The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, the third maintenance update to Ubuntu’s 8.04 LTS release. This release includes updated server, desktop, and alternate installation CDs for the i386 and amd64 architectures.
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Quod Libet - A Different GTK Music Player
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Quod Libet is a GTK music player written in Python with support for various audio formats, including Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP3, WAV, MP4 and WMA. Quod Libet has a different interface and a slightly different approach compared to players like Rhythmbox or Banshee, for example.
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Why GNOME Do Is Built With C#
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With all the recent heat generated about Mono and the C# language, it only seems appropriate to take a look at the issue from a programmer's perspective. There are a number of open source projects written in the C# language.
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Chrome OS and Autonomy
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With every shift from a piece of free software to a web-based network service, we have moved from a situation where a user had control over his or her software to a situation where users have very little control over their software at all.
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A Tale of Open Source Cities (No Sims Included)
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With a mighty "yehhh," the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, passed a motion to adopt open standards in its local government this past May. It allows governments to free themselves of pricy, proprietary software burdens while simultaneously opening up more areas of government for access by conventional citizens.
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Gnome-Art NextGen - Icons, Themes, Wallpapers, Splash Screens and Grub One Click Install
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Gnome-Art Next Generation is the successor of Gnome-Art and lets you change your Gnome-themes (icon-, wallpaper-, splash-,...-themes) with one click. It is in an early stage and under development but it looks very promising already.
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Sidux 2009-02 (KDE)
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Sidux is based on Debian and you can download a version that uses the XFCE or KDE desktop environments. You can also opt to download the lite version that weighs in at about 600MB or the full version that weighs in at around 2.1GB. Being the greedy app pig that I am, I opted to download the full KDE version.
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Open Source vs. Proprietary - Who Are The Real Zealots?
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Linux is at war. Linux is under attack. Do you, dear reader, have any enemies? Who, pray tell? Your mother-in-law? That one manager at work? An ex-partner? You know who Linux's enemy is?
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the home desktop, the the work station and the school desktop, oh my!
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It is the dream of untold OpenSource developers to have OpenSource and Linux dominate the home desktop market. To banish Microsoft Windows from the the 'adults' table over to the 'kids' table forever. What is it that Linux and OpenSource need to offer to accomplish even a portion of that dream?
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Creating your own ubuntu/debian packages with checkinstall
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Checkinstall is a beautiful program which lets you create your own debs or rpms. This program is available in the Ubuntu universe repository. Using it you can quickly build your own ubuntu packages from source code. You can install it on Ubuntu 9.04 as below.
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OpenSuSE, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva Benchmarks
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With it being a while since we last compared many Linux distributions when it comes to their measurable desktop performance, we decided to run a new round of tests atop four of the most popular Linux distributions: OpenSuSE, Ubuntu, Fedora, and Mandriva.
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Mozilla Firefox 3.5.1 Released
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Please see the complete list of changes in this version. You may also be interested in the Firefox 3.5 release notes for a list of changes in the previous version.
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Howto find Disk usage of Packages in ubuntu
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The following command help you to find the disk space used by different packages in ubuntu
open a terminal window and run the command
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