So, a couple days in, and I'm still trying to (re)install Gentoo. More on that in a bit. First, let's talk about speed.
Read more »Viewnior: A simple and elegant image viewer
Images are part of our every day Internet usage and a good image viewer is an integral part of a good operating system. Viewnior is one such application for Linux.
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How are Open Source Software Projects Surviving the Recession?
The challenging U.S. economic recession has hit just about every segment of our economy--so how's it been affecting open source software development projects and their contributors?
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Makagiga, the taskmanager with the funny name
On the computer, I am surprisingly orderly but my life outside of the computer is a different story. I have been thinking there needs to be some way I can digital organize the non digital parts of my life. So i went looking.
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Impressions of C#
Over the last month and a half I’ve been working on an application using C#, .NET, and Windows.Forms in Visual Studio 2008. At first it seemed like they took the worst instead of the best things from Java and C++, but overall I’ve gotten to like the language. Here are some of my thoughts.
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Zenwalk 6 – Gnome
Zenwalk has always had the reputation as being a distro for the more seasoned Linux user, with the release of Zenwalk 6 Gnome, has this changed? Has this Slackware based distro taken the route of Ubuntu? Short answer – not really, but then why should it?
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Cube 2: Sauerbraten - Awesome First-Person Shooter
In this article I'll overview Cube 2: Sauerbraten, an open-source shooter running on Linux, which also provides a gaming engine for developing FPS games.
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Summer ‘09 Distro Round-up:
I picked a Lenovo Y530 which also turned out to be quite an awesomely compatible Linux machine when tested w/ a Live USB, so I decided to make it my “Linux Box”. But what distro to run? Here are a few brief “non-review” reviews of distros on my hardware.
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Virtualizing Free Linux Distributions in Windows Server 2008 R2
It’s been a while since we’ve had a hardcore Geek Sheet installment, and I promise that this one will be a real winner.
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Linux Ain't Broke But Here's Five Ways to Fix It
Linux distributions could use a boost in a few different areas, specifically these five: Virtualization, Graphics, Games, Point-of-Sale and Education.
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Signs That Microsoft Might Prepare for ‘Patent Terror’ Against Rival Office Suites
Signs of increased patent aggression in Microsoft's behaviour amid sinking profits
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Intel-Microsoft Collusion in Sub-notebooks: A Smoking Gun
More compelling evidence for ongoing investigation into price-fixing
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Quick List Of Things You Need To Do After Installing Ubuntu
Ubuntu is the most popoular GNU/Linux distrbution with millions of active users. Being popular also means that, there are a lot of newbie users as well. Here is a quick list of things a newbie Ubuntu user should knew.
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KDE 4.3 on a MacBook Pro
Recently, KDE 4.2 had become my default system on this machine, after I got it set up exactly how I wanted.
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Is Linux Irrelevant?
It's not the distro or even the Linux kernel that matter. It's the things made with Linux -- the servers, smartphones, netbooks, and other mobile devices.
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