Mainstream Linux distro developers have to make decisions that affect thousands of potential users. Should they include or remove a particular package? Should they apply a patch that may break compatibility with older machines?
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Lucid Lynx Visual Timeline
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Perhaps you already noticed in my last post "Lucid Lynx - This Is The Plan" that I've created a Lucid Lynx timeline. I was inspired by Andreas Nilssons graphical representation of the GNOME Release Process and wanted to create something similar for Ubuntu.
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Top 2 iPod management tools for Ubuntu.
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If you have an Apple iPod and running Ubuntu on your computer, the following 2 applications that are readily available in the Ubuntu Software Center should be of interest to you.
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First look at Kubuntu Netbook Edition 9.10 and the KDE Plasma-Netbook 4.4 interface
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By the time Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" is released next April netbook users will have three Ubuntu variants customized for their smaller systems. Development versions of the forthcoming Kubuntu and Moblin variants were released simultaneously with Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" in September. This week we take a look at the Kubuntu Netbook Edition 9.10 Technology Preview.
Read more »Download Gnome Metacity Theme (New Wave – Chronos)
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New Wave - Chronos is a theme with a script to change the title bar according to time.
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Questions and Answers About the Linux Operating System
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The purpose of this article is to give answers to some basic questions common people may have about Linux.
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Continuation of KDE Klassroom
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Early on in the lifetime of the KDE Community Forums, the staff launched regularly-held courses for people willing to help KDE called "Klassrooms". The KDE Community Forums team is pleased to announce a call for new Klassroom mentors, to allow increased effort to be focussed on these courses.
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Eucalyptus: Boosting Ubuntu’s Cloud Efforts?
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For the Ubuntu cloud strategy to succeed, Canonical is going to need a big assist from Eucalyptus Systems - which makes the engine within the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC). But who exactly is Eucalyptus and is the company making progress with its own cloud efforts? Here's an update.
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Make my OS Faster
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Have you noticed how all prominent operating systems seem to bloat with each release? Windows is probably the best example, but even Ubuntu had slowly gained weight and become more of a resource hog over the years.
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KDE Plasma desktop: A failure that just won't go away
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I want to like KDE 4.3. I really do. But I don’t. I want to keep an open mind about where “Plasma” is heading. But I can’t. Hear me out, before you log me off.
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Linux: Freedom or Freakdom?
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I was talking with my friend, Jason Perlow, yesterday and he told me that I should back off of the free software rants because he feels that I'm entering the gray edges of freakdom. We laughed about it but it made me think: When does a strong belief in something become extremism?
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Expanding A Root-FS
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There might be the situation, that your root filesystem runs out of space, so it has to be expanded. With filesystems other than the root filesystem this could easily be done for instance with gparted. With the root filesystem this is not possible, as gparted could only expand filesystems that are not mounted, which is impossible with the root filesystem.
Read more »Create Android playlists from PC
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Creating a largish playlist for Android is no longer painful. Learn how to create those from the PC
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Google chart shows which netbooks run Chrome OS best
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The chart details which systems have been "officially" tested by developers and reveals what hardware works and what doesn't.
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Dell Offers Custom Chromium OS Download For Mini 10V
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Dell has made available a customized download of Google's Chromium OS (the open-source version of Chrome OS), specifically for its popular Mini 10V netbook.
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