Recently I replaced my mother’s PC, and I thought I could switch her to Linux. She was previously using Windows XP with several Open Source applications. I decided to install Ubuntu 9.10, since it seems that it’s most devoted to non-expert users.
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The Best Google Chrome Extensions
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Google Chrome finally has an answer to Firefox's add-ons; we recommend eleven of our favorite Google Chrome extensions.
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Hybrid Graphics Comes To Linux In Crude Form
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While the support for graphics processors on Linux in the free software stack has improved a lot over Linux, there still are entire areas of support missing, such as with supporting NVIDIA's SLI or AMD's CrossFire technologies.
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Pandora FMS 3.0 Released!
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Pandora FMS is a performance & availability monitoring system, ready for big environments. It uses agents for local monitoring and can do several kinds of remote network monitoring. Agents works on Linux, Windows, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris and BSD systems.
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Apple iPad, the greatest piece of hardware ever!! Or is it..?
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According to a recent post on Ars Technica, Jim Zemlin of the Linux Foundation has stated that "Linux need "magic" to beat Apple. Well, perhaps, but here are a few points that I'd like to mention here to see if that statement is really true or not..
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Firefox for Mobile Has Been Officially Released
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The mobile version of Firefox web browser has been finally released. But don't get too excited because as of the moment, it is only available for Nokia's Maemo5 platform.
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Linux, the chicken and the egg
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Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The answer has never been fully resolved to everyone's satisfaction. Linux has a bit of a chicken and egg quandary too. To compile a Linux distribution you need to start from Linux. However I am approaching this question from another angle.
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Porting to Qt4 and its model view concept - testers needed
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During the last two months Marcel and I ported all tree views in digiKam from Qt3 to Qt4 and its model view concept. These changes are now included in the svn trunk. The new code still needs some serious testing and we would appreciate your help on this.
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KDE SC 4.4 RC3 Released
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With the number of fixes still going into the 4.4 branch after RC2 last week, the release managers have decided to pop another release candidate in between. Last night, Dirk tagged KDE Software Compilation 4.4 RC3, and we're releasing it today already.
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Blogilo: KDE’s blogging client
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Social media has taken over the Web in a very big way. It has even been argued that social media is the new Web or “new media”. Two of those popular social media sites are Blogger and Wordpress. There are many advantages to using client software on a local computer, such as the ability to work offline.
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Syntensity goes browser-based
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Syntensity, the open source metaverse where you can create and share 3d games scripted with V8 JavaScript, is working on a web-plugin that will let you play the game in-browser, just like Quake live! This will allow for better web integration such HTML game interfaces and in-browser scripting through services like Mozilla's Bespin
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When Memory Serves You: Using ramfs and tmpfs
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Need a performance boost for your reads from and writes to a database or other dynamic files? A RAM-based filesystem is just what the good system doctor ordered.
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Ultimate-Debian-LiveCD-i686 Final
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The Ultimate Debian LiveCD! A Megagog plethora of Browsers, utilities, & rescue apps!
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The Linux Foundation Will Train You - For Free
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A little less than a year ago, the Linux Foundation launched a program to provide a variety of training opportunities for Linux professionals. Just a few months later, the Foundation moved the program online, offering web-based sessions of select courses to reach a wider audience. On Tuesday, they took it one step further, announcing the free — as in beer — Linux Training Webinar Series.
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gstreamer decoders (HTML5 video and H.264 patents)
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I read through the FAQ and can't find out if Free and Open Source
developers and products need to license the MPEG-LA patents for
MPEG-4 Visual.
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