Nautilus Elementary just added a customizable toolbar as well as a button to toggle between a text-mode and breadcrumbs location bar - something which almost everybody has been missing in the default Nautilus that comes with Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.
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SUSE MeeGo: a new Novell Linux for netbooks
Novell is working on a successor to SUSE Moblin which will use components of the Nokia and Intel driven MeeGo operating system. It's expected that SUSE MeeGo will be available pre-installed on consumer devices within the next 12 months
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Openness, transparency, and community: The future of commenting on the web
It's not often that I find something in the comments on a major news site that's more interesting than the original article. But that's exactly what I just came across--and it's a comment about comments.
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Sound menu mockup for ubuntu 10.10
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Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring RC2 arrives
The Mandriva developers have issued an additional release candidate for Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring aimed at addressing bugs in the previous RC, possibly delaying the final release which was scheduled for tomorrow
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FOSS: Free and Open Source Software
FOSS is an abbreviation for Free and Open Source Software. In other words, FOSS is software whose source code is openly available. People can install and even modify FOSS as they please, so long as they follow a few basic requirements listed in the license.
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Google to launch Chrome OS this autumn
At this year's Computex PC trade show in Taiwan, Google has confirmed that its upcoming lightweight, browser-centric Chrome OS will launch in the late autumn
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Review: PCLinuxOS 2010 KDE – With Screenshots
I used to be an avid PCLOS user. 2007 to 2008 I swore by it. It was THE distro for installing on PC’s. It supported codecs out of the box, worked when Ubuntu would not, and was quicker. I decided to take a look at the newest release of PCLOS this week.
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Sourceforge eats its open-source dogfood
You might not recognize the name Geeknet, but you probably know its popular tech sites such as Sourceforge, Slashdot, Ohloh, Think Geek, Freshmeat, and the recently acquired Geek.com.
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June 2010 Issue of The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine
The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the June 2010 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine.
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Technologies and 2011 as the year of Linux – The underpinnings of success
The first and most frequent point of contact between the user and their computer is the Desktop Environment (DE), the aggregation of icons, windows, toolbars, folders, wallpapers, shortcuts and desktop widgets, themed and styled in a given way to create a distinctive graphical user interface (GUI).
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Fedora 13 review
Fedora 13 is the latest update to the Redhat-sponsored, RPM-based Linux distribution. It has long held a reputation of being a testbed for features that will eventually make it into Redhat Enterprise Linux, and, therefore, less stable than other desktop-oriented distributions. Inspite of that, it is a very good distribution.
Read more »Novell releases netbook SUSE Linux
VANQUISHER OF SCO Novell, which is seeing off a buyout from a vulture capitalist fund, has annouced it will release a SUSE flavour of Meego that is a fully supported Linux operating system for netbooks.
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Curating the European University. European exposition and public debate
This is an academic call for paper which is worth the FS community (and free culture communities in general) paying attention to. Please forward it to your academic friends.
Read more »Double Commander - A cross platform open source file manager with two panels
Double Commander is a cross platform open source file manager with two panels side by side. It is inspired by Total Commander and features some new ideas.
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