As I have been going around alternately prodding my friends and family to try Linux, or asking them if they thought it would be possible, one thing I have heard repeatedly is that a lot of people use Microsoft Office and are concerned about their Office documents on Linux.
Read more »Open Office vs. MS Office - the Other Key to Windows/Linux Transition
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20 beautiful dark themes for Gnome and Ubuntu
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Some weeks ago, I shown you a list of 30 themes for enhancing your Gnome desktop. Many readers loved the dark themes from this list, so here’s a new list of 20 dark and absolutely beautiful themes for your Gnome desktop.
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Dell introduces ten new laptops
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DELL JUST CAME out with ten new laptops today, some of which look very tasty indeed. They range from small to large, light to rugged, and have a ton of new features to go along with them.
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10 FAQ After one Week on Linux
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There are many cases when after looking at some of the FAQ on the web you ask yourself: “Are they for real? Who asks those questions anyway?” Questions like: “How Does Linux Kernel Versioning Work?” or “How much does Ubuntu cost?” don’t really provide you with the information you need. Mainly because they target a very specific kind of users.
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Dogs hide bones, Firefox hides useful tricks
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Firefox is one of those applications that's so hard to write about, because there may be little tricks and shortcuts I've been using for some time, and someone will discover one and say, "Hey, that rocks! Why didn't anyone tell me?" Then light dawns over my marblehead that it is a useful trick, and I should have pointed it out.
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Santa Cruz and its "Linux Strategy" Back in the 1990s
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Here are some more screenshots for you, showing the real Santa Cruz Operation relationship with Linux before the modern day SCO Group began suing the world and its dog. Back in the late 1990s, Santa Cruz had what it called its "Linux strategy". It included both money and support to help Linux succeed.
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RIP Permanently Removes Elements from a Web Site
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Firefox extension Remove It Permanently (RIP) selectively removes any element from a web site. If you've ever looked at a site and wished you could get rid of some unsightly image or an element that throws off the flow of a site, just right-click it with RIP and remove it permanently.
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Eye on Microsoft: ‘Pulling a Mammootty’, Exposing Windows PCs, Daemonising Opposition
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Several Microsoft stories from the news along with suitable context
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Pixar's rendering software - big on Linux servers, not Mac
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A reader of my recent story on Pixar announcing that its popular RenderMan Pro Server software would start to support Windows clusters questioned why I hadn't noted whether or not RenderMan already ran on Mac and Linux server clusters, known as 'render farms' in the animation biz.
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Feature: How to build and customize your own PBX with Asterisk
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This article demonstrates how easy it is to roll your own PBX in about an hour or two. Provided that the instructions herein are followed carefully, you too should be able to set up your very own switchboard/PBX system and all for the cost of the target hardware of your choice.
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10 Best-designed Linux Distribution Websites
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Most Linux Distribution websites have been redesigned to sport a Web 2.0 look. To give credit to their talented web designers/developers, I’ll pick 10 Linux Distribution websites that I think stand out from the rest. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so you don’t have to agree with me.
Read more »Caldera Press Releases, 1996-2001
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SCO keeps changing its story of "infringement", and so over the years, we've tried to track all the twists and turns, comparing their allegations with evidence available on the Internet or in our collections.
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Ask Linux.com: Theft recovery, skeleton files, and boot-looping Eees
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This week in our parade through the wide world of the Linux.com forums, what to do with a stolen-then-recovered laptop, how to rescue an Eee PC netbook stuck in an endless boot loop, and how make Likewise Open and /etc/skel play nice together. Plus, competitive bash scripting, unanswered questions, and a world of bad Olympic puns.
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Protest in India Against Software Patents
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A protest takes place, the press is humming, and OpenOffice.org may be getting poisoned by Mono
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How to run a dedicated Steam server on your Ubuntu box - Countestrike style
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I’ve recently started messing about with it and I’ve gotten Counter Strike, Counter Strike Source and Half Life multiplayer to launch off of it. I’m still mucking about with server settings and finding statistics for it however I did not find a ton of documentation on this through Google so I decided to put up my notes here.
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