Does GTK theme make any noticeable change in performance? Yes. Here is a way to figure out how much does it matter. If you are interested in creating GTK themes you should know how to check performance of theme..
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Massive New Migration to Free Software in French Authorities; Gendarmerie Should Delete Mono
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French Directorate General of Public Finance dumps Microsoft software; The French Gendarmerie should remove Mono from Ubuntu
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PlayOnLinux 3.7 has been released
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The changes brought by PlayOnLinux 3.7 are:
- Right-clicking directly on A application is now possible.
- The ability to change an application's icon.
- The ability to access very quickly the installation directory of an application.
- The ability to stop all the applications run by PlayOnLinux at once.
F-Spot Considered Harmful
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There is a good possibility that every photo you've imported to F-Spot has had its EXIF date tags altered without your permission and without F-Spot informing you that it has done so.
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DOD open-source memo could change software landscape
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The Defense Department's guidance on the military use of open-source software has been a long time in coming, and should ease the widespread concerns in the military about open source-use.
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Vista, Windows 7, Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10 boot speed comparison
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Hot on the heals of the final release of the Karmic Koala, we've put together a video montage of 64-bit versions of Microsoft's Vista and Windows 7 operating systems booting alongside Canonical's Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10. Watch all four at once and see which one wins!
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Many open-sourcers back an Oracle takeover of MySQL
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A number of influential members of the open-source community are raising their voices about Oracle Corp.'s pending takeover of the open source MySQL database.
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Things To Fix / Tweak After Installing Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
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Everybody posts about applications to install after upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. I'm not saying they are not interesting, I'll even post some links to such posts from other blogs (look at the bottom of the post) I really liked, but to get there, you must firstly fix everything that's not working for you, tweak some things and so on.
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Gnome Lets Anyone See Your Keyring Passwords
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A security hole in Gnome allows anyone to see your keyring passwords without needing to enter so much as a password.
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OpenOffice celebrates 100 million downloads since version 3.0
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Just over one year after the release of OpenOffice 3.0, OpenOffice.org (OOo) project developer Joost Andrae has announced that the free office suite has been downloaded more than one hundred million times since the launch of version 3.0. OpenOffice is an open source office suite from Sun Microsystems for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems.
Read more »FR: 130,000 PCs at tax authority to get open source email client
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All 130,000 desktop PCs at the Directorate General of Public Finance (DGPF) in Paris are to be switched to using the open source Mozilla Thunderbird email client, its Lightning calendar and the open source groupware application OBM, the French IT news site 01.net reports, citing a source familiar with the project.
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Yes, Ubuntu can absolutely be the default Windows alternative
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And I don't just mean for geeks. I mean a real, viable alternative to Windows for many users despite the apparent quality of both Windows 7 and Server 2008.
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11 Most Popular Open Source Softwares Of All Time
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Today we are listing here 11 Most Popular Open Source Softwares Of All Time in which most of them are cross-platform.
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How To Enable Root (Super) User in Ubuntu
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If you are new to Ubuntu and have been using other distros like Fedora or openSUSE before, then you may find it frustrating that when you issue the "su" command it will result to authentication failure.By default, access to root account password is disabled in Ubuntu for added security measures.
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PacketFence 1.8.5 Released
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The Inverse Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of PacketFence 1.8.5. PacketFence is a fully supported, Free and Open Source network access control (NAC) system.
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Read contents from Free Software Magazine
Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanFrom the very start, directories have served a very useful purpose on the Internet. (One I find useful for example is Free Web Directory). News sites can also be considered directories: they index and categorize news stories! What about categorizing software? In the open source world you get Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat; there are still, believe it or not, shareware and freeware directories like FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and Freeware Downloads (although you need to be careful, as they are not like their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselAbout Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software?, it's clear that the topic of software directories is very hot. Most of what you find on Google, however, are not pointing to free and open soruce software -- or worse, they mix the two. Examples of such sites are Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download, which simply don't focus on "free as in freedom", and still can be used as good free software directories.
