As Microsoft struggles to keep Office in the market, Google seizes the opportunity and poaches big customers
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If your build from source is successful, you can make a Debian (Ubuntu) package (.deb) for future use:
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SSH login without password
For this you required to generate your own personal set of private/public pair. ssh-keygen is used to generate that key pair for you.
On the user’s home directory, on the localhost, type
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Download OpenShot, A Great New Linux Video Editor, in Ubuntu .deb Package
A while ago I was telling you about a new Linux non-linear video editor with some great features, called OpenShot. At the time of that post, you needed to compile OpenShot to be able to use it, but now you can download the latest version, 0.9.22 (Developer Preview) in Ubuntu .deb packages.
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Howto: OpenOffice Thumbnails in Nautilus
Nautilus (the GNOME file manager) is able to display thumbnails for several file types: images, video, audio (holding you mouse over a sound file for a few second), text, pdf, etc.
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Mini-summit on Women in Free Software
The Free Software Foundation will host a mini-summit on Women in Free Software to discuss how the free software community can cultivate and increase participation by women in free software's development and activism communities.
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Microsoft Drives Customers and Employees to GNU/Linux
In another money-grabbing move, Microsoft attacks the very same people who helped it
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Is Windows Mobile Being Replaced by Linux or by Ballnux?
Signs of gains and prospects for mobile Linux, but whose Linux?
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Stairway To Hospital
One of the greatest Linux Advocates alive today, at least in my mind, has nearly worked himself to death. And no, I am not kidding. He came close to dying. this is submitted ONLY to let the community know how he is doing and to show you that his sense of humor is still intact. The community outreach has been tremendous so take this only as a report...nothing more. And Bless The HeliOS Project.
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GNU/Linux Was Never a Problem for OLPC, Claims Technical OLPC Staff
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New Victories for ODF and i4i-imposed Word Ban as an Opportunity for ODF
New ODF Alliance member, more vendor support, and another, more positive way to view the i4i ruling
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Handling (Tar/GZip) and (Tar/Bzip2) archives
(Tar/GZip) archives end in ".tar.gz" and (Tar/Bzip2) archives end in ".tar.bz2". Bzip2 is the newer, more efficient compression method.
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Fanal released as GPL software!
"Fanal is a dynamic dns client (aka ddclient). It can monitor several IP addresses and update several dns. Written in Perl, it is used on GNU/Linux and probably work perfectly on *BSD. It is intended to be run as a daemon. It is licenced over the GPL v3 terms..."
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Reset a forgotten root password with a live CD
If you have forgotten the root password of a system, you can very easily reset it with a live CD
Any live Linux cd from standard Linux distros such a ubuntu , knoppix etc can be used.
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Install Remove and Reinstall/Reconfigure/Repair .deb packages
Debian (.deb) packages are the packages that are used in Ubuntu. You can install any .deb package in your system. .deb files can generally be installed from your file manager (Nautilus) merely by clicking on them,
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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.




