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Install Lugaru HD Game In Ubuntu (Now Free, Open Source)

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Lugaru HD was a part of the Humble Indie Bundle which allowed users to pay whatever the want for some great cross-platform games. They said they will open-source the games if they reach 1,000,000 - which they did, so all the games are about to be released as open source.

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Novell Might be Sold This Month

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Novell is looking for buyers and takeover bids may be imminent

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How to make Ubuntu 10.04 faster

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Is your system upto the 10 sec boot time all talk about?

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Created by gokulvarma 13 years 50 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 49 weeks ago
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Watch HTML5 Video on Ubuntu 10.04

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You've heard all of the advantages that HTML5 brings to your web experience, but how far away are we from enjoying the benefits of HTML5? With several browsers already supporting HTML5 video, I selected Google Chromium which was available for my Ubuntu 10.04 desktop and gave it a try.

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Testing out Funtoo

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"The other day I decided to give a try at Funtoo (for those that do not know it yet, a variant of Gentoo). I am very impressed with the improvements that Daniel Robbins has done so far..." —— See also: In 2 days: stable toolchain upgrade ——

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Kobby: Collaborative Text Editor

http://www.ghacks.net

Kobby is a tool that allows users to to collaborate on text files. The collaborative text editor is a really great tool for a lot of situations. Instead of passing documents (or emails) back and forth to get your work done, collaborate in real time.

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Using The Debian Alternatives System

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There are several cases where two packages provide two different versions of a program, both of which provide the same core functionality.

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dstat - Versatile resource statistics tool for Ubuntu / Debian Linux

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Dstat is a versatile replacement for vmstat, nfsstat, iostat, netstat and ifstat.

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Created by panayara 13 years 52 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 52 weeks ago
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Cron+Diff+Wget: A script to watch for changes in a webpage

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A few months ago I wanted to keep track of changes on a webpage... and wrote a script to do so. Later I discovered there were navigator plugins that did exactly that... But the fun in writing your own script is far greater than an anonymous script someone did.

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Run Your Own Web Server Using Linux & Apache - Free 191 Page Preview

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Learn about everything you'll need to build and maintain your Linux servers, and to deploy Web applications to them.

Whether you're planning on running Linux at home, or on a leased Web Server,

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Created by linuxtips 14 years 3 days ago – Made popular 14 years 2 days ago
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sed (stream editor) to colorise script output

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A sample on how to use the standard UNIX tool 'sed' to use colour in terminal output.

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Created by RBerenguel 14 years 3 days ago – Made popular 14 years 2 days ago
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Command Line Basics: View Text With less

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I've shown previously how to use the more command to view text output. Today I'll show how to do the same thing with the less command. You can run the command simply by opening a terminal window and entering...

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Created by Linerd 14 years 3 days ago – Made popular 14 years 2 days ago
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Free: A Newbie's Getting Started Guide to Linux

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Like many things, venturing off into a completely unknown world can seem rather scary, and also be pretty difficult in the beginning. It's while adapting to the unknown, that one needs a guiding, and caring hand. This guide will tell you all you need to know in 20 illustrated pages, helping you to take your first steps

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Created by linuxtips 14 years 4 days ago – Made popular 14 years 3 days ago
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How to:Speed up ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx boot time with profiling

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Ubuntu reached the 10 second boot time with Lucid Lynx. what if your system isn’t quite reaching that point?

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Created by gokulvarma 14 years 4 days ago – Made popular 14 years 3 days ago
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Get your free E-Book: The GNU/Linux Advanced Administration

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In this ebook "The GNU/Linux Operating System", the main contents are related with system administration. You will learn how to install and configure several computer services, and how to optimize and synchronize the resources using GNU/Linux.

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Created by linuxtips 14 years 6 days ago – Made popular 14 years 5 days ago
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