For years technology fans have been fighting over one of the most foolish mottos ever mentioned by the Linux community: “the year of the Linux desktop.” So rather than continuing the usual arguments any further, I want to instead take an honest look at where today's desktop Linux distributions are from a casual user perspective.
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The State Of Linux Desktop Functionality
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Install The Proposed Community Themes For Ubuntu Karmic Koala, In Ubuntu Jaunty Or Karmic
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There have been proposed quite a few themes for Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 and if you want to install them all in Ubuntu Jaunty for instance, you can just do:
sudo apt-get install community-themes
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My thoughts on Ubuntu
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This isn’t so much a review, just a rambling discussion on what comes to mind for me about Ubuntu after using it on my laptop for three months or so. I decided against writing a conventional “review” of Ubuntu… seems like there are enough of those, so I don’t see the value of it.
But I do see some value in a rambling discussion on the subject, so here goes.
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Free Desktop Publishing with Scribus (Open Source)
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Scribus is the leading open source solution for desktop publishing (DTP); it supports professional features like press-ready color separations and PDF output, as well as every media file type under the sun
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Ripping CD Music with cdparanoia
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cdparanoia is a command line audio CD digital audio extraction application. You can use use it for compiling music in a format suitable for your PC or mobile music player. cdrparanoia is available on almost all linux distributiions.
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OpenSolaris vs Linux
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So you've been playing around with alternative OSes for a while and you reckon you've got this Linux thing mastered. Maybe you're tried Mac OS X and found it a bit too restrictive (or expensive); perhaps you've kicked the Hurd's tyres and thought you'll come back to it when it's something more than just a clever name.
Read more »Midori Lightweight Web Browser Alternative
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Midori’s approach is the lightweight but still comfortable web browser. The portable web browser is based on WebKit which is also used by Google Chrome and Safari. This guarantees great page rendering speeds. One of the greatest benefits of the web browser is its low resource usage.
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gNewSense 2.3 released!
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"The gNewSense project is pleased to announce version 2.3 of its 100% FSF Free GNU/Linux distribution, in the form of a point update to the release codenamed ‘deltah’..."
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Greg K-H’s Little Kernel Nutshell and Gluing PDF Files with Ghostscript
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In my quest to grok the most popular kernel for GNU, I am making some distinct, albeit slow, headway into the inner workings of Linux. Before completely delving into the source code, I wanted to have a last overall look on kernel configuration
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Gimp - No more multi-windows?
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Gimp has been know for two very important things, being a pretty good image editor and having one of the most controversial UI with the use of multi-windows, but that might change very soon.
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ALSA 1.0.21 Upgrade Script For Ubuntu / Debian
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Using the same ALSA upgrade script as for 1.0.20, but with some minor tweaks, you can upgrade to ALSA 1.0.21 by running a simple sh file.
For instructions on how to run the script and other MUST READ info, please check our ALSA 1.0.20 upgade script post.
Once you do that, you can download the ALSA 1.0.21 upgrade script....[...]
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Tech Tip: Port Forwarding in Virtualbox with VBoxManage
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VirtualBox is a free, powerful and versatile virtualization program which is available for Linux, Mac, and Windows hosts, and can virtualize many different Operating Systems. VirtualBox was originally developed by Innotek, but was purchased by Sun and renamed Sun xVM VirtualBox.
Read more »Karmic makes you go WOW
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I thought I would just say WOW! There are little touches in Karmic that just make me think why wasn't this in before.
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Gnome Shell – Your Next Desktop Environment
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There’s been some grumbling among the Gnome community about if and when Gnome would have a major overhaul. Well with Gnome 3 we’ll have it in the form of Gnome Shell. It pretty much replaces the panel and window manager in a normal Gnome installation with a fully composited environment with some great new functionality.
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GNUzilla Firefox 3.5.3 released
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«This new version includes all the bug fixes present in Firefox 3.5.3.
New files are available for download here: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/3.5.3/ »
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