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Ubuntu Jaunty Doesn't Show When Updates Are Available Fix

http://webupd8.blogspot.com

Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope doesn't show the update icon in the system tray when there are updates available. This is because the update system was changed in Ubuntu Jaunty:

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Created by nilarimogard 16 years 40 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 40 weeks ago
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OpenBSD: Check out my Xfce desktop

http://insidesocal.com

After many months in OpenBSD 4.4 with the project's default window manager, Fvwm, I decided to finally try one of the more popular "desktop environments."

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Created by bollezza 16 years 40 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 40 weeks ago
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Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Has Been Released

http://webupd8.blogspot.com

New features include:

1) Gnome 2.26 desktop environment, which includes the following new features:

a) brasero, an all-in-one CD burning application.
b) Improved multi-monitor handling.

2) X.Org server 1.6,

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Firefox 3.0.9 security release now available

https://developer.mozilla.org

As part of the Mozilla Corporation’s ongoing security and stability process, Firefox 3.0.9 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux users as a free download from getfirefox.com.

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Changing Priority on Linux Processes

http://www.nixtutor.com

When talking about processes priority is all about managing processor time. The Processor or CPU is like a human juggling multiple tasks at the same time. Sometimes we can have enough room to take on multiple projects. Sometimes we can only focus on one thing at a time.

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Created by marcrosoft 16 years 40 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 40 weeks ago
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Home Education and Open Source Software

http://www.computerworlduk.com

Home education is all the rage and for good reasons. How can Open Source Software help?

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Created by ford prefect 16 years 40 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 40 weeks ago
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10 Music making Apps for Linux

http://linux-masters.com

A list - with brief descriptions - of great applications for audio editing and production on Linux.

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Created by electronichouse 16 years 41 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 40 weeks ago
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Xfce 4.6.1 Released

http://mocha.xfce.org

The first bugfix-release of xfce 4.6 has been released. We have been able to fix several issues during the past few weeks.

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Created by Sheik Djibouti 16 years 41 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 40 weeks ago
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AcidRip for Linux Rips DVDs with Two-Click Ease

http://lifehacker.com

Just over a year ago, we offered a semi-easy way to rip DVDs in Linux to video files. Had we been up on AcidRip, we could've saved ourselves about 900 words.

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Created by electronichouse 16 years 41 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 41 weeks ago
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The 6 Free Softwares For Designers That Are Absolutely Useful

http://www.smashingapps.com

We have lots of commercial software available to use on different platform to complete our different work. As they are not free and sometime we do not able to purchase or for some reason we urgently need some software to complete any task but without having a licensed copy of commercial software we can not perform that job.

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SliTaz 2.0: Screenshot Tour

http://www.linuxinfusion.com

If you are looking for something small to run on an older computer, SliTaz is definitely a worthy contender to look into. Do not let the small size of the ISO fool you. It contains more than enough software to get you going.

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Created by emacsfanatic 16 years 41 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 40 weeks ago
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Linux-libre: now with a boot mascot!

http://aligunduz.org

Having gathered some beautiful samples, I decided on my favorite and put together a kernel patch today. It basically adds the option of building a new Linux-libre logo into the kernel. Here's the result!

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Created by gnufs 16 years 41 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 41 weeks ago
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One week with Debian

http://bloc.eurion.net

Jaunty was a great experience, until around a month ago, when my nice ext4 file systems started to get corrupt on daily basis and I had to reinstall. I decided that it’s about time that I try out Debian.

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Created by gumbi lives 16 years 41 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 41 weeks ago
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Introducting KDE 4: Akregator News Feed Reader

http://introducingkde4.blogspot.com

Welcome to another issue of the Kontact series, this week we will give a look to Feeds part of Kontact, I used to use this application on KDE 3.5, and it seems like it didn't change much. But this isn't a bad thing.

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Created by netturfer 16 years 41 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 41 weeks ago
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Do you need to worry about the new /dev/mem rootkit problem?

http://blog.ibeentoubuntu.com

A new paper was presented in late March about using /dev/mem to inject and hide a rootkit (PDF), and the method has been getting some press, leading to a little concern.

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Created by polbaan 16 years 41 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 41 weeks ago
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