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Backtrack security testing distro another great tool to convince people of Linux

http://www.handlewithlinux.com

Many times I have experienced windows system administrators who just didn't care about Linux.
These people are not against Linux, they just don't have very much of an opinion about it.

If I try to convince someone like that, I can take my whole live just trying to convince them to even try it.
But I found a way to make them experience Linux.

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Created by j00p34 16 years 42 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 42 weeks ago
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How Apt: Apt-urls Arrive

http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com

As of this morning, apt-urls are enabled on the Ubuntu Wiki. What does this mean? It means that we can now insert clickable links on the wiki that can prompt users to install software from the Ubuntu repositories.

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Dashboards, activities and desktops

http://www.notmart.org

Now the plasma dashboard is a way to quick access your desktop widgets whente desktop is covered by windows, and i really like this feature as it works.

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LMMS (Linux Multimedia Studio) - a FL Studio like FOSS program

http://lmpeiris.wordpress.com

What I have here today is a fruity – loops ( the commercial music editor for song tracks) like song/melody editor for Linux, with the full swing! Can you believe it? This is the best use of Qt 4 (GUI library) I have yet seen.

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KDE 4.3 - early preview

http://polishlinux.org

Finally the day has come, when the curiosity about the KDE4.3 development branch took the better of me.

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How to Run Aptana Studio on Linux

http://webupd8.blogspot.com

In case you didn't know, Aptana Studio is a free multi-platform (runs on Linux, Windows and Mac) complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with a collection of online hosting and collaboration services that help you and your team do more.

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Post to Twitter or Identi.ca in Vim

http://tuxtraining.com

A twitter/identi.ca plugin for vim, pretty simple to use and you never have to leave the command line to use it.

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Created by devnull 16 years 42 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 42 weeks ago
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Project of the Day: GNote

http://boycottnovell.com

The trailblazing route away from Mono seems clearer thanks to GNote

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Created by komrad 16 years 42 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 42 weeks ago
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3D Acceleration and Compiz Inside VirtualBox Guests

http://tombuntu.com

Sun has just released the major 2.2 update to their VirtualBox virtualization software. The most exciting new feature in this release is 3D acceleration for Linux guest operating systems! See the changelog for all the new features and fixes.

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Created by jeff2007 16 years 42 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 42 weeks ago
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Five reasons to put Ubuntu Linux on your netbook

http://www.roytanck.com

Microsoft pounded itself on the chest last week saying over 96% of netbooks now use Windows. This made me somewhat sad, because I was hoping these little computers could be the break Linux had been waiting for.

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Writing Plugins for GIMP in Python

http://www.linuxplanet.com

Have you ever wished you could automate a few functions in GIMP? Today's article will show you how to use Python to write simple GIMP plug-ins.

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The Face of Aptitude

http://www.raiden.net

On the face of it aptitude, a Debian package manager looks like some RGB monitor and a file manager from Ms-dos.

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Created by davelong 16 years 42 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 42 weeks ago
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Linux Desktop Hardware Myths Explored

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com

Perhaps one of the most common myths surrounding desktop Linux is the belief that modern distributions do not provide decent hardware support.

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Created by john.brubrick 16 years 42 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 42 weeks ago
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Using Zenoss infrastructure monitoring software in your data center

http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com

Open source software and widespread instrumentation have lowered the costs of producing IT management software. Open source systems management companies are using the free nature of an open source product, coupled with the cheap distribution the Web enables, to boot-strap their businesses.

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Created by beantown tech geek 16 years 42 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 42 weeks ago
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Review: Deluge 1.1.6 - Powerful BitTorrent Client for GNOME

http://tuxarena.blogspot.com

Written in GTK, Deluge is a powerful BitTorrent client which, in my opinion, is the GNOME counterpart to KTorrent, the most popular client in KDE. The version I will review in this article is the latest at the time of writing, 1.1.6, released on April 6, 2009.

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