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Ubuntu: Feminine theme by default :-)

http://www.stefanoforenza.com

Let’s get rid of competition with a feminine theme. Ubuntu community is brainstorming about the chance to ship a feminine theme with Ubuntu.

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Find Files with the find Command

http://www.linuxjournal.com

A video howto for using the command line to find files with the "find" command.

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Nexuiz 2.5 Raises The Bar For Open-Source Gaming

http://www.phoronix.com

Nearly a year ago Nexuiz 2.4 was released and it offered impressive graphics along with a new menu design, improved networking performance, reduced memory usage, and many other enhancements to this open-source game. The developers behind this first person shooter have now outdone themselves again with the release of Nexuiz 2.5.

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Handy Tweaks To Make GIMP Replace Photoshop

http://www.smashingmagazine.com

GIMP is the favorite graphics editing program of many designers and graphic artists. It has a wide array of features, as well as plug-ins, filters and brushes. Documentation is primarily available in online communities, as well as through extensive add-ons.

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Free addons for IceCat

http://www.gnu.org

"The http://addons.mozilla.org website, hosted on Mozilla servers, offers many addons to extend FireFox with additional features. The majority of these addons are not developed directly by Mozilla but by third party developers.

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5 Essential Add-ons for Firefox 3

http://tuxarena.blogspot.com

This is an overview of five essential add-ons which every Firefox user should take a look at.

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First look: Fedora 11 beta shows promise

http://arstechnica.com

The Fedora project has announced the availability of the Fedora 11 beta release. Fedora 11 includes several compelling new features such as support for kernel modesetting, Ext4 by default, and faster boot time.

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Created by polbaan 16 years 43 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 43 weeks ago
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VLC 0.9.9: The best media player just got better

http://news.cnet.com

If you've ever struggled to play a file you downloaded from the hinterlands of the Web, you clearly didn't try opening it with VideoLan's VLC media player, a free, hugely popular, and open-source media player.

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Created by smithers 16 years 43 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 43 weeks ago
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Review: Moon OS 2.0

http://www.raiden.net

MoonOS is one of those elegant distros, where it focuses a lot on eyecandy and looking good. And it definitely has a lot of good things to look at. Sorta like something that comes by and catches your eye in a way that nothing else can.

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Created by beckham 16 years 43 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 43 weeks ago
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Slitaz Linux - Tiny but fierce

http://www.dedoimedo.com

When someone asks you to name a small Linux distro, under 100MB, names like Puppy and Damn Small Linux come to mind. Now, the featherweight category has another candidate, a 25MB fighter called Slitaz.

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Created by Formaxx 16 years 43 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 43 weeks ago
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12 Popular Audio Players for Linux - An Overview

http://tuxarena.blogspot.com

Next is an overview of the best audio players available in Linux. I will only review the GUI players, leaving tools like mp3blaster, mpg123 or ogg123 for some other time. To begin with...

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Created by kbcornwell 16 years 43 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 43 weeks ago
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GNU IceCat 3.0.8-g1 released.

http://lists.gnu.org

"GNU IceCat 3.0.8-g1 has been released! GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Mozilla Firefox browser. This new version includes all the changes made in Firefox 3.0.8..." -- See also Free Addons for IceCat

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Created by can.axis 16 years 43 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 43 weeks ago
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Evaluating Ubuntu Backup Solutions — the FOSS Way

http://www.workswithu.com

I have something to confess. I don't keep regular backups. If the hard drive in my laptop was to fail I'd have a serious problem. I would be faced with the very real risk of losing weeks, maybe even months worth of work. What I need is a backup solution for my Ubuntu desktop that works with me. Here is how I found that solution and it was much easier than I had first thought.

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Debian 5: Lenny

http://pcquest.ciol.com

After Etch, it's time for Lenny to prove what Debian can do. The new release includes lots of updates, security enhancements and better hardware support for you.

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Created by gurner 16 years 43 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 43 weeks ago
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Beta Testing Fedora 11 and Ubuntu 9.04 for Intel Graphics

http://aligunduz.org

With the recent news of beta releases from Fedora and Ubuntu, I decided to see how far the graphics support has come. So, I downloaded live ISO images of Fedora 11 Beta and Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" Beta and created bootable USB images with FUSBi.

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Created by gnufs 16 years 43 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 43 weeks ago
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