A video tutorial about installing opensuse.
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Install OpenSuse Tutorial in Video
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Howto: Vectorize images in Inkscape
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I know you’re looking at it. I know because I can track links through Wordpress, and two hours after I posted that last screenshot, I had double-digit clickthroughs. It is a rather interesting image, don’t you think?
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Stitch Photos Into Panoramas with Free Software
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You can get decent photos out of a standard, consumer-grade digital camera, but a little post-processing can turn them into fantastic wide-angle landscapes. You don't need to be one of those people who can explain the concept of lateral chromatic aberration to get truly eye-catching digital pictures.
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The eSpeak Speech Synthesizer
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A while ago I played with the Festival text-to-speech program. Now I’ve found a similar application called eSpeak, which is included in every default Ubuntu installation.
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Amarok Insider, Issue 12 released.
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With the very latest on Amarok 2 development ( with more screenshots than you can snake a stick at ), past and future events, news on Amarok 2 on Mac and a wall sized Amarok logo, issue 12 of the "Amarok Insider" is a a great read for anyone curious about what cool and unique new features Amarok 2.0 will bring.
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Detect intruders on your network with Snort
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Snort is a Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS), which can view and analyze packets on a network to determine whether or not a system is being attacked by remote. Most Linux distributions come with Snort, so it’s simply a matter of installing Snort via urpmi, apt-get, or yum.
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Adjust Volume of Individual Applications with PulseAudio
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PulseAudio is the new sound server that’s being included in Ubuntu 8.04 and other recent Linux distros. A sound server lets changes be made to sound between the applications and sound hardware layers. Among other features, PulseAudio provides per-application volume controls, a plugin architecture, low-latency, networking features, and good application compatibility.
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Mobile Firefox gets speedup, design tweaks
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The Mozilla Foundation says the mobile version of Firefox, planned for release later this year, has been sped up nearly 600 percent in its latest builds. The evolving product, which will run on Linux-based devices, has also received several interesting new user interface (UI) proposals.
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ManiaDrive - a (slightly crazy) arcade car game
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ManiaDrive describes itself as “an arcade car game on acrobatic tracks, with a quick and nervous gameplay (tracks almost never exceed one minute)” and also as a clone of Trackmania.
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Evolution - Moving away from Thunderbird
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I have been using Thunderbird for quite a while now. It’s a great e-mail client and the fact that you can use it on multiple platforms made it a winner for me. I carry a USB-drive around with Portable Thunderbird on it. A simple edit of the profiles.ini file is enough to point other Thunderbird installs (for instance on my laptop) to the folders on the USB drive.
Read more »165 linux apps running simultaneously [videos]
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This is a video showing a GNU/Linux user running 165+ apps with no obvious performance problems.
Read more »Securing Your Server With AppArmor
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If you want to secure your server using AppArmor, you have to create and modify the profiles for all the applications you use. This can easily be done using the YaST AppArmor modules or the command-line tools.
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Recover Deleted Files with Foremost
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Ever deleted an important file? I haven’t recently done this on Linux, but when I used Windows I had a utility for recovering deleted files. Ubuntu Unleashed reported on some data recovery methods on Ubuntu, so I decided to try one of them out.
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Puppeee: Puppy for your Eee PC
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The Asus Eee PC ultraportable comes bundled with a version of Xandros as its operating system. If you would like to try a different Linux distro on your Eee, there are plenty of options to choose from, including eeeXubuntu, EeeDora, ZenEee, EeePCLinuxOS, and Puppeee.
Read more »Mandriva 2008 Spring Edition Released
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Mandriva, the leading European Linux distributor, today announces the launch of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring, the major new release of Mandriva Linux, featuring hundreds of improvements which make for a quicker and more powerful distribution that is easier to use than ever.
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