"In this announcement, a sentence has been ruffling a few feathers at Adobe and Microsoft: «Unlike Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight, we’re not building a proprietary platform to replace the web.
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Distribution Release: KNOPPIX 5.3.1
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"Klaus Knopper has announced the release of KNOPPIX 5.3.1. From the changelog..."
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Why doesn't Linux need defragmenting?
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. . . That is a question that crops up with regularity on Linux forums when new users are unable to find the defrag tool on their shiny new desktop. Here's my attempt at giving a simple, non-technical answer as to why some filesystems suffer more from fragmenting than others.
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Why GIMP is Better than Adobe Photoshop
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I’m no graphics professional, but like probably most of you, I do need to edit photos from time to time. I used Adobe Photoshop before since it is the most widely used image manipulating software. But when I started using Linux, things changed.
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TeeWars becomes TeeWorlds, Gets "Free-er" License, Stays Fun
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A game I reviewed a while back, TeeWars has updated to a newer version 0.40 along with the updated weapons physics and gameplay comes a new name, TeeWorlds, and a new License. This was followed quickly by a bugfix release 0.4.1 a few days later.
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Inkscape 0.46 Released !
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"The sources were already available at SourceForge.net for two weeks but now it is official: version 0.46 of Inkscape has been released..."
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New Features OpenOffice.org 2.4.0 (available now)
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The multiplatform, multilingual office suite OpenOffice.org announces the official release of version 2.4 with 9 new chart features, 5 PDF export enhancements, text to columns in Calc, rectangular selection in Writer, bug fixes, performance improvements, improvements supporting the growing library of extensions such as 3D OpenGL transitions in Impress, and much more.
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Free/Open-source Genealogy Software
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A computer program used to collect, visualize, and publish genealogical data is called a Genealogy (the study and tracing of families) software.
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Never Forget to Lock Again
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Okay, I lied right from the start with that title. Don’t get into thinking that you can get any real security out of this, as it is equivalent to a locking screensaver. In fact, this is just a screensaver add-on for GNOME. That said, it does prevent the occasional hyperactive child or devious coworker from messing with your desktop when you are away and forget to lock it.
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OpenOffice.org Inches Closer to Mac
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OpenOffice 2.4.x will be the last release of OpenOffice that requires the X11 system to run on a Mac. The conversion of the OpenOffice system to a native Mac OS X application has been in progress for many years and has been hampered by occasional politics, funding and manpower issues. Users have long been waiting for a native Mac version that doesn't require X11, and now it's on the way.
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OpenOffice 3.0 promises to bash Office
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Microsoft’s Office suite could have plausible challenger on the desktop for the first time since Lotus gave up trying to take on Redmond a decade ago.
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Use rsync for a simple incremental backup of a folder
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rsync is a very useful and powerful program for doing incremental transfers of files, whether that is locally or remotely. It can, however, take a little while to familiarise yourself with how rsync works before you can get started with it however.
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KWordQuiz: An amazingly useful flash card tool
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Since I was home schooled, I never had homework (homework and classwork were one and the same). And since I never had homework, I… never really had to learn how to study until high school. But when I did learn how to study, I found flash cards to be extremely effective. So I fell in love with KWordQuiz, a KDE Education project for flash card lovers just like me.
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All GIMP hotkeys at a glance
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"Gimpusers.com has a list of all key used in GIMP in the current version [...] EDIT: GIMP has the original - very nice PDF files in seven languages..."
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Put that Windows Key to Good Use
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How to make the Windows Key on your keyboard open a panel menu in Gnome. Linked are also ways of accomplishing the same in KDE and Xfce.
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