The long-awaited KDE4 is finally out the door after an extended gestation and a rescheduled launch date. In this inside look at KDE4, we see what all the fuss is about.
Read more »Two New Themes Arrive in Ubuntu 8.04
It’s not the complete redesign that was planned and canceled, but two new themes have been added to Ubuntu 8.04. The new GTK themes are Human-Murrine and Human-Clearlooks. The Human icon and Metacity themes are unchanged. Currently, Human-Murrine is the default in up-to-date Ubuntu 8.04.
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Open the full KDE Control Centre in Kubuntu
Kubuntu (and some other KDE-based distributions) features a special System Settings application which takes the place of the full KDE Control Centre application, which is used for setting all sorts of KDE preferences and changing different settings on the system.
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Quick Tip: HowTo Integrate Firefox and Thunderbird in KDE
Whenever you click a http:// or mailto: link in KDE, by default, Konqueror and KMail will open. I’m not saying these are bad apps, just that if you have Firefox and Thunderbird installed, why wouldn’t you want to use them fully?
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Free Racing Games: Guide to Free Open Source Games, Part 4
The thrill of speeding along at over 100 miles an hour or the danger of crashing into another vehicle traveling at similar speeds is a feeling most of us will hopefully be unable to experience in our daily lives. There is of course one way to live out our white knuckle fantasies, Virtually.
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Bos Wars and Globulation2
Bos Wars 2.5 has been released. Beautiful particle explosions are the highlight. I couldn’t find screenshots of this online yet. I downloaded and had a very brief go.
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All GIMP hotkeys at a glance
As you might know - we already had a small page about the most important hotkeys in GIMP. But now we've collected all available default key bindings of GIMP in a single list.
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Graphics and Free Software: a great 2007, but where is OpenGL?
2007 was probably The Year Of Free Graphics: AMD/ATI’s specs, a new totally Mesa , output hotplugging via XRandR and the announcement of new shiny OpenGL specs. While this all was truly great, the OpenGL releases never happened, and there are no updates on the topic.
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Alien Arena 2008 to be released March 1st
Alien Arena 2008, the followup to the game Linux.com proclaimed "blows away it's FPS competition" http://www.linux.com/feature/119775 is scheduled to be be released on March 1st, 2008.
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GIMP 2.4.5 released
"Version 2.4.5 of GIMP has been released. This is a bugfix only release..." -- http://www.gimp.org/
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Torrentflux — web-based BitTorrent client
The Bittorrent network is becoming increasingly popular and perfectly legal. It allows to download the latest movies, music or, to say the least, almost every Linux distribution available.
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Full Circle Magazine Issue 10 Released
Full Circle - The Independent Ubuntu Community Magazine is proud to announce the release of issue ten
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Howto Install Clam AntiVirus with GTK frontend GUI
Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner and advanced tool for automatic database updates. The core of the package is an anti-virus engine available in a form of shared library.
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Nexuiz 2.4 has been released
Lee Vermeulen's brainchild Nexuiz is a fast-paced first-person shooter, better comparable to Unreal Tournament than to Quake, though based on latter's engine. Release 2.4 has been available for some hours now. Time to grab a copy and freaking play it.
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Top 100 of the Best (Useful) OpenSource Applications
The following is a list of about 100 of the best OpenSource Applications, that actually help make Linux more usable for people. It is my hope that this list shows potential Linux users that there really is a large, effective, productive and usable range of free, OpenSource applications. For existing Linux users (like myself), I think this will provide a great resource in finding applications that may better suit your needs, or just for fun! Needless to say, this is just some of the thousands of applications available! I develop web sites, so this list tends to focus on applications which support that type of work.
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