You’ve probably seen the advertisements for Windows 7 and the tiling windows feature. KDE refines the same feature and ads it into 4.4.
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KDE 4.5 Window tiling
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Wacom Control Panel - Easily configure wacom tablet
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Gnash 0.8.8: A Huge Improvement Over Previous Versions
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Early this week Gnash 0.8.8 was released. Despite the small increment in version number, which would make this seem like a minor maintenance release, the difference between version 0.8.8 and the earlier 0.8.7 is like night and day.
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Linux Mint 9 offers new software manager, backup tool
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The Linux Mint team has released the final version of Linux Mint 9 ("Isadora"), based on Ubuntu 10.04. Linux Mint 9 features a new software manager with 30,000 packages, a new backup tool, and menu and interface improvements, says the team.
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Record Installed .deb Packages In A Text File (Ubuntu/Debian)
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This short guide shows two methods of recording all your installed .deb packages in a text file that you can then use on another computer to install the same packages there. This is useful if you want to install the same set of packages on more than one computer.
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Kontact: How does it compare to the competition?
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With all of this talk about KDE 4.5 lately, I thought I should take a moment to mention a tool that hasn’t had much (or any) talk here on Ghacks. That tool is Kontact. But what is Kontact?
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digiKam 1.4.0 released
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DigiKam is an advanced digital photo management application. The new version brings new Remove Doubles feature and a lot of bug fixes
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Painless Panorama Stitching in Linux with Hugin
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A previous article described how to make small panoramas with fotoxx. But when you get serious about panoramas on Linux, there's really only one answer: Hugin.
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Why Firefox 4 is now the browser to beat
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The latest Firefox beta is a very impressive piece of work, in large part because of its new Panorama feature. It's clearly become the top browser of all. Here's why Chrome, Internet Explorer, and all the rest have a lot of catching up to do.
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KDE 4.5: Your New Desktop Awaits
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Jack Wallen writes: "Not only is KDE 4.5 a far superior desktop to its predecessor, I would go as far to say that it has finally surpassed 3.5 in both usability and performance. That's a bold statement considering how the desktop has evolved."
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Ubuntu 10.10 Software Center - Application That Received Maximum Attention Perhaps
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Ubuntu Software Center is something we all overlooked for long. Even while writing tutorials about installing different applications in this blog, I prefer to provide command line instructions only. But a lot of Ubuntu users are new comers and Software Center means a lot to them.
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Inkscape 0.48 lined up and released
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The open source scalable vector editor gets an update with multi-path editing and an improved text tool
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Mono in GNOME Zeitgeist
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Seif Lotfy inquires about more Mono dependency which makes its way into GNOME's core components
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0 A.D. - An awesome war/economy strategy game for Linux | PPA Ubuntu
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0 A.D. (pronounced "zero ey-dee") is a free, open-source, cross-platform real-time strategy (RTS) game of ancient warfare. In short, it is a historically-based war/economy game that allows players to relive or rewrite the history of Western civilizations, focusing on the years between 500 B.C. and 500 A.D.
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Create A Full System Backup Or Custom Live Ubuntu / Debian CD With Remastersys
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It's one of the best tools out there to make a disaster recovery disc or make an ISO of your own customized Ubuntu. It's an equivalent to Windows backup and restore (if you use it only for system recovery and not to recover your personal files).
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