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Windows Users download Ubuntu

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Today I was downloading Ubuntu 7.10 desktop i386 iso and came across an interesting fact - the maximum number of peers were using utorrent.

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Announcing the KStars Image Challenge!

http://kstars.30doradus.org

Ever wanted to contribute to KStars, but don't have programming skills? Now you can.

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How To: Unlock The Power Of Gnome's Text Editor

http://blog.wired.com

When I first started using Ubuntu I wanted to find a text editor something like BBEdit or TextMate on the Mac. After flirting with both Vi and Emacs, I eventually turned to gEdit, the humble little default text editor for the Gnome desktop. But I quickly realized that gEdit is actually quite powerful.

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Fedora 8 sees strong adoption in first week

http://arstechnica.com

The latest version of Fedora—codenamed Werewolf—was released last week. According to statistics released this morning by Red Hat, Fedora 8 has been already been installed over 54,000 times in only four days.

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Smolt passes the 200k entries mark

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Smolt, the distribution independent hardware data collection tool reached another mile stone: it passed the 200.000 entries mark.

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Linux and Windows: virtualize, Wine or dual boot route?

http://www.itwire.com

As I've mentioned in previous articles I currently have all the applications I need on my Ubuntu Linux desktop so I never need to use Windows. However, there are unfortunately still plenty of applications that some users need which are not available under Linux and have no equivalent. Adobe's Flash and Photoshop spring to mind, Turbotax is another that some miss, how about iTunes?

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The little desktop Linux that came out of the blue

http://www.desktoplinux.com

When a desktop Linux distribution suddenly becomes popular before even DistroWatch starts tracking it, you know you've got something special. One new Ubuntu-based distribution, gOS, has managed to capture users' attention purely by word of mouth over the Internet.

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Ubuntu 7.10 & Fedora 8 Performance Compared

http://www.phoronix.com

Back in March we had compared the performance of Ubuntu and Fedora as we tested Ubuntu 6.10 and Fedora 6 along with development versions of Ubuntu 7.04 and Fedora 7. During those benchmarks, Ubuntu 7.04 Alpha 5 had a slight lead over Fedora but the race was extremely close. In August we compared Ubuntu and Fedora again along with Xubuntu, Mandriva, and SimplyMEPIS, but using older PC hardware.

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Five Desktop Blog Editors for GNU/Linux Users

http://beans.seartipy.com

Ask ten bloggers at random what they use to compose their blog posts and chances are that you might get ten different answers to that...For the GNU/Linux users though, the options are pretty limited and I am yet to see a full-blown, feature-rich desktop blog editor that could post to most of the popular blogging engines that are out there.

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Comparing Linux Distributions - Final Results

http://blogs.ittoolbox.com

I have been experimenting with many different Linux distributions over the last month...In my review of the various distributions, I was looking for ease of install and ease of use as the most important factors in my personal ranking system.

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Preserving browser tab collections with Session Manager

http://www.linux.com

Firefox includes an option for bookmarking all open tabs, but heavy users of tabs will find that this option is hardly enough. When you are researching a subject, the particular combination of tabs matters as much as the individual ones -- and, besides, selecting the tabs to open individually can be tedious if you are dealing with several dozen.

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Use open source to build your own top-class online presence for nothing, part one

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Ok, not really nothing: it’ll cost you $9.99 for a domain name. But once you’ve got that, here’s how to build a dynamic and high-class online presence with free web hosting and the powerful open source blogging and content management system WordPress.

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Top 25 Linux Commands !

http://web2linux.blogspot.com

Perhaps your company is just switching to Linux, to save on costs. Or, maybe you’re starting University, and you have no idea how to get around the Linux Systems they’ve just installed. Or if you’re like me, you’re curious about how Linux works, and you have it installed at home.

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Run any GNU/Linux app on Windows without any virtualization

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com

SSH tools, long used by UNIX gurus to perform complicated administrative tasks over the internet on machines miles away, are a very simple and user-friendly solution for more conventional purposes. Ubuntu users, read on to learn how to use SSH to run your favorite GNU/Linux software on Microsoft Windows—without installing any software on the Windows box.

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Gimmix, graphical music player

http://ubuntuland.nireblog.com

Gimmix is a graphical music player daemon (MPD) client written in C using GTK+2. It's very simple and easy to use, yet offers many features to make your audio experience a pleasant one.

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