GNU/Linux based Open Source Operating Systems are right now and have been for a while ready to become the mainstream software of choice used daily by billions of people. As I see it we are currently on the verge of a major revolution in Personal Computers primarily in regards to the software everyone uses without thinking about it
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Issue 19 of Free Software Magazine is out
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Issue 19 of Free Software Magazine is out, and so are another 18 fantastic articles. Tony Mobily opens the magazine with his editorial on file formats. Andrew Min and Gary Richmond join forces to provide useful tips&tricks, while Robin Monks reviews some of the best free software media players.
Read more »Linux Gamers’ Game List
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Finding good Linux games, whether they’re community built or commercial offerings, isn’t always that easy and that’s why icclus.org maintain a Linux Gamers’ Game List. It has 371 games listed at the time of writing.
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Where can I download a free firewall?
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Free firewalls have become very common and represent an excellent alternative to commercial firewall packages. Most of these firewalls run under some form of Linux, FreeBSD, or OpenBSD. Many of these free firewalls are front-ends for lower-level firewall packages such as pf, iptables, and ipchains.
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Ten Reasons To Dump Windows [III]
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I’d like to invite you to read the last of three articles from the “Dump Windows” saga of writings. Two previous articles (part I, part II) stirred up quite a controversy and a variety of opinions. With this article I’m hoping for calmer and more meritorious responses.
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Windows vs Ubuntu - why switch?
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I want to re-install my work PC - get rid of Windows and install Ubuntu. Here’s why…
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Xara Xtreme - a Test Drive
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Xara Xtreme is a graphics drawing application which has been available on the Linux desktop for about a year now. But I just now got around to trying it. For the obvious reason, and I'm sure many of you familiar with graphics on Linux would concur, that I didn't think yet another vector graphics editor was anything to jump out of my chair for.
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More Music to your Ears
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In a continuation of my last post, I’m going to check out a few more music players. Again, these are development versions, and they might be different from the current stable versions.
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Unix/Linux Command Cheat Sheet
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In an attempt to find a good Unix reference for you FOSSwire readers, I was unsuccessful at finding a decent one on the Internet. So, why not make one?
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Securely Delete Files in Linux
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It used to be that only paranoids cared a whit about shredding their data—or their office paperwork, for that matter. But these days, there really are people out there just waiting for you to slip up and expose your private data. Fortunately, if you're running Linux, deleting sensitive information is fast and easy with the 'shred' utility.
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Review: SuperGamerVL
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SuperGamerVL (aka SuperGamer3) is the next generation in Linux gaming live dvd's that aims to bring the fun of Linux gaming to a PC near you and help Linux geeks everywhere demonstrate to their friends that Linux really is fun and can be used for gaming. And they can do all this without installing Linux.
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The $139 Linux PC
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I wonder if these people realize they can buy a brand new computer for $139. Granted the hardware is a bit dated by today’s standards but it’s probably light years ahead of what they are running Windows ‘98 on.
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All the questions you may have about Thunderbird, answered by Mitchell Baker - Standblog
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"...Mitchell has put together several posts on her blog to answer questions that the community may have. I've digested them below. Enjoy....
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From Fedora, through Ubuntu and Slackware, getting close to ZenWalk
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In the "if it ain't broke, then why the hell are you fixing it?" department, maybe I should refocus my energies on Debian and not worry so much about Fedora/Red Hat. But there's something about Fedora/RHEL that is calling to me.
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Portrait of a Linux iPhone-killer wannabe
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In the race to be the first "iPhone killer," the most unlikely but perhaps most intriguing candidate is based on a new Linux platform with the peculiar name OpenMoko.
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