I really like many of the things KDE has to offer, however KDE's network manager applet (knetworkmanager) still is lacking compared to Gnome's applet.
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HOWTO: Use Gnome Network-Manager in other DEs
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Expected features in Fedora 13 Goddard
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boot.fedoraproject.org (BFO) is one of the unique features in Fedora. This effort by Fedora community hopes to completely remove DVD installations in long term.
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KDE PIM on Mobile – What’s going on?
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KDE PIM developers are working hard to get a personal information management stack based on KDE and Akonadi onto Maemo/MeeGo devices with the benefits and features that Kontact and the rest of KDE PIM brings desktop users today in stable versions of KDE PIM.
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Peppermint OS: A review
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What do you get when you combine the flexibility, versatility and ease of maintenance of Ubuntu, the blinding speed and simplicity of LXDE, and a focus on social media and the cloud?
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GNOBSD - A beginning
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GNOBSD is an OpenBSD-based operating system with a rather unique feature little seen in the UNIX world - a bootable live DVD with automatic hardware detection, very much akin to Linux distributions.
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NimbleX 2010 Beta Makes the Switch to KDE4
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After a couple of years of silence, a new version of NimbleX, a light-weight, Slackware-based Linux distribution is now available.
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Firefox gets a sexy new addons manager
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Mozilla continues to plug away at Firefox.next, and one area they've been working at is the add-on system.
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Tinycore Linux and "On Demand" Computing
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Tinycore is ... tiny: it's 10MB, which puts it right at the bottom of the "small Linux" distros. It's also very core. There are no apps. It boots to a minimal desktop (WM, built for Tinycore) with a small dock (Wbar), and nothing else.
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Firefox to gain Account Manager
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Mozilla has announced that its new Account Manager feature has graduated from being a Mozilla Labs project and that it will be included in a future release of its open source Firefox web browser
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An In-depth Look at Gentoo Linux
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Kernel News has an excellent article covering the ins and outs of running Gentoo Linux. Not sure why no one covers Gentoo Linux anymore, nice to see someone is covering this excellent Distribution.
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Your Virtual Desktops
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Remember when I asked you about how you used your virtual workspaces? Well, ever since then (yes, ever since last Friday. It seems like a long time) I've been doing my darndest to collate the data I received from you guys, and trying to decide what I thought of it all.
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Gedit: No more text-based editor for you
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I am partial to the Nano text based editor. For many users that editor (or one like it) is all they need. Because of the simplicity of the tools, why slow down your work with a GUI right? But for some, those GUI-less editors are a big turn off.
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A Future Opening
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As I look through DistroWatch's list, I see a trend. The top ten at the moment are: Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint, OpenSuSE, Mandriva, Debian, PCLinuxOS, Sabayon, Arch, and MEPIS. Strangely, we find two relatively non-n00b distributions in there...
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Firefox 3.7a5pre: Tabs on Top, New Add-on Manager
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"Firefox 3.7a5pre now has an option to place the browser's tabs on top of the controls, similar to Google Chrome. This is likely part of Mozilla's plans to redesign Firefox for version 4." ... "Firefox 3.7a5pre handles the Add-ons window differently, as it opens in a new tab rather than a new window.
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At some point, nearly unnoticed, Midori 0.2.4 slipped through to repositories everywhere. I know what you're thinking, "Who cares about a 6 week old partial release? Lucid Lynx comes out in less than two days!" Well, I think Midori ought to find a home on your new install.
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