Fortunately modern Linux distributions have much better fonts and font tools available. From font creation/editing to font management, there are plenty of outstanding applications to help you in your quest for font nirvana.
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Manage your fonts in Linux with Fonty Python
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Sabayon and Gnome Shell
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This is my first look at gnome shell. I guess this is going to be the big thing for gnome when gnome 3 comes out in 2010. Gnome shell is in it’s early stages yet, but I miss having the ability to place things on the panel.
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5 Essential Linux Apps for Guitarists
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Linux is often overlooked when it comes to music production. For a long time, there were good reasons for that. The complicated sound system, lack of professional-quality software, and limited hardware compatibility have all contributed toward a bad reputation for Linux when it comes to quality audio tools.
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Comix: A Digital Comic Book Reader for Linux
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For comic book addicts, here's a Linux application that you should get. Its name is Comix, and it’s an easy-to-use and intuitive image viewer that is specially designed to view digital comic books.
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Recycle Old Desktop PCs With Linux
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As more and more computers find their way to the garbage, we generate e-waste. Everyday the e-waste heap grows, and many of the computers within can be re-purposed and recycled.
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digiKam approaches 1.0
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Digital photographs can be something of a pain. With the storage capacities available today, it is easy to take thousands of pictures, with no regard for the cost.
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Extend OpenOffice.org with Toolbars
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OpenOffice.org has risen to quite a place of prominence among office workers, home users, students, and just about every category in between. Why?
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New UI for OpenOffice.org? When?
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I know some of you read the title and thought “Oh cool! I'm dying for a new user interface (UI). When will it finally be ready?” At the same time, some of you thought “Nooooooo! I like the UI already, even if there are a few little things here and there that annoy me. I wish they would stop this talk of a new UI.”
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13 Linux lethal commands
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In this post I will collect all commands which SHOULD NEVER be executed in Linux. Any of them will cause data loss or corruption, can freeze or hang up running system. NEVER RUN THESE COMMANDS IN LINUX BOX CLI! Even if somebody advises you in forum/im to do it.
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Linux Operating System – Things I’ve Learned About This System Over the Years
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"The system includes a full office suite, e-mail program, web browser, audio and video programs, graphics programs, photo software, CD/DVD software etc. Also, there are many different types of the software mentioned to pick and choose from. I’ve seen lists of over 20,000 different software packages to choose from..
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Tryad: Making Music The Open Source Way
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Free and Open Source software has been attributed to many things, such as applications, operating systems, books, and even beer. How would music be if it was developed by following the open source methodology?
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51 Open Source Tools to Protect Your Identity
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...we've compiled a list of 51 open source apps that can help protect your identity. Some of these fit into traditional security categories, like anti-spam, anti-virus, and firewalls. Others, like browsers, e-mail, and PDF tools, we've included in this list because they include encryption or other security features that can help you protect yourself.
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Audacity 1.3.10 Beta
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Audacity 1.3.10 Beta is released. Audacity is open source software for recording and editing sounds.
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KDE 4.3.4 Available for Kubuntu 9.10 Users
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Last evening, the KDE community proudly launched the fourth maintenance version of the KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC) 4.3. Dubbed Cold, the brand-new KDE 4.3.4 software suite brings a couple of improvements to the Okular, Marble and KGpg applications, and bug fixes...
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