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Five ways to ease migration from Windows to Linux

http://www.ghacks.net

In this brief series (if two articles can be considered a series) I will help ease the migration from both Windows to Linux and Mac to Linux. Hopefully, upon reading these articles, you will have a good game plan so your migration (or your users migration) will be as seamless as possible.

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OpenInkpot: free software for e-book readers

http://lwn.net

OpenInkpot (or OI) intends to be a full alternative, free software stack for e-ink based readers. It comes with a "bookshelf" menu to handle your collection of e-books and brings the popular FBReader and Cool Reader to display most e-book formats, among them epub, fb2, txt, html, rtf, pdb, plucker and mobipocket.

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WikiReader: OpenMoko's "Project B"

http://lwn.net

Today, with the greatest of pleasure, I am ready to share with you the birth of our third product -- WikiReader. Three simple buttons put three million Wikipedia articles in the palm of your hand.

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10 Sweet GIMP Photo Editing Tricks to Wean You Off Photoshop

http://www.maximumpc.com

At $700 for a piece of software, Photoshop's MSRP hardly needs put into perspective. In short, it's expensive. Don't worry if you don't have a handful of Benjamins lying around. Thankfully, you can perform a lot of the same photo editing tricks for free with GIMP.

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0 A.D. Promises Real Gaming for Ubuntu

http://www.workswithu.com

And now a brief break from business-oriented coverage on WorksWithU. As a history Ph.D. student by day and free-software geek by night, I find that my poles of interest rarely converge.  That's why I was so excited when the real-time historical strategy game 0 A.D.

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7 Reasons Why I Have NOT Switched To Google Chrome

http://pthree.org

I just finished reading 7 Reasons Why I Switched to Google Chrome from Firefox. I found the article a bit on the fanboy side, and I’ll address each of his points here, while also saying my reasons why I’m still holding on to the Firefox browser as my default browser.

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Performous: A Challenging and Fun Karaoke Software for Linux

http://www.junauza.com

I found another cool and fun karaoke software for Linux that I would like to share to everyone. It is called Performous and it's so far one of the best karaoke program that I've tried.

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Tech Tip: Automaticaly Organize Your Photos by Date

http://www.linuxjournal.com

Now that summer is over and your digital camera is full of pictures, how do you get them organized? At the command line of course! The script provided here automatically organizes them into sub-directories by date.

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Designing labels and cards with scribus

http://blog.worldlabel.com

Designing labels & cards is a straightforward process with Scribus: you import the proper template, lay out one label the way you want it, then duplicate your creation to fill the rest of the slots on the template. To get the best results, however, you will need to make use of some specific features: layers, text styles, and more.

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Recover deleted files in linux with Photorec

http://www.unixmen.com

PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures

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KDE 4.3: Boom baby!

http://celettu.wordpress.com

I’ve blogged about KDE 4 before, gradually noticing the improvement, but ultimately always running back to Openbox for various reasons.

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Zeya: Bring your music anywhere (HTMLv5-based music server) Version 0.2

http://web.psung.name

Zeya is a streaming music server that brings your music to any computer with a web browser. It reads your music library, lets you browse your files, and streams them on demand.

The client runs entirely in the browser using the HTML 5 draft standard technologies— no Flash needed! No Silverlight, no applets, no plugins, no external players.

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A Brief Look At Yoper 2009

http://www.phoronix.com

Yoper dates back to 2003, and one of their goals is to be the fastest out-of-the-box Linux distribution, but there has not been a new stable release in 28 months. The new release for this distribution is Yoper 2009 Beta 1 "Dresden" and ships with all of the latest Linux packages.

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Gentoo-based distro rev'd to version 5.0

http://www.desktoplinux.com

The Italy-based Sabayon community released a stable version 5.0 of its Gentoo-based Linux distribution. Sabayon Linux 5.0 is available in separate editions with either the GNOME 2.26 or KDE 4.3.1 desktops, and moves up to Linux kernel 2.6.31, XBMC 9.04.1, and the Ext4 filesystem.

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Warzone 2100: Free Single And Multi-Player Real-Time Strategy Game

http://webupd8.blogspot.com

Warzone 2100 is a free, real-time strategy and real-time tactics hybrid computer game for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX which offers campaign, tutorial, multi-player and single-player skirmish game modes, unit designer, unit experience system, and everything you would expect from a modern RTS game.

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