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Upgrading to Slackware 12.1

http://www.linux.com

Pat Volkerding and the Slackware team released the latest version of Slackware Linux, 12.1, on May 2. Even though it is a "point one" release, the list of new features reads like what other distributions would consider a major new version. Slackware 12.1 features the latest KDE 3.5.9, Xfce 4.4.2, and a number of improvements, especially to udev.

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Created by greengrass 13 years 51 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 51 weeks ago
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gNewSense 2.0 Released

http://fosswire.com

For those not already in the know, gNewSense is a distribution based upon Ubuntu. The aim of the distro is to strip Ubuntu of all non-free software components and offer a completely ‘pure’ free software distribution to those who wish for it. This new 2.0 release is based upon the recent Ubuntu Hardy Heron version, as the announcement states.

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Created by bluecheese 13 years 51 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 51 weeks ago
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Burn Your CDs and DVDs! K3b Review

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K3b is the KDE CD/DVD burner, capable of burning data CDs/DVDs, as well as CD/dvd ISO images, create audio CDs, rip audio CDs and video DVDs. Statistics show it is the favourite burning application of Linux users.

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Review: Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring

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Last month Mandriva announced its latest Spring edition. Despite a few minor glitches, after several weeks of testing the two Mandriva flavors, I have finally come across a distro that gives you the best of the GNU/Linux and proprietary worlds in terms of ease of use, range of software, and stability on hardware that ranges from old Celerons to newer multi-core machines.

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Created by snotbutter 13 years 52 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 51 weeks ago
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Common Lisp as an AI language

http://www.duckyblog.com

"Programming AI using standard programming languages, e.g., C/C++ or Java is not a good idea. It's too general purpose language. I'm considering to select between (Common) Lisp ..." -- Cool, but it's better on GNU systems ;-)

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Created by can.axis 13 years 52 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 52 weeks ago
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Anatomy of Linux flash file systems

http://www.ibm.com

You've probably heard of Journaling Flash File System (JFFS) and Yet Another Flash File System (YAFFS), but do you know what it means to have a file system that assumes an underlying flash device?

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Created by serdar 14 years 1 day ago – Made popular 14 years 23 hours ago
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How everyone wins with open source software

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Recently, I wrote a review of the note-taking application Tomboy. Though I find Tomboy exceptionally useful, I had a minor issue with the inability to create new notebooks from within a note. Within hours of the review appearing on Linux.com, Boyd Timothy, one of the app's developers mentioned in the article's comments that my idea had merit and said he would add the feature to an upcoming build.

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Created by extra 14 years 2 days ago – Made popular 14 years 1 day ago
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Reporting bugs the Debian way

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com

Following on from my recommendation for apt-buglist where you can see the reported bugs on a package before installing it I thought it might be useful to look at the other side of the coin, reporting bugs in Debian. The best way to do this is with the dedicated tool: reportbug.

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Created by tony 14 years 6 days ago – Made popular 14 years 5 days ago
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Fedora 9: Leading edge or bleeding edge?

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With Fedora 9, the Fedora project continues its tradition of being the most innovative major distribution, combining new applications from other distributions as well as its own inventions. However, in no other release has Fedora walked the line between leading edge and bleeding edge so precariously.

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Created by chimera 14 years 1 week ago – Made popular 14 years 1 week ago
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Web frameworks: a free software oriented study

http://www.mininglabs.com

"The web2.0 era has put the web application frameworks at the center of the free software community attention. Various opinions (1,2) and performance (1,2) comparisons have been published by free software enthusiasts trying to rank the quality and the potential of different web frameworks.

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Created by can.axis 14 years 2 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 1 week ago
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Kubuntu KDE4 Remix: An Ubuntu User's View

http://polimath.com

A long time Ubuntu user tries Kubuntu Linux 8.04 live CD with KDE 4.0 desktop and shares his experience.

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Created by JRepin 14 years 2 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 2 weeks ago
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Top Ten Apps I Install Immediately After the Ubuntu Linux Setup

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I got lots of emails from people asking me what are my favourite apps to install after I get a new Linux box up and running, so here they are:

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Created by greengrass 14 years 2 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 2 weeks ago
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Top 10 Linux Applications

http://lintut.50webs.org

Here's my top ten GUI (Graphical User Interface) applications for Linux, the ones I'm supposed to never live without (click on the screenshots to enlarge):

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Created by greengrass 14 years 2 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 2 weeks ago
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OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta on the Mac vs. NeoOffice 2.2.3

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OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta is now out, and available to download. It has been a long time coming now, and one of the big new features being trumpeted is native Mac support.

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Created by MBP2000 14 years 2 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 2 weeks ago
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KDE Software Installer - alternative package management for Kubuntu/Debian

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Adept is the graphical package management program included with Kubuntu, which is also available for Debian and other Linux distributions that use the apt package management system.

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