Ubuntu has once again opened up a call for submissions to anyone interested in being a part of the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase. If you're a musician, artist, photographer, or all-around creative genius and would like to enter your work in the current competition, you've got until February 9, 2009 to submit something to the judges.
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Go-OO: The best office suite you never knew you used
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If you run Ubuntu, openSUSE, Debian, or Mandriva, among other distributions, then whenever you run OpenOffice.org you don't run the "official" version, but rather Go-OO, an office suite based on the OpenOffice.org source code. Go-OO includes enhancements and functions that haven't been accepted by Sun, and that may never be, because of licensing, business, or other reasons.
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Why Ubuntu and Too Much Trust Can Be Bad
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One of desktop Linux’s chief selling points is its near-immunity to malware. Whether this superiority is due to the Unix security measures that Windows lacks, or to the mere fact that comparatively few people use Linux on desktop computers, it makes Linux attractive in an era when all manner of nasty things can be done to computer users by exploiting bugs in the software they run.
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Full Circle Magazine Issue 19 November 2008
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Download Full Circle Magazine Issue 19
How To : Create WiFi Acces Point.
Have you ever needed a temporary WiFi acces point (AP), or just needed something until you can go out and buy one? This how-to should let you create one in a pinch. First, make sure that Your Wi-Fi card is well supported!
How To : Using GIMP Part 8.
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One of the first things I do for my desktops is set them with a static IP. Below is how I go about it.
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Newly Discovered Kernel Vulnerabilities Affect All Ubuntu Users
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On November 27th, the Ubuntu developers announced the availability of a major security update for the following Ubuntu distributions: 6.06 LTS, 7.10, 8.04 LTS and 8.10 (also applies to Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu).
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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #119
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Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase II, Archive of Interviews, New MOTU: Onkar Shinde, Ubuntu Tamil Team, Ubuntu Tunisia Team, Ubuntu-NL release party, Launchpad 2/1/11 and Open ID Support, RSS feeds for Ubuntu Forums, Ubuntu Podcast #13, Full Circle Magazine #19, Community Interview of Nicolas Scerpella, Hardening the Linux Desktop, Coming Soon: Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference, 50 amazing Ubunt time-
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How to install Firefox 3.1b2 in Ubuntu (from repo)
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Go to System > Administration > Software Sources, to the Third-Party Software tab and add this repository:
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Ubuntu vs. OpenSolaris vs. FreeBSD Benchmarks
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Over the past few weeks we have been providing several in-depth articles looking at the performance of Ubuntu Linux.
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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #118
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #118 for the week November 16th - November 22nd, 2008.
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How To Configure A Ubuntu PPTP VPN Client
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As a Linux user and an telecommuting employee one of my biggest challenges was configuring the VPN Client to connecct to my employer's VPN server so I had access to the Knowledge Base as well as all other Internet services:
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5 Reasons I Like Linux (And 5 Why I Dislike It)
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I wrote this because these things just came into my mind today while I was reading about the impending “Hardy Heron” release related things and saw that there is a lot of FUD being spread still. So, thought of jotting down my likes/dislikes and not making it a linux v/s windows campaign.
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Ubuntu Linux Install Week at AIS Picture
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It all started at the beginning of last week. I wanted my 11th and 12th Grade ICT students to start using Ubuntu Linux on their laptops/netbooks at the beginning of the second quarter. I knew it would take me nearly two weeks to get them working Ubuntu Linux systems on their laptops or netbooks...
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Attack Of The Ubuntu Forks
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Every time there is a new Linux distro that is making a lot of noise in the Linux community, it is just waiting to be forked by someone. Most of these forks are cosmetic in nature and are generally design improvements of user interface and sometimes adding packages not installed by default or removing few not used by many
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Dell’s Linux Ads: Microsoft’s Nightmare Before Christmas?
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For at least the third time in recent weeks, prominent Dell newspaper advertisements feature the Inspiron Mini 9 Netbook running Canonical’s Ubuntu 8.04 (that’s a small Linux notebook, folks). The VAR Guy hears Microsoft “has gone postal” over the Linux notebook ads. You might even say this is Microsoft’s nightmare before Christmas. Here’s the complete scoop.
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