I thought I would just say WOW! There are little touches in Karmic that just make me think why wasn't this in before.
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GNUzilla Firefox 3.5.3 released
«This new version includes all the bug fixes present in Firefox 3.5.3.
New files are available for download here: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/3.5.3/ »
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Gnome Shell – Your Next Desktop Environment
There’s been some grumbling among the Gnome community about if and when Gnome would have a major overhaul. Well with Gnome 3 we’ll have it in the form of Gnome Shell. It pretty much replaces the panel and window manager in a normal Gnome installation with a fully composited environment with some great new functionality.
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Lubuntu: Floats Like a Butterfly, Stings Like a Bee
Some complain that there is simply too much choice in the free software world and far too many Linux distributions. Well, now there’s another called Lubuntu. A derivative of Ubuntu with the LXDE desktop, it’s super light and very fast. Finally, there’s an Ubuntu perfectly suited to those older, low end machines!
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Openbox: A fun and lightweight window manager
I am always on the lookout for a new way of doing things when it comes to personal computing, and one of the best ways to do so is to experiment with different window managers for Linux.
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Using Vte Terminal Emulating Widget
Here is a sample code for using VTE Terminal Emulating widget. Vte terminal widget of GTK can be used to embed a terminal in your GTK program. Vte widget is used in many projects like the Synaptic package manager to shown package installation's terminal output.Also, much of GNOME Terminal's functionality is provided by the VTE widget. Here is how you can start using the widget
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Using GDB with Emacs
People starting to program with GNU/Linux often asks whether there exist a good IDE in GNU/Linux world. Well, there are; like the Eclipse, nothing comes in front of Emacs. Here is how GDB (GNU Debugger) can be used with Emacs.
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sK1 Ubuntu Repository (Vector Graphics Editor For Linux)
A few months ago I was telling you about sK1, an open source vector graphics editor similar to CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator, or Freehand. At the time, you had to compile it, but now (actually it exists for quite some time, but I wasn't aware of it) there is an Ubuntu repository from where you can install the latest version.
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Switch distributions – Keep your files & settings
I have been a GNU/Linux user for a year now, and in this time I changed 4-5 distributions. In this process, even when reinstalling the same distro, I wasn’t aware that I could keep the settings and configurations of my applications. The secret is the /home folder, where the GNU/Linux Operating Systems keep the data of the user, the configuration files of the applications installed and much more.
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The Ultimate Blogging Client for Linux
Ever since i started a blog i had always wanted a wanted a application which would allow me do my blogging (preferably offline ) without having to use the web browser. One of the reasons for this was because i (as at then) did not have a stable Internet connection and had to go to Internet cafe to do my blogging which wasn’t really convenient.
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Will GIMP 2.8 come in a single window mode?
There is an interesting message of Martin Nordholts, one of the core developers of GIMP, in the official mailing list about GIMP 2.8 being shipped in a single window mode.
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uzbl: a browser that adheres to the unix philosophy
Like Vimperator for Firefox? Want something a bit smaller? Easier to config from plain text files? Well meet Uzbl.
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What is going on with Ubuntu anyway?
I titled this similarly to my previous post about PCLinuxOS. Why, because I would like to take a crack at 'identifying' Ubuntu in order to give potential users an idea of what it is and who it appeals to. If you came here looking for a sharp criticism of Ubuntu, this ain't it.
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Preview: GIMP 2.8 - the new features
Most probably, GIMP 2.8 will yet be released 2009, so it has been time to have a look at the current developer version. Though GIMP 2.8 doesn't bring revolutionary things like non-destructive image editing, there are some features you will like.
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Founding CEO of TurboLinux No Longer at TurboLinux
Cliff Miller from TurboLinux is now at DeviceVM; a snapshot of what TurboLinux is currently up to
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