I swear, a colleague of mine prided himself on filling every square inch of a slide with just text. It drove me nuts. How about video clips?"
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Free Book Review: Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference
Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference is a free book written by Keir Thomas, the well-known author of Beginning Ubuntu Linux and co-author of Ubuntu Kung Fu, two popular books about Ubuntu Linux. His latest book is called Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference and it is available as a free PDF download from the official website, or as print edition from Amazon.com for USD 11,99.
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First Look: KDE 4.3.0 - A smooth desktop experience
On the 4th of August, 2009, the KDE community released KDE 4.3.0, delivering its user base the first iteration of this next-generation KDE desktop environment. It boasts a modern and beautiful desktop, with over 10,000 bugs fixed and close to 2,000 features implemented over the older versions.
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Exploring Ubuntu Recovery Mode
Today, I did a fresh installation of Ubuntu 9.04 inside virtual box. My original idea was to play with sudoers and sudo command. I edited /etc/sudoers and logged out. Next time I tried to sudo , I go some parse error in /etc/sudoers. I was stuck . I needed sudo for modifying the file. But sudo was preventing me because of the error.
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Screen : 10 Window Settings
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Fall In Love With Ardour's Digital Audio Workstation
Ardour is a digital audio workstation that's designed for musicians, podcasters, voice actors, editors, and anyone who needs full-blown professional software with all the bells and whistles.
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Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 9.04
Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, virtual hosts, authentication, on the fly encoding, load balancing, Apache compatible log files, and much more.
Read more »Slackware 13.0 RC2 Brings Updated X Server and Video Drivers
A few hours ago Slackware's creator, Patrick Volkerding, announced that the second release candidate of the upcoming Slackware 13.0 Linux distribution was available for download.
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Tiny Core: The Little Distro That Could
The way we use computers is changing, but Linux isn’t standing still. Tiny Core is a minimal Linux distribution that boots a complete live system for every day use. Its foundation and unique approach to the desktop helps it achieve certain goals like preventing system rot and ensuring your system is fresh every time it boots.
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Earcandy has a truly promising future ahead
Earcandy is one of those applications that slowly grows on you. It is a smart little volume manager for PulseAudio. You need to try it out for yourself to know how useful it really is.
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How to Set Special Window Settings with KWin
With the release of KDE 4, the developers added 3D desktop effects, but they also carried over many customization features from KDE 3. Here are some of the window-specific settings that you can use in KWin.
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Review: SimplyMepis 8.0
SimplyMepis, or Mepis for short, is a distribution targeted towards new users that has the intended goal of providing a good distribution that is easy to use. Version 7.0, which was my first experience with Mepis was pretty good. But past success means little if the newer version doesn't deliver. So let's see how SimplyMepis 8 does.
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Ubuntu's Karmic Koala: What to expect
Scheduled for release in October, Ubuntu 9.10 is perhaps the most important release to date for the community-driven Linux project.
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Video Demo of the New KDE 4.3
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Hands-on: KDE 4.3 delivers a Social Desktop
KDE 4.3 was released this week with a number of intriguing improvements. Ars test the new version, which introduces KDE's Social Desktop initiative, an effort to bring social networking integration to the popular desktop environment.
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