"For those of you that write, or wish you wrote, or otherwise procrastinate while performing text-based activities, try out write-or-die [...] However, I use emacs; and switching from my carefully-tuned text-editor extraordinaire to a javascript-based text-box is a bit of a disappointment.
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Rock-solid Fedora 10 brings salvation to Ubuntu weary
Fedora might not be getting a complete makeover or flashy new features in version 10, out today, but some welcome enhancements under-the-hood make this a worthwhile upgrade.
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Installing And Configuring ntop
This is a tool to collect the network information with simple configurations. Users may use the web browser to access the current network views that include charts and statistics.
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Better Firefox in KDE4
Well I simply love KDE4 but one thing that really annoyed me was the way firefox looked in KDE4 and so after googling a bit I found some simple solutions to make firefox look more Kde4ish.
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Photo Management on Linux - Part 1
This coming Thursday is Thanksgiving in America. As I have yet to make any progress in convincing the Swiss to also make it a holiday, and we tend to have rather large Thanksgiving dinner gatherings, we generally have our celebration the weekend before or after the actual day.
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KDE 4.2 Beta 1 Provides First Look at Upcoming User Experience
KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of "Caterpillar", (a.k.a KDE 4.2 Beta 1), the first testing release of the new KDE 4.2 desktop. Caterpillar is aimed at testers and reviewers. It should provide a solid ground to report bugs that need to be tackled before KDE 4.2.0 is released. Reviewers can use this beta to get a first look at the upcoming KDE 4.2 desktop which provides significant improvements all over the desktop and applications.
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Fedora 10 proves infrastructure matter
Glancing at the features list for Fedora 10, at first you might be unimpressed. Many of the features are basically infrastructure improvements, fixing known problems and enhancing performance while laying the groundwork for future developments.
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Effective Emacs
A must read from Steve Yegge, published Jan 23, 2005, last update, Mar 12, 2006 ;-)
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Fedora 10: the GNU/Linux Desktop Steps Forward
Any release of a GNU/Linux distribution marks a milestone in a continuous cycle of software development. However, Fedora 10 promises to be a larger milestone than most, both for its development community and users, according to Paul W. Frields, the Fedora leader and chair.
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gNewSense on the Aspire 6930G
"I recently wrote about the Aspire 6930G and how it runs very well under the latest Ubuntu release. In an effort to find out whether I could run this laptop with 100% Free Software I decided to give gNewSense a test run on it..."
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Ubuntu vs. OpenSolaris vs. FreeBSD Benchmarks
Over the past few weeks we have been providing several in-depth articles looking at the performance of Ubuntu Linux.
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Force a clean reboot when the system freezes
If you manage to freeze your system in such a way that even Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn’t work anymore, the mouse is stuck on the screen any none of the key combinations will work, don’t think of the reset button just yet.
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Midori - a Lightweight WebKit Browser for Linux
There are a couple of others (Konqueror, Epiphany), but the primary open source browser that you’re likely to be using on Linux is Firefox. Now don’t get me wrong, Firefox is great for a lot of things. It is endlessly customisable and has ubiquitous support from website developers. It does have disadvantages too, however, including not exactly being the quickest beast out there.
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FUSBi (the Free USB Installer) 0.3.1 released!
FUSBi, the Free USB Installer, is a nifty, little application that creates bootable images of free GNU/Linux distributions on USB drives (or hdd if you want).
FUSBi supports all of the GNU/Linux distros recognized as free by the Free Software Foundation. These include gNewSense, UTUTO, Dynebolic, Musix GNU+Linux, BLAG and GNUstep.
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5 Reasons I Like Linux (And 5 Why I Dislike It)
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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