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7 Reasons to Pick Ubuntu and When Not to Choose It

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I guess most of the readers are already familiar with Ubuntu, but I'm also writing this for new users, which use Linux for the first time. I use Debian for over a year now, but I used both Ubuntu and Kubuntu in the past (especially Dapper Drake and Edgy Eft) and also 8.04 and 8.10 Beta.

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Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 updated

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"The Debian project is pleased to announce the fifth update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codename etch). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustment to serious problems.

Please note that this update does not constitute a new version of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 but only updates some of the packages included..."

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Challenge to all users

http://planet.gentoo.org

"Have you ever been thinking about how you could contribute to Gentoo? Here's a quick and easy way..."

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Battle for Wesnoth from the Libregamewiki, the Free Gaming Encyclopedia

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Battle for Wesnoth, or simply Wesnoth, is a fantasy themed 2D turn-based strategy game started by David White in June 2003. The game is coded in C++ and licensed, including the media, under the GPL.

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Distribution Release: Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5r2

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DistroWatch: « Alan Baghumian has announced the availability of the second revision of Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5, a desktop distribution and live CD based on Debian's testing branch: ... »

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3 Notes-Taking Applications for Linux: BasKet, Tomboy and KNotes

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This is a review of three of the most popular notes-taking applications for Linux: BasKet, Tomboy and KNotes. I included the screenshots below the reviews, at the end of the article.

BasKet
In my opinion, this is the most powerful and beautiful notes application I've ever seen. The last stable version is 1.0.3.1 for KDE3, but a port is in the works for KDE4 too.

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Dillo 2.0 Gets Tabbed Browsing

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Dillo, the famous little browser used in small, lightweight distributions like Damn Small Linux (DSL), reached version 2.0 on October 14, 2008.

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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #113

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #113 for the week October 12th - October 18th, 2008.

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Linux games - First Person Shooters - Part Deux

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In the last article, we have reviewed three excellent First Person Shooters (FPS) - OpenArena, Sauerbraten and Nexuiz ............Today, we'll talk about games where you play as a human - against other humans. Our two candidates are AssaultCube and Urban Terror.

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Mount CD/DVD Images (ISO/BIN/NRG) Using AcetoneISO2 in Debian and Ubuntu

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AcetoneISO is a graphical application written in Qt4 which lets you mount CD/DVD images easily. The formats supported are ISO, NRG, MDF, BIN and IMG. It does not come in Debian's repositories, but I will show you how to easily install, run and start to use it.

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Songbird 0.7.0 - Audio Player for Linux

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I'll start with a quote from the official Songbird homepage, which goes like 'Songbird promises to be the Firefox of media players'. Although not (yet) as popular in the audio players world as Firefox is in the one of web browsers, Songbird looks and offers an interface which integrates both powerful browsing features and music collection management.

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Dillo-2.0 has been released!

http://www.dillo.org

"Today, after a long period of inactivity, a new release was made. It's being a long way and this dillo-2.0 release comes with a boat load of improvements..."

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Rufscript: New Free font in handwriting style

http://hiran.in

Hiran has just released a new GPL 3 font-exception licensed font called Rufscript. It's a handwriting font that would be really useful for comic strips and maybe labeling photos for a scrapbook and made completely with Free Software toolchain : GIMP, Inkscape, Font Forge. This font is a birthday present to his classmate Lithu.

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Tweak Your Font Rendering for Better Appearance

http://tombuntu.com

Everyone has their preference on how they think fonts should be rendered. If you're not happy with the appearance of fonts on your system there are a few easy tweaks to try for better rendering.

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Emacs 22 Command Index (sorted by Category)

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"I could not find an Emacs command reference arranged by category so I wrote a Python script to create one. Here is the original index sorted by command name. Below is the index sorted by category..."

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