I was user of nvidia video card and I was happy to use it in F7 and F8 but unfortunately I replaced that card with a newer one. That time the card was ATI. Of course I did not check if that card is supported in Fedora 9 (I have to blame myself) and just took it. Recently I noticed the news about that how "open" ATI would be in the future. And now I experience their "openness" with my computer.
Read more »The lack of quality video drivers is destroying Fedora
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Emacs: now with built-in daemon
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"Emacs CVS has an interesting new feature: it now accepts a --daemon command line option which makes it start up as a Unix daemon; it detaches from the controlling terminal, starts up a new process session, goes to the background, starts an Emacs server and just waits for connections.
Read more »GnuCash 2.2.7 released
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«The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.2.7 aka "Dates'n'Prices", the seventh bug fix release in a series of stable releases of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software...»
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Tip: Easily Enable Syntax Highlighting in Nano Editor
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Nano is one of the most lightweight and user-friendly text editors for command-line. For those who prefer to edit C, Bash, Python or other source files using Nano instead of an advanced IDE like Emacs or Vim, enabling syntax highlighting is probably a must-have.
Read more »GNU IceCat-3.0.2-g1 released
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«Hello!
I am pleased to announce the new 3.0.2-g1 version for the GNU IceCat web browser, based on the latest Mozilla Firefox 3.0.2 source code.»
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13 Terminal Emulators for Linux
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10 Command-Line Applications I Use in Debian and Ubuntu
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In this article I'll briefly review ten of my favourite CLI (command-line interface), not necessarily the most popular or most powerful of them. So if you don't find your personal favourite, (e.g. Midnight Commander or mp3blaster), it's because the article includes the tools I use more often. So here it goes:
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Asus Eee PC 1000 Plus Ubuntu: Big Power in a Small Package
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The original Asus Eee PC was the spark that ignited a forest fire of sub-mini notebooks from second tier providers to high end players like HP and Dell. Asus did so well with the original Eee PC they decided to release other models with similar design goals but minor tweaks of the hardware specs.
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OpenOffice.org 3.0 Promises New Life for Office Software
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OpenOffice.org is in an unenviable place. Office suites -- word processors, spreadsheets, presentations and the ilk -- are utilitarian, complex bundles of software. They are a necessity of modern life, used daily by individuals and businesses all over the world.
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Quickly encrypt and decrypt files with GPG
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Need to quickly encrypt a file or an archive? You can do this using the GPG encryption software which is installed by default on many mainstream Linux distributions.
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The sweet features of Fedora - Smolt
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One of the things that many people buying new computer or other hardware consider is the hardware compatibility with GNU/Linux. Actually many people do not even think about that. They just go to the shop, buy something that they liked and after that go home and install some distribution.
Read more »Compiling C/C++ Code in Ubuntu and Available IDEs
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In this article I'll give a few explanations on how to compile software for studying purposes on Linux (and particularly Ubuntu), what are the most common ways, what I consider to be the most effective method and which are the most popular applications to use for programming in those languages.
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IRC Clients for Linux Part 2: List of 5 CLI Clients
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A while ago I reviewed 6 GUI clients for IRC, so today I'll continue with the second part with this review of 5 CLI (Command Line Interface) clients.
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10 things Linux does better than Windows
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If you tallied up the strengths and weaknesses of Linux and Windows, which OS would come out ahead? According to Jack Wallen, superiority in security, flexibility, interoperability, community, and command-line power (among other things) put Linux well ahead. See if you agree with his assessment.
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GIMP 2.5.4 released / GIMP 2.6.0 release still in September
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"GIMP 2.5.4, the probably last preview version before the big GIMP 2.6.0 release, has been released. As you can read in the announcement, GIMP 2.6 shall follow still in September, only a few bugs have to be fixed yet..."
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