As I look through DistroWatch's list, I see a trend. The top ten at the moment are: Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint, OpenSuSE, Mandriva, Debian, PCLinuxOS, Sabayon, Arch, and MEPIS. Strangely, we find two relatively non-n00b distributions in there...
Read more »A Future Opening
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Firefox 3.7a5pre: Tabs on Top, New Add-on Manager
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"Firefox 3.7a5pre now has an option to place the browser's tabs on top of the controls, similar to Google Chrome. This is likely part of Mozilla's plans to redesign Firefox for version 4." ... "Firefox 3.7a5pre handles the Add-ons window differently, as it opens in a new tab rather than a new window.
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At some point, nearly unnoticed, Midori 0.2.4 slipped through to repositories everywhere. I know what you're thinking, "Who cares about a 6 week old partial release? Lucid Lynx comes out in less than two days!" Well, I think Midori ought to find a home on your new install.
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Ubuntu 10.04 swap update: It's not an Xorg bug but too much 'swappiness' — and it's easily fixed
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My particular Ubuntu 10.04 LTS installation is not suffering from the Xorg memory leak. So what's my increased use of swap all about? I don't know if it's beneficial or not to have so much swapping going on, but a couple of readers have told me that Ubuntu's "swappiness" is set to a level of 60, which is optimal for servers.
Read more »Fight Image Spam With FuzzyOCR And SpamAssassin On Debian Lenny
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This tutorial describes how to scan emails for image spam with FuzzyOCR on a Debian Lenny server. FuzzyOCR is a plugin for SpamAssassin which is aimed at unsolicited bulk mail containing images as the main content carrier. Using different methods, it analyzes the content and properties of images to distinguish between normal mails (ham) and spam mails.
Read more »Wubi Installer and the Ubiquitous Ubuntu
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Wubi, the famous Windows Ubuntu installer, is probably one of the reasons why Ubuntu is the most popular Linux desktop distro, at least among Windows users.
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FreeBSD 8.1 Release Date: 9 July 2010
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Ken Smith wrote to the freebsd-stable mailing list that FreeBSD 8.1 is scheduled to be released on 9 July 2010:
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gNewSense: Libre GNU/Linux OS
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In the open source world, there are two kinds of freedom. There is software that is free as in beer, a mysterious phrase that relates to something which costs no money. Less common, though, is software that fits the second type of freedom, "free as in speech".
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gThumb: The Free Software IrfanView
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"... for a while now, I've been asked the same question on many occasions, a question I did not previously have a good answer to, "Can I use IrfanView with Debian [Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.]".
Read more »Ubuntu 10.10 Will Get A Global Menu By Default
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Mark Shuttleworth announced today that Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" Netbook Edition will come with a global menu. He also states that ONLY the Ubuntu Netbook Edition will get the Global Menu. Read on!
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Processing 10000 Pictures Using Many Computers With Oropo (Debian/Ubuntu)
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Have you ever had a lot of data to process? In such a moment after a while of processing we realize that it will take ages to complete. It would be faster if we could use two or three or even more computers. Let's use some computers - you think it is a lot of configuration? You are wrong. With Oropo it's easy. Let's discuss a problem of processing large number of pictures.
Read more »Linux NetworkManager a Solid Tool with New Features
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Applications like Firefox and OpenOffice.org get all the glory. They're highly visible as cornerstone applications of the free desktop. But what about the background apps that do the grunt work and sit silently in the background, ignored unless we run into a bug?
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VLC media player version 1.0.6 release - vulnerabilities removed, stability improved
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The developers discovered several vulnerabilities in the VLC media player while working on the code for the upcoming version 1.1.0. Version 1.0.6 also offers improved stability
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Songbird gets forked after stopping Linux support.
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Recently, a number of blogs have covered the bad news about Songbird development team halting Linux support for the Songbird music player. The good news is: The project has already been forked.
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Configure apt-get to work behind a proxy in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx
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How to apply apt-get update or install in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx ? I was behind a proxy server and after installing Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid lynx i coulden`t update or install anything using the apt-get command.
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