Despite all the talk about the mythical Year of the Linux Desktop, somewhere in the last few years, free software passed a milestone without anyone noticing. At some point, after years of struggling to rival proprietary desktops, both GNOME and KDE have caught up in features and narrowed the gap in usability. We are now at a point where free software is often an innovator on the desktop.
Read more »Rock it - The first pre-release version of Fedora 13 arrives
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The alpha release already includes all the changes expected to find their way into the distribution, which is scheduled for a mid-May release. These include a new GNOME program for colour calibrating hardware and Linux kernel 2.6.33
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Window Maker Desktop: Lightweight Linux Minimalism
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Window Maker is a fast, lightweight window manager based as closely as possible on the look and feel of the NeXTStep interface. (You may be familiar with NeXTStep an ancestor of Mac OSX, although the look and feel has changed a fair bit between the two.)
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Desktops and their performance
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Phoronix has used its Test Suite to compare the memory and power consumption of different desktop environments. However, the results should be handled with care.
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PCLinuxOS 2010 Beta 1 released
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The PCLinuxOS developers have released the first beta for the 2010 edition of their Linux distribution, improving LiveCD boot time by 50%
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Five Improvements for KDE 4.5 (Part 1)
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The KDE 4 series has been a very good experience for me. Sure, I have complaints (who doesn’t) but for the most part, the latest generation of KDE contains quite possibly the best open source innovation I have ever seen.
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Listem Music Player 0.6.5 was released
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Listem Music Player 0.6.5 was released yesterday and it comes with many changes and fixes:
* Playlists order are keeped
* Fixed some encoding problem when downloading podcast
* Write a new API to display html
* New preference window layout
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OpenShot 1.1 Released - Gets New Effects
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Version 1.1 brings with it a buffet of new features, speed improvements and general all round greatness that we've come to expect from the fast-paced development of the OpenShot team.
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The Direction Of Intel Graphics With Fedora 13 Alpha
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Fedora 13 Alpha was released yesterday with a plethora of new features and updated packages for this Red Hat Linux distribution. Each Fedora release always pulls in the very latest Linux graphics code.
Read more »Psi Is A Feature-Rich Jabber Instant Messaging Client For Windows, Linux And Mac OS X
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Psi is a free, open source instant messaging application designed for the Jabber IM network (including Google Talk) compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
If you're tired with the Jabber functionality of Empathy or Pidgin, both lacking lots of important features for this protocol, you should give Psi a try.
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Elive 2.0 "Topaz " - Combine the stability, speed and beauty
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After 2 years of of development, Elive 2.0 landed under the codename "Topaz". The new release comes with many improvments. Elive "Topaz" is based on debian and use Enlightenment 17 as a default desktop .The authors of Elive claim that it offers great visual appear even with minimal hardware resources.
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Top 10 Addictive games on Linux
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For millions of users who are hooked onto that square-rectangular box for most part of their day, passing time becomes almost imperative sometimes. And if the source of this entertainment is addictive enough, then we are definitely talking about Computer games and especially if the games are played on an Open source platform like that of Linux. You possibly have no reason to complain.
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Distributed Replicated Storage Across Four Nodes With GlusterFS On Fedora 12
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This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Fedora 12) to a distributed replicated storage with GlusterFS. Nodes 1 and 2 (replication1) as well as 3 and 4 (replication2) will mirror each other, and replication1 and replication2 will be combined to one larger storage server (distribution). Basically, this is RAID10 over network.
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Open Clip Art Library 2.0 released
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The Open Clip Art Library team is proud to announce the
release of Open Clip Art Library 2.0. Open Clip Art Library now has over 26,000 original and remixed high quality scalable vector graphic (SVG) files that have been produced by over 1,200 creative artists!
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Taking Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix out for a Spin
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For quite some time I’ve been intrigued by Ubuntu’s Netbook Remix (UNR), but I’ve never given it a shot up until now. Being a KDE guy, I usually lean toward applications based on the Qt toolkit and I’ve never really liked GNOME much. For some reason though, the Ubuntu Netbook Remix has been lingering in my mind for a potential review, and now I’ve finally been able to give it a shot.
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