Finally announced during the annual Debian Developer Conference "Debconf10" in New York that Debian "Squeeze" has now been frozen. In consequence this means that no more new features will be added and all work will now be concentrated on polishing Debian "Squeeze" to achieve the quality Debian stable releases are known for.
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KDE's New Releases Make a Splash
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The new software from KDE's recent 4.5 Release Day has been well received by the technical media with widespread positive reviews and recognition of the focus on quality for this set of releases.
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Resizing Linux partitions, Part 1: Basics
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If you follow common partitioning advice, chances are your disk uses several partitions. If you set the sizes incorrectly or if your needs change, you may find yourself needing to resize your partitions. To do so, you must familiarize yourself with the requirements for resizing partitions and the tools that can do the job.
Read more »ISPConfig 3/Debian Multiserver Setup With Dedicated Web/Email/DNS/MySQL Servers
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This tutorial describes the installation of an ISPConfig 3 multiserver setup with dedicated web, email, database and two DNS servers all managed trough a single ISPConfig 3 control panel. The setup described below uses five servers and can be extended easily to to a higher number of servers by just adding more servers. E.g.
Read more »Massive Changes Coming to Ubuntu 10.10 'Maverick Meerkat' Installer
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Microsoft Windows comes pre installed with hardware in most of the cases and hence a vast majority of Windows users probably have't ever seen Windows installer. But that is not the case with Ubuntu. Only a handful of manufacturers sell pre installed Ubuntu hardware and hence the need for down to earth simple and eyecandy Installer.
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Generating labels and business cards in OpenOffice.org
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Despite the fact that open source has specialty label-and-business-card programs, most users are going to continue to create their documents in the word processor they feel most comfortable with like OpenOffice.org Writer.
Read more »Fotoxx -- the Greatest Little Linux Photo Editor You've Never Heard Of
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F-spot, shotwell, solang -- some distros are arguing about what should be the default "simpler than GIMP" image editor. But there's one that never seems to get mentioned and deserves a look: fotoxx. Despite a name that sounds like a wrinkle treatment, this little image editor is lightweight and doesn't have many dependencies -- great for a netbook or other modest machine.
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Firefox 4 a big deal
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The impending final release of Firefox 4 is something of a big deal for the Mozilla Foundation. Over the past year the popular open source browser has been facing some stiff competition from the likes of Google's Chrome and, even, Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser.
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Convert ext2/3 to ext4
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In this article I am going to show you how to migrate your ext2 or ext3 partition to ext4. I will use a Ubuntu machine as an example. I want to warn you that you could lose data by doing this so, following good administrative practices, back up your data!
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Scratch buffers for Emacs
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"...Ordinarily, you’d use *scratch*, but it’s useful to have your scratch buffer use mode for the language you want to write code in, and *scratch* doesn’t fulfill this unless you’re hacking on emacs-lisp. To this end, I created scratch-el, a bit of code for doing just this..."
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The first playable (multi-player only) alpha of O A.D. has been released!
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The first playable (multi-player only) alpha of O A.D. has been released!
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Even more GNOME keyboard shortcuts
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Well all strive to make our desktop as efficient as possible. Whether you're a coder who wants nothing more than to never remove your fingers from the keyboard, or if you're a writer who wants to use the mouse only when necessary, there are so many ways to make this happen. One of the easiest ways is to use keyboard shortcuts.
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Announcing Vim (Vi IMproved) version 7.3
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This is a minor release of Vim. It consists of Vim 7.2 plus all patches, updated runtime files and some more, see below. It has been two years since the 7.2 release, thus it's not that "minor". But not "major" either. Something in between, don't know how to call that.
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Penguin program promises license vaccination
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A program to help keep software and device makers on the right side of open-source licensing law has been unveiled by the Linux Foundation. The Open Compliance Program includes tools, training, consulting, and self-assessment to help you comply with the myriad of open-source licenses.
Read more »Personal Finance Manager KMyMoney 4.5 Released
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This is the first version based on KDE Platform 4. Some new features are: better documentation, support for the latest version of AqBanking, improved usability of the online banking features, KWallet integration to store online banking passwords, consistency checks...
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