In the TLWIR series, I take a hard look at the 8 most compelling stories in the realms of Linux, GNU, free software, and open source in the past week. This week is no different. There were great stories abound demonstrating more than ever that Linux has truly arrived. From Meego to Mint to Miro to the U.S. DoD, Linux and free software are literally everywhere.
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4 Things to Do After You Install KDE
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The KDE workspace is a unique experience not found with any other desktop environment or operating system. It is called Plasma and is fully integrated with a widget system and is easily themeable. When you first install KDE, it will already look beautiful, but half of the fun of a free and open source workspace is tweaking.
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Five cool KDE widgets for your desktop!
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KDE has many very cool and useful widgets which you can add on your KDE desktop or in your taskbar. Lets have a look at the top 5 widgets.
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Fedora 15 Xfce review
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Fedora 15 Xfce is a Fedora 15 Spin. In Fedoraland, a Spin is an alternate edition of Fedora, “tailored for various types of users via hand-picked application sets and other customizations.” Presently, five Spins have been released. These are, in order of popularity, the KDE, Xfce, LXDE, Security and Games Spins.
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How to install and configure Adobe Flash Player 10.3 on Fedora 15
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Fedora 15, code-named Lovelock, does not ship with commercial applications. Which means that you are not able to install essential applications like Adobe Flash Player from the graphical package manager. There are a few open source Flash plugins, but they do not render current Flash content very well, if at all.
Read more »MacX HD Video Converter Pro for Windows Serial number
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MacX HD Video Converter Pro is really a software which combine HIGH DEFINITION video converter, DVD Burning and Youtube Online video downloader. This software can handle many video formats for instance HD & SD, MKV, M2TS, MTS, AVCHD, AVI, MPEG, MP4, WMV, MOV, FLV, RM, RMVB, WebM, Google TV and more.
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Remove The Fortune Messages In The Linux Mint Terminal
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I've always been slightly annoyed by the fortune cookie type message that appears in the Linux Mint terminal by default. I feel like it's in the way when I'm focused on opening the terminal and entering a command. This tutorial shows how to utilize the new Linux Mint 11 feature and remove this, as well as how to do it on Linux Mint 10 without the GUI.
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How to use KDE 4 Desktop Activities
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KDE Desktop Activities help to create an incredibly efficient and organized desktop. Jack Wallen introduces this new feature to Linux desktop users longing to take KDE 4 to new heights.
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Guest session and user management on Fedora 15
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User management on Fedora 15 is just as easy as on any other distribution or operating system. And the graphical user management tools (there are two) are very intuitive to use. There are two types of user accounts on Fedora 15 – Standard and Administrator. The Administrator has root or super user privileges. During installation, the user created may be added to the Administrators group.
Read more »How to install Fedora 15 on an encrypted btrfs file system
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Fedora 15, the latest stable release of the Red Hat-sponsored Linux distribution, is the first Fedora release to have btrfs as a file system option during the installation process. On earlier versions, you would have had to pass the btrfs option to Anaconda at boot time to install Fedora on a btrfs file system.
Read more »SAMBA and Share Configuration Through YaST
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This OpenSUSE desktop tutorial explains how to how to setup and configure SAMBA and share configuration using YaST.
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Forcing Scripts to Run as root
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At times you will want to have the script stop if it is not being executed as root or as a user who has root privileges for this script. This article will show you how to set up each of those options.
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How To Upgrade From Fedora 14 To Fedora 15 (Desktop & Server)
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This article describes how you can upgrade your Fedora 14 system to Fedora 15. The upgrade procedure works for both desktop and server installations.
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Voicemail to text converter
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Some people would prefer to read texting rather than to pay attention the messages. If you are one too, than you have to apply Yap Voicemail. Yap Voicemail is a mobile phone application that can switches voicemail into text messages so it is usually easier to read.
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Preparing the Linux Server for SAMBA
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Before we configure SAMBA we should make sure that the file-systems that we share to Windows users will support the Windows style of Access Control Lists. Linux file-system security will allow for rights to be assigned to one user, one group and everyone else. Windows will allow multiple users and groups in the access control lists.
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