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Read more »With new code base, Supergamer is fun again
Supergamer is a unique Linux distribution whose primary focus is on fun -- specifically, gaming. Supergamer VL, now based on VectorLinux, is all new, with additional games, new code base, and new look and feel. Let the games begin.
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Firefox 2.0.0.5 patches "critical" flaws
Mozilla today released Firefox 2.0.0.5, the latest update to the group's flagship browser. The update patches eight security vulnerabilities, three of them "critical" and two "high," the group said.
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App restores Linux desktops to pristine state
Deep Freeze system consistency software, popular in Windows and Mac settings, is now available for Linux desktops. "Deep Freeze Linux" is said to reset a Linux workstation's boot process to a pristine state, enabling successive users to avoid misconfiguration by previous users of the computer.
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Pardus Linux 2007.2 Review
Pardus Linux - A good vision, lots of promises, but not fully there yet
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Linux Virtualization Options Roundup
These days, it seems like OS transparency is more necessary than ever before. Luckily, there are plenty of great virtualization options to choose from when you need to run another OS, without actually having to install it along side your existing operating system. Today, we examine each of these options and review their abilities in a rapid fire round.
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Setup Maxemum TV-Guide in Ubuntu
"Maxemum TV-Guide is a KDE TV-guide. It is developed in C++, based on QT/KDE and uses XMLTV as it’s back end to grab listings.
Read more »Shell Geek: Rename Multiple Files At Once
Let's say you have a directory with hundreds of files with the wrong file names, and you'd like to replace every filename containing test with prod. (this is a contrived example). We can easily do this with the "for" command in bash, combined with a little bit of bash goodness. Today we'll learn how to replace text in a variable in a for loop.
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KDE apps : Not *quite* as customizable as I thought
(Token Disclaimer: I don’t mean to start a flame war. Let’s not argue gnome vs KDE. This is simply an observation of mine. I hope someone might have a solution for it.)
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Easy dvd-video authoring on Ubuntu Linux with Dvdman
I have made a simple standard-dvd-video with a custom basic menu, using only free software on Ubuntu (Feisty) for pc i386.
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Shred tip: Securely remove multiple files so no one can recover file again
Shred utility overwrites a file to hide its contents, and optionally delete it if needed. The idea is pretty simple as it overwrites the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it harder for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data. By default file is overwritten 25 times.
Read more »Enabling Beryl On A PCLinuxOS 2007 Desktop
This tutorial shows how you can enable Beryl on a PCLinuxOS 2007 desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card). With Beryl you can make your desktop use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube.
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Firefox gains at IE's expense in Europe
Mozilla's Web browser, Firefox, has gained on average an extra 3.1 percent of the market in 32 European countries in the past four months, according to French Web-monitoring company XiTi Monitor.
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Installing Gobuntu 7.10 - Linux For Free People
Gobuntu is a just like Kubuntu or Xubuntu, a flavor of the Ubuntu distribution that has a very strict set of restrictions on the licenses of code and content.
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coLinux - Cooperative Linux Short Review
The problem is, for me, and many other developers, administrators or just normal users, that if you want to use applications from different OS, you have to reboot and boot into the other OS. Sometimes, when you, for example, just want to do a quick test of newly compiled application, and go back to work, it is very inconvenient and time consuming.
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