The most referenced and most often used command on any Linux distribution is man, which lets users read the manual pages of other commands. Here are a couple of less well-known but useful commands that let you bookmark a position within a man page, and test a command you read from the man page without closing the page.
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Nokia releases the Hildon Input Method Framework as open source
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Nokia has open sourced today the Hildon Input Method Framework, allowing developers to extend and improving, and also port it to other environments. The components opened are:
* The container UI and plugin system (hildon-input-method, LGPL).
* The glue to GTK+ (hildon-input-method-framework, LGPL).
* One plugin example (BSD).
Firefox: 400 million downloads
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"Today Firefox crossed the 400 million downloads mark as tracked by SpreadFirefox.com"
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ActewAGL Farewells False Economy, Waves Goodbye to Linux
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This is actually a white paper review by Microsoft about a company that went with Microsoft over Linux. The story has a misleading title - as the move had little to do with economy or Linux, and more to do with a lack of skill or investment in skill to manage a very small Linux environment.
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Second generation Asus Eee PC to come April 2008?
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Asus is reportedly already planning to release their second generation Eee PC in April 2008 featuring Intel's Merom processor, reduced power consumption and no cooling fan...and will run a customized version of Linux worked out between Asus and Intel.
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Palm shakes hands with Linux
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My Palm Tungsten E had gone totally dead. I had to restore everything with a sync, and by some kind of magic, my Palm infrared keyboard suddenly started working again. So it was time to get the Palm and Linux talking to each other.
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Klik2 - a new Linux installer for the masses?
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The klik development team has recently released a screencast of the currently developed software system klik2. While currently in development klik2 is supposed too solve quite some problems regarding software usage and Linux once it is released. And indeed the current available information are very promising.
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Prevent X.Org from Starting in Ubuntu
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If you've got an Ubuntu machine that you initially installed with Ubuntu Desktop, but would like to run as a server, you can just disable the graphical environment from starting up in order to save resources. This is also useful for doing system maintenance from the command line that needs to be performed outside of the GUI.
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Australia To Join Mandriva Partner Ecosystem
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Pursuing its strategy of developing a large international network of local partners, Mandriva today announces the launch of Mandriva Australia as the sole Australian partner for Mandriva SA, distributing and supporting Mandriva Linux operating systems.
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Nuxified and Cluenet prepare a gaming tourney. You are invited!
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Nuxified.org and Cluenet.org are preparing to hold a Free Software gaming tournament. Its purpose is to promote gaming in the Free Software world, on operating systems such as GNU/Linux, and *BSD and show that gaming is not limited to proprietary platforms such as Microsoft's Windows.
We need feedback.
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ATI/AMD's New Open-Source Strategy Explained
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The embargo is lifted so we can now share with you what AMD's new open-source strategy for ATI GPUs is all about. You may be in for a real surprise!
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Open source acquisitions, time to grow up?
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A bit of teenage angst is cropping up in speculation about acquisitions of open source software companies. With the $500 million buy of XenSource by Citrix Systems Inc. and previous buys by RedHat Inc. and Oracle Corp. last year, open source software providers have become viable targets despite worries about lack of sales and compromised code that could lead to legal disputes.
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UK Government's response to iPlayer e-petition
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The BBC Trust has responsibility for ensuring that the correct degree of scrutiny is given to all proposals from the BBC Executive for new services (such as the iPlayer) and any significant changes to existing services.In the case of the iPlayer, following the consultation, the Trust noted the strong public demand for the service to be available on a variety of operating systems.
Read more »Samba 4 Moves Closer to Active Directory Server Compatibility
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For years, if you wanted an inexpensive, but Windows-compatible file and print server, you turned to Samba running on Linux. Now, with the first alpha release of Samba 4, this open-source project is moving closer to becoming a complete Windows 2003/Longhorn replacement.
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Linux-powered PS3s run conference signage
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Sony's Playstation3 (PS3) does not run Linux as its standard OS. However, the device's unique Cell BE processor has been supported in the mainline Linux kernel since late last year. A commercial PS3 Linux distribution has been available from TerraSoft since last October -- a month before the PS3 actually shipped, and a company in Germany also offers a server-oriented Linux distro for the PS3.
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