In this article I’d like to describe a text-mode Bittorrent client - rTorrent. It will be helpful to people that share a computer with other household members because it allows them to download files regardless of the logged in user.
Read more »Important Note on OpenOffice Writer Styles
List styles and paragraph styles are totally different. List styles contain only list attributes, no text or paragraph formatting attributes. So I decided to make sure that was clear here...
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Howto: Download packages and dependencies for offline installation
From my perspective, offline installation is the weakest spot in the Linux superstructure. I understand the shared libraries concept, and I think it’s a marvelous thing, but it doesn’t erase the fact that if you’re not in a position for at least intermittent Internet access, it’s a dealbreaker.
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PHP takes aim at Radar
PHP is wildly popular in the open source community, but less so in the enterprise. These things are hard to measure, but one indicator is job vacancies.
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Open-Xchange Receives Readers' Choice Award for 'Best Linux Groupware Server'
Open-Xchange, the open source alternative to Microsoft Exchange is recognized in the first annual Enterprise Open Source Readers Choice Awards.
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Review: Ruby by Example
Learning a new language cannot be complete without a few 'real world' examples. 'Hello world!'s and fibonacci sequences are always nice as an introduction to certain aspects of programming, but soon or later you crave something meatier to chew on.
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Data visualization tools for Linux
Applications for graphical visualization of data on Linux® are varied, from simple 2-D plots to 3-D surfaces, scientific graphics programming, and graphical simulation. Luckily, there are many open source possibilities, including gnuplot, GNU Octave, Scilab, MayaVi, Maxima, OpenDX, and others.
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Google Desktop Search - Redefining Search For Linux
Recently things got better for Linux enthusiasts as Google released its Desktop search tool for Linux as a native build. Because I consider desktop search to be a very important must have feature in all operating systems, I decided to download the Google search tool for Linux and give it a run.
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How to use the Sylpheed email client with Gmail
I have been unable to find any other documentation that explicitly describes how to use the Sylpheed email client with your gmail account. Accordingly, this short article will describe the procedure.
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A Presidential Address
As you may already know, at this year's aKademy the term came up for our past KDE e.V. president, Eva. She served for years on the board and in my opinion did a great job as president. Filling her void was the matter of quite a bit of discussion and I personally thought hard about whether or not to take on the position for days prior to going to Glasgow.
Read more »Mozilla-based browser for Intel Ultra Mobile platform
Intel has announced the launch of Moblin, an umbrella open source project for a Linux-based operating system and applications for Intel Ultra Mobile Platform which includes mobile Internet devices and ultraportable PCs.
Read more »Portland Popular With Open Source Aficionados
Portland is hosting 2500 software developers this week at the annual 'Open Source Convention.' They're attending tutorials with titles like: 'P-threads Programming;' and 'You Got JavaScript in my PHP.'
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Arch Linux Installation Guide
This is going to be my attempt at a newbies installation guide for Arch Linux. This will be a "take you by the hand and lead you through it step by step" approach. Unlike most lead you by the hand guides that tell you to do this, and do that, I intend to also tell you WHY you are doing what you're doing.
Read more »The unforking of KDE's KHTML and Webkit
There is one major web rendering engine that grew entirely out of the open source world: KHTML is KDE's web renderer which was built from the ground up by the open source community with very little original corporate backing. The code was good and branches were born as a result, the best known being Webkit. Now, after years of split, KHTML and Webkit are coming together once again.
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New tools in Ubuntu land: build service, eBox and TimeVault
Ubuntu announced that they will feature their own build service soon. Also, the next Ubuntu version is supposed to have a default installed server management web interface, eBox. In the meantime, development is underway to create a user friendly snapshot manager: TimeVault.
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