This tutorial shows how you can install Linux Mint's Cinnamon desktop on Fedora 18. Since it has now been included in the repositories this can now be done quite quickly. Fedora's default desktop at the moment is GNOME 3.
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Show your love for Free Software
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On February 14th, Valentine's Day, Free Software Foundation Europe asks all Free Software users to show their appreciation for Free Software. FSFE suggests to take this day as an opportunity to say "thank you" to one of the dedicated hard-working people in the Free Software community.
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ROSA Desktop Fresh 2012 GNOME preview
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This is a community-supported edition from ROSA Lab developers that has not been officially sanctioned by ROSA Laboratory, though there is an ongoing discussion to make it and other desktop editions official spins or editions.
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Parliamentary questions requiring a written answer from the European Commissioner for Digital Agenda
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In an article published in the French newspaper ‘Libération’ on 16 January 2013, Commissioner Kroes states that she is proposing an initiative that would grant Internet providers the right to offer cheaper but restricted types of Internet services, under which certain parts of the Internet would not be accessible. Here are seven questions requesting clarification on net neutrality.
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How To Integrate DropBox Into Thunar (Fedora 18/XFCE)
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Thunar is the default file manager for XFCE desktops. While it is easy to integrate DropBox into Nautilus, the default file manager for GNOME, it is not so trivial for Thunar. This guide explains how to use DropBox with the Thunar file manager on a Fedora 18 XFCE desktop.
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Mageia’s upgrade script vs FedUp
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If you are running a rolling-release distribution, this short article will likely be of no use to you, but if you are running an installation of Mageia 2, you’ll learn that is brings good tidings, when it comes to upgrading an existing installation of Mageia.
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Chakra Linux 2013.02-Benz preview
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But problems with its graphical package manager, and the fact that latest releases do not even have one, has seen it drop off my list.
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The Perfect Desktop - Fedora 18 XFCE
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This tutorial shows how you can set up a Fedora 18 desktop (with the XFCE desktop environment) that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops.
Read more »Set up a local Linux installation and update server with Kickstart
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With Kickstart, you can customize automatic installation of any Fedora-based distribution. And to make everything run as quickly as possible, you can store Kickstart files and Linux packages on a local Apache web server, which then servers as your network installation and update server, saving you bandwidth every time you roll out a new machine.
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GPL vs BSD, a matter of sustainability
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Both license models make software free, but only GPL software is sustainably free. The BSD gives greater freedom, the GPL gives more freedom. Choose which one you value more.
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Semi-manual LVM disk partitioning guide for Fedora 18
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Semi-manual LVM disk partitioning guide for Fedora 18 provides a step-by-step guide on how to customize the disk space allocated to the root logical volume, so that it gets just enough disk space required for the life of the installation.
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Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL, SquirrelMail (Fedora 18)
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This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP), so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses.
Read more »KDE 4.10 Review: Time To Switch To KDE
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KDE keeps the desktop relevant and powerful as it doesn’t force an interface designed for phones or tablets on desktop users. KDE offers different GUI environments for different form factores. There is Plasma Desktop for desktop computers,Plasma Netbook for netbooks, and "Plasma Active" for smartphones and tablets. So a desktop or tablet user doesn’t have to make any compromise.
Read more »KDE Software Compilation 4.10 Released
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This release combines the latest technologies along with many improvements to bring users the premier collection of Free Software for home and professional use. Special thanks to the KDE Quality Team for managing a comprehensive testing program for this release. Their work greatly assisted developers and played a key role in maintaining quality and stability.
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Fedora 18 review
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The new Anaconda is just one feature, albeit a very important one, that shipped with Fedora 18. There are many other features, new and updated, that also shipped. So, this is not going to be all about Anaconda. It will form a major portion of this review, but, certainly, not all of it.
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