The first article on Fedora and Cinnamon published on this website was about installing Cinnamon 1.1.3 on Fedora 16. Now that a newer version of Cinnamon has been released, time for an update or upgrade.
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Mageia 2 beta 1 screen shot preview
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The first beta release of Mageia 2 was made available for download yesterday (February 21). The final stable release is not due until May 3, but from test installations of this first beta, in both real hardware and virtual environment, I can tell you that Mageia 2 may very well turn out to be the best desktop distribution of 2012.
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How to install Cinnamon 1.3.1 in Ubuntu 11.10
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Cinnamon 1.3.1 is the latest version of Cinnamon, a new desktop environment forked from GNOME 3 by the developers of Linux Mint. Given the need for a desktop other than Unity on Ubuntu, Cinnamon just might be the best GNOME 3 alternative desktop environment available.
This tutorial gives the simple steps required to install Cinnamon 1.3.1 on Ubuntu 11.10.
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PlayOnLinux 4.0.14 has been released
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Sorry for being late, I don't have a lot of free time at the moment. Here's PlayOnLinux 4.0.14.
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Install Ubuntu 11.10 on external hard drive, with an ntfs partition at the end
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How to install Ubuntu 11.04 on external hard disk, showed how to install Ubuntu 11.04 on a portable USB hard drive. This tutorial, written for Ubuntu 11.10, takes it a step further by showing how to add an NTFS partition at the end of an external drive – after installing Ubuntu.
Read more »FreedomBox Hackfest in NYC on Presidents' Day Weekend
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It's in New York on February 18th, 19th and 20th. There are a lot of places we might make progress. This will be fun for people of all skills and experience. A day of pizza, beer and throwing bits against the box will make for great progress.
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Secure boot petition
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We, the undersigned, urge all computer makers implementing UEFI's so-called "Secure Boot" to do it in a way that allows free software operating systems to be installed. To respect user freedom and truly protect user security, manufacturers must either allow computer owners to disable the boot restrictions, or provide a sure-fire way for them to install and run a free software operating system of their choice. We commit that we will neither purchase nor recommend computers that strip users of this critical freedom, and we will actively urge people in our communities to avoid such jailed systems.
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Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Fedora 16
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Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on a Fedora 16 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.
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Free Software powered Spark tablet available for pre-order
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Spark operates on a free software platform of GNU/Linux, Mer OS and KDE Plasma Active. The Spark Linux tablet was announced last month and is now available for pre-order.
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Wine 1.4-rc4 Released
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The Wine development release 1.4-rc4 is now available. Whats new in this release Bug fixes only we are in code freeze.
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Chakra GNU/Linux 2012.02 Archimedes review
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Chakra is a desktop-centric, Linux distribution that was derived from Arch Linux, but is now a fork of that distribution. Unlike Arch Linux, which supports several desktop environments, Chakra is a KDE-only distribution.
Read more »CodeWeavers CrossOverNow 30% off sale
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Codeweavers offers downloads of its Crossover Games for $39.95 and Crossover Professional for $69.95 but if you apply coupon code CrossOverNow this will drop CrossOver Games to $27.96 And Crossover Professional to $48.96 That's 30% off the normal retail selling price.
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EU Court of Justice Rules Out Private and Automatic Censorship
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In the SABAM vs. Netlog case, it declares that forcing a hosting service to monitor and filter online content violates EU law. This is a crucial and timely ruling, just when initiatives such as ACTA and the revision of the IPRED directive aim to generalise private and automatic online censorship to enforce an outdated copyright regime.
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How to install Microsoft Office 2010 on Linux with Wine
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I installed MS Office Professional 2010 on my Ubuntu computers and it's working fluently.
Read more »Installing A Web, Email & MySQL Database Cluster On Debian 6.0 With ISPConfig 3
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This tutorial describes the installation of a clustered web, email, database and DNS server to be used for redundancy, high availability and load balancing on Debian 6 with the ISPConfig 3 control panel.
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