One of the best features of Gnome 3 are the dynamic workspaces. Using some simple keyboard shortcuts, it is possible to assign an application to a workspace and quickly switch between them. If you run a standard set of applications, this process makes switching between them very efficient.
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Introduction To The Ubuntu Unity Desktop
This tutorial is supposed to guide the reader through some new features of the Unity desktop, Ubuntu's new desktop environment used since Ubuntu 11.04. The prime subject will be the launcher, which is something like a side-dock, and how to configure it the way it fits your likings most.
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Three reasons you might want to install PCMANFM - The LXDE File Manager
File management is not a sexy job, but it is something you probably do a lot of. Nautilus, the default Gnome file manager, does a pretty good job, but it does have a few shortcomings. Of course you are not limited to Nautilus, and I have found the LXDE file manager PCMANFM quite handy. Here's why.
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Progress
In true open source fashion, the community debates the most important issue of the day
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678775
I for one, think we should remove the kernel version number from dmesg output. I mean, it's changing all the time anyways.
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All Your BASH Are Belong To Us
A convoluted legal row over whether BASH scripts can be declared to be "trade secrets" is now raging in a Kansas courthouse.
"These predators believe that because someone decided to share their work, in an effort to move the market/community forward for everyone, they have a right to call it their own."
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3 applications for changing screen resolution on Linux Mint 11 LXDE
Linux Mint 11 LXDE, a recently released edition of Linux Mint, is one of a handful of distributions that does not come with a screen resolution switcher installed. Several are in the repository, but they are not installed. This short tutorial will show you how to install and use them.
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Linux Mint 11 LXDE
Linux Mint 11 LXDE has been released. This is the first release, other the main edition, which uses the GNOME 2 desktop environment, of Linux Mint 11, the edition of Linux Mint based on Ubuntu.
While a full review on the main website is still in the works, here are a few screenshots from a test installation.
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UN ICT agency asks world yoof, geeks for great tech ideas
[Even if there were no prize, this would be a great advocacy opportunity for the FLOSS community to change the world. And we work with (or are) NPO's, too.]
As part of its revamp, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is asking yoof and geeks to submit world-changing ideas, 60 of which will earn their entrants a trip to Geneva to pitch them to "industry leaders".
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How can I make a Slackware box to host my domain's webpages and make it my email server
how can I make a Slackware box to host my domain's webpages and make it my email server ? and how to configure it use my domain
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Measure tomcat Performance with ab
Typically when you want to measure tomcat performance, you will set up the client on a separate machine so that when you are doing testing the client resource usage does not impact the test...
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Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 11.04
Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, virtual hosts, authentication, on the fly encoding, load balancing, Apache compatible log files, and much more.
Read more »Three Quake like drop-down terminals for Linux
I have become a big fan of drop down terminal windows, modeled after the Quake console, instead of having a terminal window sitting in the background that I have to switch to for every command that I want to run. You just press a keyboard shortcut, run your command, and hide the window again.
Read more »Firefox 8 to block unapproved add-ons
Starting with Firefox 8, Mozilla will automatically block browser add-ons installed by other software until users approve them, a company product manager announced yesterday. Software-bundled add-ons have been a problem for Firefox users, who have sometimes been surprised to find browser extensions show up on their machines without their consent.
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Mark Shuttleworth on patents, tablets and the future of Ubuntu
The patents system was originally designed to encourage disclosure. It comes from an era, hundreds of years ago, when innovation was kept secret and kept inside family businesses for many generations. There was a recognition that if you could publish information, then other people might innovate on top of the original idea.
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If You Have To License The Software You Claim Infringes On Your Patent, How Is Your Patent Valid?
“It’s like they tried to patent a time machine, and they told you how big it was, and the color of the seats, but neglected to mention how it travels through time.”
Software patents don't promote innovation, they STRANGLE it.
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