If you’ve got a pivoting monitor and happen to be using Ubuntu with an Nvidia video card there are a couple of ways you can enable pivoting.
Read more »VMGL: Full OpenGL 3D Hardware Acceleration for Virtual Machines
Introducing VMGL, which provides OpenGL Hardware 3D Acceleration for Virtual Machines. It is a program that you install in both the host and guest and allows for virtualizing the OpenGL functions.
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Ubuntu Linux's Achilles' Heel: It's Tough To Install On Laptops
The wildly popular Linux distro isn't all it's cracked up to be, especially if you try to install it on a laptop, our reviewer Alex Wolfe finds. Come along on his Ubuntu safari, as he hacks his way through bug-fraught installation attempts.
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Beryl: Eye Candy (and More) for Linux
Over the past few years, 3-D rendering in window managers has become a new trend in the desktop environment. OS X was the first to make fancy visual effects prominent in the way users interact with the windows in their desktop. Windows Vista has also jumped on the bandwagon with its Aero interface, though it has some performance issues to work out.
Read more »Audacity's new beta? Sounds good.
Audacity's follow-up to its cult-classic audio editor, Audacity 1.3, warrants the attention of amateur and "prosumer" music editors. Audacity 1.3 adds minor (though useful) editing effects, and greases the wheels with some time-saving functionality.
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openSUSE LiveCD Installer
I wrote an installer for KIWI-generated LiveCDs...It’s still in early development and has lots of hacks to make things work, but it does manage to install a working system onto your machine. The installation itself is really pretty simple.
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Preliminary Review: Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon Alpha 2
My heart sank a little bit as I sat through 2-3 minutes of what can only be described as 'error messages' while this early release of Gutsy Gibbon booted on my virtual machine - although it came through in the end. Here we have the Alpha 2 release of Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon for me to cast a preliminary eye over 3 months prior to release.
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Tabbed File Browser in Ubuntu
One of the greatest mysteries to me is why most file managers don’t have tabs - it makes performing tasks so much simpler.
I’ve found a lightweight file manager for Ubuntu called PCMan that gives you most of the functionality from Nautilus, but also has tabs.
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Bash tutorial
Here we go, bash scripting is nothing more then combining lots of UNIX commands
to do things for you, you can even make simple games in bash
(just UNIX commands) or as in normal cases, batch files to control things
in your computer.
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OpenOffice.org alternatives - Part 2
There are really only two mainstream competitors to OOo Calc, one from the GNOME Office suite and the other from KDE’s KOffice Project. However, I’ll also look at a bit more of an exotic solution after that as well.
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Lock in productivity with Lockout utility
You can stop computer-based slacking with a few changes to your computer's DNS profile, and enforce the changes using Lockout, a tool designed to enforce discipline and increase productivity.
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Sun looks to steal Linux thunder with OpenSolaris
Looking to steal thunder from the Linux juggernaut or at least catch the same wave, Sun plans to release binaries in Spring 2008 for its OpenSolaris Unix platform, similar to how Linux is offered, as part of the company's Project Indiana.
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Even More Gaming In Ubuntu Feisty...
After recently putting together a list of 11 great games in Ubuntu, a few concerned readers politely suggested games that should have been on that list. As a result, I discovered many games I hadn’t even heard of, but turned out to be fun
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Making your laptop Linux friendly
I stood in line for the Wal-Mart Special $379 Compaq Presario V5000 CTO Notebook PC last year (Black Friday deal). It was a true bargain, you couldn't ask more for a laptop.
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What's cooking for FreeBSD 7?
The next major release of FreeBSD, version 7, is one of the most significant so far, with amount of new technologies and improvement largest since introduction of 5.0. Since constantly searching the mailing lists for important changes can be a bit tedious, I've created this (frequently updated) page to list some of the more interesting new things in one place.
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