I’m going out on a limb saying it, but here’s my brief prediction — probably worthless, overdramatic and ill-informed, but my prediction anyway: Xubuntu’s push toward Gnome applications is going to marginalize the distro.
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Set Up PC-BSD v1.4 beta
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This document describes how to set up PC-BSD v1.4 beta. PC-BSD is released under the BSD license.
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Mandriva First to Demonstrate KDE/Linux Desktop on the New Intel MID platform
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Mandriva showcased the first prototype of the Mandriva Linux distribution with KDE running on the new Intel Mobile Internet Device (MID) platform at the aKademy 2007 conference.
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Villa Libre: Mandriva Linux en la nueva plataforma móvil de Intel (ES)
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La nueva plataforma móvil de Intel trata de diseñar dispositivos móviles cuya funcionalidad y tamaño está a medio camino entre un móvil y un ordenador portátil.
Los de Mandriva han realizado pequeñas modificaciones a su distribución orientada a memorias FLASH para que funcionara a la perfección en dichos dispositivos.
Read more »Envy - ATI/NVIDIA driver installer
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"Envy" is an application for Ubuntu and Debian written in Python and PyGTK which will: detect the model of your graphic card, download the right version of the proprietary driver for your ATI or Nvidia card from ATI or Nvidia's websites, handle the dependencies required to build the module, install/uninstall the driver, set up your xorg.conf for you, and then restart the Xserver for you.
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Command & Conquer For Free
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EA has released the original Command & Conquer for free to celebrate the pioneering real-time strategy game's 12th anniversary. Images for both of the game discs (GDI and NOD) are provided; I don't know how difficult they'll be to install/extract under Linux yet though.
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VectorLinux - The Pefect Installation and Setup
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The VectorLinux Website is promising: “Speed, performance, stability -- these are attributes that set VectorLinux apart in the crowded field of Linux distributions. VectorLinux is a lighterweight, fast, Linux operating system for Intel-AMD x86 compatible systems and is based upon Slackware, one of the original Linux distributions…”
Read more »Open source a natural for anti-virus software?
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Consider: a large population of users who can report virii. Many people with the same "itch" (to be free of virii). A subsegment of both communities with the aptitude and interest in killing these virii. Should be a perfect market for open source, right? Architecture of participation and all that....ClamAV seems to make the argument that it is.
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PCLinuxOS Magazine September 2007 Issue 13 Released!
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PCLinuxOS Magazine, September 2007 Issue is available to download. We apologize for the 2 day delay in this release; website problems at mypclinuxos.com added to our woes. However, a few days late never means a dollar short! Our previous issues can also be downloaded.
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DSPAM WebUI with Virtual Users on Debian Etch
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To be able to use the DSPAM WebUI, and to let users take care of their own spam and train DSPAM themselves, you will have to install dspam-webfrontend (or download the source and get it from there)
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Productivity enhancers for Thunderbird
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As with Firefox, you can extend Thunderbird's functionality by installing extensions. Mozilla's official extension repository has quite a few nifty tools on offer, and which ones you choose to install depends entirely on your needs. There are, however, a few extensions that you might find indispensable no matter how you use Thunderbird.
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Linux backups powered by Rsync
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Backup like a PRO using one most popular linux backup tool alternatives called rsync. RSync backups data and does it very clean and well. Rsync only transfers those data that have been modified and changed so that the destination host has an exact replica from the source host.
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Ubuntu and ThinkPad X60, an ideal match
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With my older IBM ThinkPad R50e starting to show its age, I recently decided to upgrade to a newer ThinkPad, this time under the Lenovo name.
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Finding and installing programs in Linux
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There are several myths floating around the wicked world web and I intend to address one of those today. That is installation of programs under Linux. It seems to be a common misconception that installing programs under Linux is hard or difficult and that windows is easier. I will now get up on my soapbox and proclaim to the world that it is simply not true!!!
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Switching from Windows to Linux: an app-centric view
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Previously in ITWire we put forth the view that one reason people stick to Windows is because they have to run specific applications that only exist for that platform. We’d like to introduce you to two tremendous web sites which help find open source equivalents for proprietary Windows software.
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