The Cinnamon desktop is one of those aspects that you can run on your system right now. But keep in mind that because there is no separate installation image for Cinnamon, the only way you can run it is by installing its packages from an existing installation of Fedora.
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A Beginner's Guide To btrfs
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This guide shows how to work with the btrfs file system on Linux. It covers creating and mounting btrfs file systems, resizing btrfs file systems online, adding and removing devices, changing RAID levels, creating subvolumes and snapshots, using compression and other things.
Read more »15 years of KDE e.V. — Growing Up
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On November 27, 2012 was the 15th birthday of +KDE e.V. (eingetragener Verein; registered association), the legal entity which represents +The KDE® Community in legal and financial matters. We published interviews with two of the founding members (Matthias Ettrich and Kalle Dalheimer) on the why, what and when of KDE e.V. in the beginning.
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Fedora 18 KDE and GNOME preview
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But now that a beta edition has been released, here are some screen shots from test installations of the KDE and GNOME 3 editions.
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15 years of KDE e.V. — Today
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Today, we focus on the present with interviews with two current KDE e.V. Board members, Lydia Pintscher and Cornelius Schumacher. On the bottom, we've got a nice puzzle for you..
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Know who’s tracking your e-reading habits
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This chart gives you an idea of who might be tracking you, or be capable of tracking you and sharing information with law enforcement.
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How to create and maintain anonymous email accounts
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But that should not keep you from trying to keep your email communications private and anonymous, because if you take the proper steps, you can create and maintain anonymous email accounts that will be almost impossible to trace back to you.
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Install MATE on Fedora 18
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Aside from the KDE, GNOME 3, LXDE and Xfce desktop environments, users also have the option of running the MATE and Cinnamon desktop environments. The only problem, and a very minor one, is that there are no separate installation images for MATE and Cinnamon.
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The Perfect Desktop - Linux Mint 14 (Nadia)
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This tutorial shows how you can set up a Linux Mint 14 (Nadia) desktop 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. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.
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Running concrete5 On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 12.10
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This tutorial shows how you can install and run a concrete5 web site on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 12.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files.
Read more »All watched over by machines of loving grace — society, power, and control
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Karsten Gerloff is the current president of the Free Software Foundation Europe, the European sister organization of the FSF. He began his LinuxCon Europe 2012 talk, entitled "All watched over by machines of loving grace", by focusing on a number of technological trends.
Read more »The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu Studio 12.10
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This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu Studio 12.10 desktop 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. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.
Read more »Majority in Bern council tells Swiss city to switch to Free Software
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A clear majority in the council of the Swiss city of Bern has voted for a switch to free and open source IT solutions. It instructs the city's IT department to make future IT purchases platform and vendor neutral and to prefer using open source solutions. This way, the council wants to rid the city of IT vendor lock-in.
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BSDCan 2013 - call for papers
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BSDCan 2013 will be held 17-18 May, 2013 in Ottawa;Canada at the University of Ottawa. It will be preceded by two days of tutorials on 15-16 May.
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How To Install XFCE On Linux Mint 14
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XFCE is a lightweight desktop environment. For Linux Mint 13, the was an XFCE edition in addition to the Cinnamon and Mate editions, but for Linux Mint 14, there isn't. This short guide explains how to install XFCE on your Linux Mint 14 desktop.
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