Paul Sherman has announced the availability of Absolute Linux 12.0.1, a light-weight modification of Slackware Linux with IceWM
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Automatix FTW! I knew that would get your attention...
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I knew that would get your attention. Anyways, thanks to Matthew for his outstanding technical review of Automatix.
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Abiword gets experimental OCR scanning support
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An experimental Abiword plugin built on Ocropus and GEGL brings integrated OCR scanning support to the popular open source word processing program.
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The Linux Gamers' Game List
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A massive, massive list of linux games... did I mention it was massive??
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FreeBSD update software and apply security patch
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Updating FreeBSD server system is quite easy. You can apply security patch to keep freebsd system up to date.
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As an old saying goes;
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My father would sometimes say “Never let the true facts , get in the way of a good story”. Never more that be a more accurate determination of the current gambit by a competing ( yes im not going to say their name this is a Google world after all ) operating system vendor to split and divide the open source community
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CSS Layouts: The Fixed. The Fluid. The Elastic.
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"...Which Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) layout is best? All have their quirks and their unique pros and cons. Is one more accessible than the other? More usable? What are the drawbacks and how are they dealt with? Is one easier to create than the other?..."
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The Web The Way You Want
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"While working on miscellaneous Web related things including:[...] # Building Emacs-G-Client --- an Emacs client for Google services,# Connecting Emacs and Firefox via MozREPL to get the best of both worlds, [...] I also wrote a draft chapter on specialized Web browsing..."
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The Browser Scripting Revolution
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"...This is a huge, huge, deal. This means that JavaScript will no longer be the only viable scripting language in browsers that use that Tamarin engine[...]this is a huge announcement. This immediately helps to give credence to using the upcoming JavaScript 2 language as its cross-browser support is practically assured..."
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GNU and FSF News for August 2007
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"...The adoption of the GPLv3 continues, over 300 packages are now using it. The 2007 Trophées du Libre awards are coming up soon. The FSF Europe published a new issue of their newsletter, full of interesting free software news from Europe. There was a minor GCC release, and the last new GCC release under the GPLv2 license.
Read more »30 things I’ve learned from using Linux …
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I began My Linux Experience back at the end of February and over the past five months I’ve managed to spend a fair bit of time dabbling and experimenting with a variety of Linux distros. Over these months I’ve learned a lot - a lot about Linux, a lot about the Linux community and a lot about myself and how I look at and interact with PCs.
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IEs 4 Linux Internet Explorer 5.0 5.5 6.0 on Linux
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Over the last year or so Ive read allot of good things about IEs 4 Linux and today I thought I would give the script a try for myself. IEs 4 Linux is a simple Bash Script program that installs Internet Explorer 5.0 5.5 6.0 on Linux. IE 7.0 support is currently in beta testing builds and should be officially supported in their next stable release.
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Freespire 2.0 released
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Freespire 2.0 has been released: "Freespire 2.0 is immediately available; the latest version of the free desktop Linux operating system. Building on the best of open source software using Ubuntu as its baseline, Freespire 2.0 adds legally licensed proprietary drivers, codecs, and applications in its core distribution
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Lenovo or No, Linux Not There Yet
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With Monday’s news that it will bundle Linux on laptops, Lenovo becomes the second major PC maker to offer the open-source operating system on consumer PCs. But though the move is a boost for the OS, analysts say it’ll be years before desktop Linux can seriously threaten proprietary systems like Windows.
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Controlling and managing Edubuntu users' desktops
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The community-driven Edubuntu project aims to create a version of Ubuntu specially tailored for use in primary and secondary education. Perhaps the most useful feature present in the Edubuntu OS is the Linux Terminal Server Project environment, whose applications are not limited just to eduction.
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