The long-awaited KDE 4.0 desktop environment will be available to users in December but a development platform version will be released on October 30 to give third party developers time to port their applications to the new platform.
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Mozilla Firefox vs. Internet Explorer: Which is Safer?
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I am safer browsing in Mozilla’s Firefox browser than I am in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. I firmly believe this to be the case. Yes, that’s right, Firefox is safer than IE.
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Will Penelope be the death of Thunderbird?
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So Mozilla has taken on the task of developing an open source version of the old Eudora email client under the name of Penelope.
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AMD: GPU Specifications Without NDAs!
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This morning at the X Developer Summit in the United Kingdom, Matthew Tippett and John Bridgman of AMD have announced that they will be releasing their ATI GPU specifications without any Non-Disclosure Agreements needed by the developers!
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My first Linux virus?
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Wandering around my Linux filesystem I found a weird directory in /home …Ok, I thought, I didn’t create that. If it’s a virus, it’s the most stupid virus in existence, but, we never know… Then I got inside and see what files it had, and found this
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For Linux Lovers: The Penguin Mouse
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A computer mouse is no longer a simple object as nowadays it may come in a variety of shapes and sizes, colors and tones, bigger and smaller and sporting exotic or more common features. Among the shapes that a computer mouse can take these days is the shape of a little happy penguin,
looking especially for those Linux lovers out there.
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GCompris 8.4 Released Under GPLv3, Help Needed For 8.5 Release
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GCompris, an official GNU Project providing educational software for children aged 2-10 years, announced the release of version 8.4 today. Changes include upgrading to the GPLv3, as well as major structural changes. And lead developer, Bruno Coudoin, says the project could use some help.
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Portable Apps - Carry all your favorite Open Source applications where ever you go
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I came across this unique website called portableapps.com which has a collection of many Open Source and GPLed software which I use on a daily basis.
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Dell's Linux sleight of hand
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Pssst, pass it on… Dell is selling Linux-based home PCs and laptops to its UK customers, but you’ll need a very good eye and probably a magnifying glass to find the systems on the direct seller's website.
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Ubuntu Search beta
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Ubuntu Search. Find everything about Ubuntu Linux in all official resources
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Dell does Ubuntu, but the sales staff do not know it
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It would appear that Dell is making life difficult for UK customers who want to buy a Dell PC running Linux. Being a snooping journalist myself, I went to have a look for myself and indeed it is a lot harder to buy a Linux powered Dell than all the hype, fuelled in no small part by the Dell PR machine of course, would lead you to believe.
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10 ways Linux can breath life into your old PCs
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Yesterday, I was trying to figure out what to do with a spare Athlon XP 1600+ box that I have. I wrote down some of my ideas and threw in some others I’ve used in the past. If you’re looking for ways to reuse that old PC, just peruse this list.
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Linux Command Line 101
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When you familiarise yourself with the interface with a little help from our article, you'll see that daily tasks like copying or deleting files are executed much faster in CLI than when done graphically and when you dig even deeper into the command line, it'll show you it's true power with scripts and the like.
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Get your questions about AMD/ATI open source drivers commitment answered
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David Airile, who has been working hard on open source drivers for ATI graphics cards and has been working with AMD on the new commitment to open source community for about 3 months, talks about all this. He is also accepting questions people might have about the commitment and the drivers.
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KDE 4.0 Beta 2 Released, Codename "Cartoffel"
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The KDE Community proudly presents the second Beta release for KDE 4.0. This release marks the beginning of the feature freeze and the stabilization of the current codebase. Simultaneously the KOffice developers have released their third Alpha release, marking significant improvements in this innovative office suite.
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