Lethe is a Deep Freeze-like partition freezing software for Debian GNU/Linux and Lihuen GNU/Linux (May work on other Debian-based GNU/Linux distributions).
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SMPlayer: Complete Front-end for MPlayer
SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer (video player), from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more.
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FSlint - Clean and organize your Linux
By the time now, we all know that all applications installed on our PC are slowly filling our system with files, then comes a time when controlling everything in our computer becomes virtually impossible. If you want your computer to be running like the first day you had it. Put FSlint the task of cleaning and organizing your Linux very easy.
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Microsoft Linux Move Puts Pressure on VMware
Microsoft's historic embrace of Linux technology could have wide-reaching impacts on the virtualization market and Microsoft's rival VMware.
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Linux Laptops Bestsellers in Germany
LinuxTECH.NET: "At the time of writing there are two Laptops with pre-installed Linux in the top ten bestsellers, both in front of the first bestselling Apple Laptop."
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Restrict (Lock) Your Ubuntu Desktop With Lockdown Editor
Gnome system restrictions utility Lockdown Editor lets you create a profile that limits a user to a set of application that a system administrator allows. It has a nice, logically structured GUI that allows administrators to choose and click checkboxes on the options that you want to deny for user access.
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Why Linux Did Not Need Microsoft’s Code Injection
The Novell-supported patch brings a software patents debate into Linux and also leverages Windows
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Like free software? Then contribute!
Free and open source projects need contributions from the community so that they can keep developing great software.
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khtml2png - Take Command Line Web Screenshots on Linux
khtml2png is a helpful tool for capturing an image of a webpage with ease. It's nice to use because it will get the entire length of the site, no matter whether it is fully visible in the browser. And, it sure beats shell scripting Firefox to open on a different display and capturing an image with Imagemagick, which is a royal pain in the butt.
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Microsoft donates code to Linux: Remember, folks, what comes after 'Embrace'
Microsoft has donated some drivers to Linux. It's to their advantage to do so. This isn't code to make Linux better in some way that benefits everyone.
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India to Create New Chip: Guess Which OS it's Using?
The Indian government will reportedly bring together top engineers to design what is tentatively being called the "India microprocessor."
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Install a Simplified Nautilus for Ubuntu [100 Paper Cuts]
One Hundred Paper Cuts is a project which attempts to fix 100 usability errors reported by the users for the new Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala.
One of the most popular "paper cuts" concerns Nautilus, the default file browser in GNOME. Its graphical interface could be improved a lot: the space currently devoted to the menu / columns is too big and takes away space for the really important stuff.
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Free much more disk space than localepurge
Even if you are a polyglot fluent in nine languages, and Ubuntu installs files for 500 languages: that means you are wasting disk space for 491 languages you will never use! Ridiculous!
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Would you like to know about 0day defects months in advance?
There’s a lot of discussion today about a 0day Local Linux Root exploit. http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6820 For readers who aren’t security-savvy, that means that a user logged into a Linux system, with shell access, can bypass system security mechanisms and elevate his access to be equivalent to the system administrator (or ‘root’ user).
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Limiting the CPU usage of applications on Linux (ubuntu, debian, fedora etc.)
sometimes in our system we have applications that should not stop working and we need some free resources on your computer for them. Linux can prevent other applications to consume these resources and the applications work properly within a cpu limit.
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