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It seems like an eternity since we last mentioned Elementary & design demi-god Dan Rabbit’s ‘Dash’ file browser idea. At the time Dash was both an exciting concept and a project that, unlike so many other great ideas, actually moved from pixels on a .png into usable actuality! Sadly the [...]
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This tutorial will explain how to add items,remove items from ‘Open With’ window (...)Read the rest of How to add/remove applications from ‘Open With’ window (57 words) © admin for Ubuntu Geek, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: add/remove applications from 'Open With' window, desktop Related Articles Appnr - [...]
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Martin ‘DoctorMo’ Owens posted this very neat demonstration of a generative wallpaper, as proposed/wanted/sought out for Ubuntu 11.04 +. In the video he shows how he set a .SVG image as his desktop background coupled with a small python script running in the background to manipulate and continually change aspects [...]
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Installing applications from .deb files has changed for the better in Ubuntu, with the Software Centre now taking over the procedure.
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Multitasking, app drawer, task manager
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Linux Games
(by Crusader)
Unigine, developers of their eponymous cross-platform 3D engine, have announced that their next game, Oil Rush, will be released for Linux: Press release after the jump. Tomsk, Russia – September 1, 2010 – Unigine Corp. announced today OilRush naval strategy game for Windows, Linux and PlayStation 3. The game is based on the proprietary Unigine™ [...]
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Stephen Ewen has announced the release of a lightweight edition of UberStudent, an Ubuntu-based distribution designed for learning and teaching academic computing at higher education and advanced secondary levels: "Like the full edition of UberStudent, the lightweight edition is designed around a 'core skills' approach, which centers on....
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Linux Games
(by Crusader)
Frictional Games, developers of the Penumbra series, have announced that their newest survival horror game, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, has gone gold! We at Frictional Games are happy to announce that Amnesia: The Dark Descent has gone gold. We are extremely pleased with our creation and cannot wait to unleash our bundle of madness on [...]
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Canonical has announced the availability of the Ubuntu 10.10 beta release. The new version of the popular Linux distribution, codenamed Maverick Meerkat, is scheduled for final release in October. It brings some noteworthy user interface improvements and updated software.
The beta ships with GNOME 2.31, which introduces support for the new [...]
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While there is Oktoberfest in two weeks, in just a week and a half there is the annual X.Org Developers' Summit. This year's summit for these developers is taking place in Toulouse, France. The event was going to be hosted at a conference room at the University of Toulouse, but [...]
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Beta mongoose flaunts new face. Review Ubuntu fans, fire up your virtual machines. The beta release of Ubuntu 10.10 is here. Maverick Meerkat, as this release is known, is actually several weeks ahead of the original schedule, and that means Ubuntu 10.10 is on track for its final release October [...]
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Zentyal, formerly known as eBox Platform, is a multi-purpose Linux distribution based on Ubuntu server. It can function as a network gateway, unified threat manager, office server, infrastructure manager, and a unified communications server. It is developed and maintained by Zentyal, a software solutions provider based in Spain. Though it [...]
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Try the Maverick Meerkat.
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Two weeks have passed since Wine 1.3.1 was released, so Wine 1.3.2 has been pushed out this Friday afternoon. Though there isn't too much to get excited about in the Wine 1.3.2 release with there only being a few noteworthy changes...
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A month ago we reported that the Amnesia game was getting ready for a Linux release and now the Swedish developers behind this game, known properly as "Amnesia: The Dark Descent" have released a demo of the game. Frictional Games has released this demo for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS [...]
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Contrary to popular belief, Google Wave is not quite dead. Google plans to expand upon the open source code it has already released to form a more complete, standalone application known as "Wave in a Box." Wave will work (or not work, depending on how you look at it) as [...]
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OpenSource.com
(by suehle)
Clifton Tunnell, a patent attorney registered to practice before the USPTO and associate of Anderson Dailey, LLP in Atlanta, GA and Andrew Norton of the United States Pirate Party and previously Pirate Party International, presented “Three Strikes and You’re Out” in the Electronic Frontiers Foundation (EFF) track at Dragon*Con 2010. [...]
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For those who were hoping for some sort of direction from Oracle concerning OpenOffice.org during this week's conference in Budapest, you're going to be sadly disappointed.
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Synaptic is a graphical package management program for apt. It provides the same features as the apt-get command line utility with a GUI front-end based on Gtk+.
We all knew this was going to happen at some point since there is a lot of work going on for the Ubuntu Software [...]
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Free Software Magazine
(by Tony Mobily)
Dear Readers,
As you are subscribers to Free Software Magazine, chances are you already know my name.
Up to this point, I made sure I would send “newsletters” that were always articles that I considered important and that felt I wanted to share with you. This time, I have three things I [...]
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Linux Journal
(by Michael Reed)
Clonezilla is a bootable CDROM designed for partition backup and restoration. Unlike SystemRescueCD, Clonezilla Live doesn't contain an array of utilities, rather, it is a single, focused tool.
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The GNOME foundation has set a record profit for the month of August, thanks in part to the Amazon MP3 affiliate scheme which is embedded in Banshee Media Player.
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Linux.com
(by Nathan Willis)
Last weekend, we looked at how to enable your Web site to accept OpenID logins. But accepting OpenID authentication is only half of the issue — if you care about online privacy and identity, the chances are that you will want to control your own OpenID. Fortunately, setting up your [...]
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If there's one aspect of Gnome Shell that many users don't like it's the inability to switched between windows as quickly as that of a traditional taskbar or dock.
With the following extension by a developer called Torb you can easily add a dock-like bar to the right-side of your screen [...]
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IT World
(by ITworld staff)
For a system that was designed to make programming as simple as possible Google's App Inventor is still pretty complicated.
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There is just two weeks to go until Munich's 177th Oktoberfest gets underway (though it's the 200 year anniversary) and again there will be a Phoronix presence this year at Oktoberfest...
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Elementary for Firefox is a theme which not only it looks gorgeous, but it also comes with 3 variations: tabs on top, Mac and Win so it should be (almost) perfect for any taste:
(Tabs on top)
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Of course, you don't need to use Windows or Mac to install those two themes, [...]
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ComputerWorld UK
(by cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (InfoWorld staff))
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Recently I’ve done a number of articles covering the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) which range from installation, adding entries, to full-blown GUI management tools (See LDAP content on Ghacks for more information). If you’re in the dark about LDAP is an application protocol that allows the querying and modifying of directory services data implemented on IP networks. Basically [...]
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As promised, in this post I discuss the new website design, decisions I had to make, trade-offs and the process I went through to establish a nice style. You also get some "behind the scenes" images and information on the history of how the design was born over the last [...]
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Nuxeo have announced that, as part of the IKS european project, they are working with partners in the project to develop an open source semantic engine with a RESTful interface, dubbed fise
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Many users remained awed and paranoid over the extent of data that Zeitgeist is able to collate and display – from what song you were listening to when you were writing up your shopping list in Tomboy to which picture you were editing at 6.23pm on the first Tuesday in [...]
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The tool allows users and IT professionals to harden existing software against known attacks - without the need to recompile
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Legacy OS is a new name of a distribution formerly known as TEENpup Linux, a Puppy-based operating system for older computers. Version 2010 was released yesterday: "After eight months of development I am proud to offer Legacy OS for download. This release marks the moving away of Legacy....
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This article explains how you can use the DNS Templates in ISPConfig3
to allow layman to enter domain data without any previous knowledge on
the subject.
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As solid-state drives are becoming very popular with enthusiasts and a common choice for those interested in high-performance data storage, at Phoronix we have reviewed many SSDs from OCZ Technology including the Agility, Agility EX, Vertex, and Solid 2. Today we are reviewing the next-generation Vertex SSD, which is the [...]
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Muktware
(by Muktware Bureau)
Google recently terminated Wave, but instead of purging the code the company will be releasing the source code of the project.
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The wildly popular Elementary theme for Firefox we shared news of earlier this week is now available to download.
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Users concerend about the appearance of the current default wallpaper in Ubuntu 10.10 beta may be pleased to hear, from Mark Shuttleworth no less, that a 'revamped' default wallpaper is being made in light of user feedback.
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Linux Insider
(by Kimberly Hill)
Toshiba has announced its own entrant into the tablet market with the Folio 100, which will run on the Android 2.2 operating system. Sporting a screen just over 10 inches, the device will be larger than other early competitors to Apple's iPad tablet computer, such as the Dell Streak. The [...]
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If you read this blog regularly, then you probably don't need any lecture on Equinox themes. Equinox GTK Theme + Faenza Icon Sets are probably the best combination of themes I have ever found for my Ubuntu. Last day, I was doing my regular repository update when I noticed some new [...]
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Softpedia
(by Softpedia News (Marius Nestor))
BitTorrent Inc. proudly announced a few hours ago the immediate availability for download of the first alpha version of uTorrent Server for Linux and UNIX-like operating systems!The uTorrent Server application provides a state-of-the-art implementation of the popular BitTorrent protocol and a full-featured WebUI (web-based user inter...
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Secunia has updated its Personal Software Inspector (PSI) with the ability to silently download and apply patches from multiple vendors soon after their release. PSI 2.0 is now available in an open beta test,
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When you open up a browser session and visit Web sites and click on hyperlinks, do you feel a little apprehensive about the possibility of drive-by malware getting installed on your PC? I sure do, even though I keep my antivirus/antimalware software and other security measures active and up to [...]
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Ubuntu 10.10 has strived to build on the choices of Lucid, bringing bleeding edge versions of software whilst maintaining the stability that Lucid provided. Join Ubuntu developer, Dave Walker, as he takes an insiders look at Maverick Meerkat as it approaches completion…
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The KDE PIM team has made available a beta version of the next-generation groupware client suite Kontact. The new Kontact is built on the Akonadi framework, sharing infrastructure for syncing with online services across applications. While the first bits of Akonadi integration already made their entry in KAddressBook as delivered [...]
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Mozilla Labs renames the Bespin cloud-based IDE as Skywriter and moves development of a new "all JavaScript" version over to GitHub
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Three months after the previous update, the Songbird project has released version 1.8.0 of its open source media player, adding support for USB mass storage device class (also known as USB MSC or UMS) on Mac OS X systems and a number of new devices
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The openSUSE project has released the first milestone release for version 11.4 of the openSUSE operating system. The development preview features a updated, faster package management system
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Muktware
(by Muktware Bureau)
VMware and Novell have announced the general availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware. It is seen as the first step in the companies' expanded partnership announced in June of 2010.
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Canonical has released a beta for version 10.10 of Ubuntu, code-named "Maverick Meerkat". The development milestone is the first and only planned beta and will be followed by a release candidate at the end of the month
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Muktware
(by Swapnil Bhartiya)
Apple iPod clearly dominates the portable music/video segment. Even Frenimies like Microsoft failed to upset the iPod market with Zune. It seems only Linux is capable of giving Apple the best fight, and offer users with better alternatives.
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Intel and the 4tiitoo developers have confirmed that their upcoming WeTab tablet will run the Linux-based MeeGo mobile operating system
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The Android tablets are coming as Toshiba plans to release its Folio 100 in the fourth quarter of this year and to give it its own software store
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Maverick Meerkat skips Alpha 4. The beta instalment of Ubuntu's Maverick Meerkat has arrived slightly earlier than expected.…
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For the last couple of ubuntu versions, gnome-screensaver, which is also the gnome screen-locking program, has been using gtkbuilder .ui files for configuration; unfortunately almost all of the third-party themes (e.g. on gnome-look.org) use .glade files. Here’s how to convert a .glade file to a .ui file for use with current versions of gnome-screensaver: (...)Read [...]
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OpenSource.com
(by directorfreemed)
The FreeMED Software Foundation has been involved with a medical clinic and teaching project in Guatemala for some time. The project, hosted by Pop-Wuj, a non-profit Spanish language school in Xela (Quetzeltenango), Guatemala, hosts a medical clinic for the poor in the city and surrounding pueblos.
The project, through the efforts [...]
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Ubuntu 10.10 beta has gone live for download in line with Canonical's release schedule. Read more here...
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Google Wave's legacy will be "Wave in a Box", an open source Wave server and client for real time collaboration
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The Ubuntu developers are moving quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source community has to offer. The Maverick Meerkat Beta is the beta release of Ubuntu 10.10, bringing with it new features for the next version of Ubuntu. This is a beta release. Do not install it on production [...]
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I am absorbed by two different real-life projects these days, both with due dates in close succession, so I’ll apologize for the gaps over the past few days, and the gaps that are sure to follow over the coming week. But just because I haven’t updated doesn’t mean things haven’t [...]
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When Google launched its Chrome Web browser in 2008, it was clear that the product had considerable potential. Its emphasis on performance and its intriguing minimalistic user interface attracted a lot of well-deserved attention. Today, exactly two years later, Chrome has over 80 million users, a 7.52 percent global market [...]
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There's just one month and one week to the release of Ubuntu 10.10 (it's being released on 10 October, a.k.a. 10.10.10) but today the beta release of the "Maverick Meerkat" is out in the wild...
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Let me help you become the master of presentation. Let me help you earn that fat annual bonus. Read my short tutorial explaining how to solve OpenOffice Impress slideshow slowness by disabling hardware acceleration and anti-aliasing, plus other troubleshooting tips revolving around other components, like Java, VBA and macros.
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Oracle released VirtualBox 3.2.8, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 3.2 which improves stability and fixes regressions. (...)Read the rest of Virtualbox 3.2.8 released and ubuntu installation instructions included (507 words) © admin for Ubuntu Geek, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: desktop, install Virtualbox 3.2.8 in ubuntu 10.04, install [...]
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Robbie Williamson has announced the availability of the beta release of Ubuntu 10.10, code name "Maverick Meerkat": "The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 10.10 beta." Some of the interesting new desktop features include: "The GNOME base platform has been updated to the current....
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Linux Games
(by Crusader)
FreeOrion, a turn-based space empire and galactic conquest game, version 0.3.15 has been released. Changes include: Planets now have only a single focus selection as secondary focus settings and the balanced focus option were removed. Scriptable species definitions have been added. Species now have names, icons, focus settings, environmental preferences, food consumption and effects associated [...]
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Like you probably know, the uTorrent developers said they will be releasing uTorrent for Linux a while back. The first step has already been made with the release of a headless uTorrent client for Linux which you can control through the WebUI (Web User Interface). There is also work ongoing for the [...]
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IT World
(by ITworld staff)
One of the most confusing things for the newcomer to Linux is how many distributions, or versions, of the operating system there are. Ubuntu is the one most people have heard of, but there are hundreds of others as well, each offering some variant on the basic Linux theme.
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Back in January we posted a video with an amazing Plymouth theme called "Space Sunrise" created by Andre "Osku" Schmidt. The theme was available for download at the time, but at some point the download link stopped working and since then I've received lots of emails asking for a download [...]
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TweetGuess where did I play Quake III Arena for the first time. Not place, I am talking about the platform/Operating System. Nope! its not windows, its Linux . Surprised, right? I was too when I found this brilliant opensource version of Quake III Arena aka OpenArena.
While looking for a good [...]
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Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Beta has been released seconds ago.
There have been many changes and updates in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat since Alpha 3, so let's take a look at what's new - in both Desktop and Netbook editions. We've already posted most of these changes when the packages were [...]
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A lot has changed in Ubuntu 10.10 since last months Alpha 3 release, and when I say ‘a lot’ i really mean a lot. Download links can be found at the bottom of this post, but before you scroll join us as we take a breezy visual tour of everything [...]
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Softpedia
(by Softpedia News (Marius Nestor))
A few minutes ago, the Ubuntu development team unleashed the Beta version of the up-coming Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) operating system, due for release in October 10th, 2010. As usual, we've downloaded a copy of it in order to keep you up-to-date with the latest changes in the Ubuntu 10.10 [...]
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Linux Journal
(by Susan Linton)
Despite some early teasing, it now seems Steam is not coming to Linux after all - at least for now.
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Muktware
(by Swapnil Bhartiya)
I just saw Net Applications report showing that Apple's iOS has overtaken 'Linux'. I wonder if that is true. I am struggling to understand the Net Application matrix; I was never good at maths.
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The second international conference organized by the openSUSE project is set to happen on October 20, 2010 in Nuremberg, Germany. With the motto "Collaboration across Borders", the 4-day event is expected to be loaded with interesting talks, discussions, and other fun-filled activities. All openSUSE and free software users, developers, and [...]
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It is reported that Microsoft recently obtained patent for "Operating System Shutdown". In simpler words, Microsoft now holds the intellectual property rights for 'shutting down an operating system'.
Sounds crazy isn't it? But before criticizing Microsoft, think about the patent system that made this happen in the first place. Unbelievable.
Abstract of the PatentA [...]
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This year's theme: "Servers, The Cloud, and Innovation"
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Ubuntu Customization Kit (UCK) is a tool you can use to customize the official Ubuntu Live CDs by adding additional language packs, applications and so on. It doesn't just work for Ubuntu (GNOME), but also for Kubuntu / Xubuntu and Edubuntu.
To make it easy for Ubuntu users to stay up [...]
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Read the entire article here.
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Muktware
(by Swapnil Bhartiya)
NASA has released the NASA App HD, a new mobile application designed for the iPad. The application is available free of charge at the App Store from Apple.
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Linux Questions
(by Jeebizz)
"Dell has pulled out of bidding for 3Par after rival Hewlett-Packard raised its offer for the data storage company to $33 a share, or $2.1bn (£1.34bn)."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11166772
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Linux Questions
(by Jeebizz)
"Electronics giant HP has joined the world's second-largest memory chip maker Hynix to manufacture a novel member of the electronics family."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11165087
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With the first Beta – and only, but who’s counting – of Ubuntu 10.10 due for imminent release our super-talented friend Joern has whipped up something extra special for your enjoyment – a Ninja-styled 10.10 Meerkat wallpaper for use on your phones! And yes, he assures me that it does, [...]
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This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid
and PHP5 on OpenSUSE 11.3. mod_fcgid is a compatible alternative to the
older mod_fastcgi.
It lets you execute PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners
instead of the Apache user.
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Muktware
(by Swapnil Bhartiya)
Apple goes by numbers and adjectives. How many devices sold is a sort of a monthly PR exercise. As usual Steve Jobs started off his September 1 presentation with numbers. Eric Zeman of Information Week reports, "He said that Apple is activating 230,000 iOS-based devices per day. But, there was [...]
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Bored? Want something to read? You could do a lot worse than to spend your time reading this superb nerdtastic story by one self-confessed geek and his brother...
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Not all BitTorrent apps are made equal. Yes, there's a big range of features such as support for encryption and random port access, but at the same there's also a huge range of speeds - some BitTorrent apps are simply much faster than others. To save you the time of [...]
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Title: Mike May Vary
In this episode: Sony was legally allowed to remove the 'Other OS' feature from the Playstation 3, according to Australian lawmakers. Glibc is now really free and KSplice gets into Fedora. We report back from the mid-point of our games development challenge, and ask, what's your favourite [...]
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On the second anniversary of the release of the first version of Chrome, Google has released version 6 of its Chrome web browser into the stable and beta channels which also closes critical holes
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VMware and Novell have announced the availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for VMware, building on the companies' expanded partnership announced earlier in June of this year
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Twitter officially disabled Basic authentication this week, the final step in the company's transition to mandatory OAuth authentication. Sadly, Twitter's extremely poor implementation of the OAuth standard offers a textbook example of how to do it wrong. This article will explore some of the problems with Twitter's OAuth implementation and [...]
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Source code which can be used on programmable developer boards to circumvent the Playstation 3's security systems, analogous to a PS3 Jailbreak, has been released under the name PSGroove
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Android 2.2-powered, Flash-enabled, 7-inch touch screen.
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Linux Questions
(by Jeebizz)
"The global disparity in fixed broadband access and cost has been revealed by UN figures."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11162656
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Linux Questions
(by Jeebizz)
"Samsung has become the latest challenger to enter the tablet computer battle, unveiling its Galaxy Tab at the IFA conference in Berlin."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11163687
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Linux Insider
(by Richard Adhikari)
Samsung has unveiled its much-discussed Galaxy Tab Android-powered tablet at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, Germany. The device runs Android 2.2, has a seven-inch display, and focuses on connectivity and entertainment. It also enables video conferencing and can be used as a mobile phone.
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The first milestone release of openSUSE 11.4, which will be released in March of 2011, is now available. The openSUSE 11.3 release came in July and since then for openSUSE 11.4 the Novell and community developers have pulled in X.Org Server 1.9, GNOME 2.32 Beta 1, KDE Software Compilation 4.5, [...]
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You don't need any introduction of OMGUbuntu. They are by far the most popular Ubuntu blog out there. They had a complete site overhaul recently and I have to say, OMGUbuntu website looks absolutely gorgeous now.
I would say OMGUbuntu is not only a hugely popular blog now, but also the [...]
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