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The new Ubuntu look
blogs.techrepublic.com: Recently it was reported that Ubuntu 10.4 was going to ship with a snazzy new GTK theme that would, by default, enable transparency to bring the Ubuntu GNOME desktop on par with the modern look of, say, Windows 7.
Alternative browsers shine
blog.syracuse.com: As far as I'm concerned, Microsoft ought to get out of the browser business. There are four non-Microsoft browsers that are much better, and they're all free. The company should simply package all four of them with Windows and let PC buyers choose the one they like best.
That’s not bloated, that’s clinically obese
kmandla.wordpress: The biggest surprise (shock?) to me was the stark contrast between performance with only 256Mb of memory, and performance with 512Mb. I tease the Gnome crowd a lot for being chubby, but that’s not overweight, that’s clinical obesity.
Docky: Another OS X-like Doc
ghacks.net: OS X users love their Dock..and with good reason. Not only is it a handy way to launch applications, it’s also rather stylish. I have covered a tool that had a similar look and feel before and although that tool served it’s purpose well, at times it could be a bit buggy. Docky is a little bit different.
today's leftovers & howtos:
- Irssi Handling JOINS/PARTS/QUITS
- How to quickly enter lists in Excel and OpenOffice
- After Digg, now is reddit moves to Cassandra DB
- Hugin Panorama Creator Software for Linux
- DtO: Geekier than Thou
- An open answer to Office
- Heroes of Newerth @ IGF
- Reset MySQL root password
- Fun with Gwibber themes
- Equation Numbers in OpenOffice
- The Coffee Party Uses Drupal
- Will a Linux Pad Ever Exist?
- on re-installing things
- Wolvix linux - A linux distro based on Slackware
- Lucid Sound Applet Gets Improved
- Ubuntu 10.04 Icons Re-Coloured Purple...
Big distributions, little RAM
thelinuxexperiment.com: As you know I am currently running OpenSUSE 11.2 on my laptop. While I have enjoyed my time using it, I have noticed that this particular distribution tends to be on the heavy side of memory usage. This got me thinking.
An insight into wrangles in the Ubuntu community
itwire.com: In a recent interview given to the Ubuntu community site, the fridge, Melissa Draper said "There's some odd politics going on and I've been pushed away from a few things within Ubuntu lately."
MoonOS - Something is amiss
dedoimedo.com: MoonOS is a Ubuntu-based distribution, running the Enlightenment manager. I just came across it one day, no biased feelings, no foreknowledge, nothing. It was a Linux I have not used before and decided to take for a spin.
Reasons to love (and hate) gentoo
convolutedtheory.com: Compiling everything from scratch is awesome for home users, but when you administer hundreds of servers IT SUCKS. Yes, you can set up a binary repository. No, it's not easy.
Amarok Insider - Issue 14
The Amarok Team is happy to announce that we have produced a new issue of the Amarok Insider, our monthly newsletter.
Get to know Linux: shutdown, reboot, startx
ghacks.net: If you use Linux long enough you are going to come face to face with a situation where you are in a GUI-less log in and you’re either going to know what to do or you are not. If you don’t know what to do, you will find yourself in a bit of a bind.
Think local, go ‘open’
thehindu.com: Open source technologies are making significant inroads in governments around the world, avers Gopi Ganapathy, President & CEO, Essentia, US. This is as a result of open source providing significant benefits such as low cost, flexibility of use and modification, lack of vendor lock-in, and most important of all the ability to create drive a vibrant local economy.
Fedora 13 alpha arrives amid controversy
desktoplinux.com: The Fedora project has released an alpha version of Fedora 13. Meanwhile, on LWN.net, Jonathan Corbet reports on the growing controversy in the Fedora community over the quantity and quality of updates.
Ubuntu Art: March
- Ubuntu Art: March
- Ubuntu Lucid and THAT button layout
- Ubuntu’s Circle of Friends Gets Smaller
- Top 10 Ubuntu Apps
gThumb Finally Gets Flickr Support
The gThumb development is getting more and more interesting: after getting PicasaWeb support about a month ago, a branch called "flickr" has been merged, meaning gThumb will finally get Flickr support. We couldn't resist so we updated the package in our PPA to the latest GIT so you (and us) can enjoy this cool new feature.
today's leftovers:
- Dell offers new Mini 10 netbook with Linux in Japan
- CES 2010: Linux on household appliances
- Four Most Unique Ubuntu Derivatives
- I don't like what people tell me is good for me
- The often undervalued opinion of the end-user
- OpenGL 4.0 released by Khronos Group
- Druplipet, a Drupal chia pet
- Resetting a password in Ubuntu
- Google to strip unique client ID from future Google Chrome installs
- Ubuntu 10.10 Release Schedule
- Proof Of Concept: Open-Source Multi-GPU Rendering
- Here comes Linux's iPad clones
- The View from NoSQL Live: Three Takeaways
- FLOSS Weekly 112: Amahi
- Pentagon partially blames Internet for Christmas Crotch Bomber
- Psst! Hey Kid3! Want a great music file tagger?
- Microsoft’s (desperate) open source love affair
some howtos:
- Zero Install Injector - Install software easily and without root privileges
- Epidemic 3.1 installation guide
- Create a bootable CD of PloP Linux
- Unix Tip: Sed & Awk -- Still friendly after all these years
- How to Find and Delete Empty Directories and Files in Unix
- How to install FreeNX server and client in Ubuntu 9.10
- How to install VLC player in OpenSuse 11.2 and play mp3
- 5 Easy Steps to a Remote Linux Desktop
- How to Change the position of buttons in Ubuntu
- Integrating Wine Into Ubuntu With Vineyard
- X2go - alternative to FreeNX
- Postfix – All The Way