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today's leftovers & howtos:
- GIMP howto: Attack of the Clones!
- Install/Run Turbo C/C++ IDE on Linux
- Going Linux Sep 05: #113 - Listener Feedback
- Add desktop icons to KDE and GNOME
- GNOME Activity Journal gets major performance improvements
- Linux Beginners Q&A | LAS! s13e06
- Stripes – KDE be free, freeBSD
- GUI Program to install ath9k_htc (Atheros Linux Driver)
- Cardapio - A lean application menu and launcher for Gnome
- Screenshots from 120Mhz
- Anamnesis - A New Linux Clipboard Manager With Full-Text Search
- Fedora Systemd Test Day on Tuesday 2010/09/07
Xubuntu 10.10 Beta Screenshot Tour
webupd8.org: Xubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, the XFCE Ubuntu flavor got a lot of changes since the 10.04, starting with a new default wallpaper and theme:
Unified Stop Reload Go button comes to Firefox 4
mozillalinks.org: Pieces keep fitting in for the Firefox 4 theme refresh. Recent development nightlies now feature the planned stop-reload-go button next to the location bar.
Myth: Linux only has 1% market share
linusearch.com: Opponent’s of the Open Source and or Linux community are quick to point to reports that claim that Linux only has a 1 percent market share or a little over. What is the truth about the adoption of Linux?
A prickly questionnaire
mandrivachronicles.blogspot: When people see my OS, they always ask the question "What version of Windows is that?" I answer that I use Linux and most of them look at me as if I had spoken a word in some sort of an alien language.
Lightweight Distro Roundup
- Lightweight Distro Roundup: Day 11 – PCLinuxOS LXDE
- Lightweight Distro Roundup – The verdict
The Many Faces of Linux
ostatic.com/blog: Linux may have started out small, but it’s grown by leaps and bounds. Today, Linux can be found on everything from a home wireless router to the gigantic mainframe in the data center.
Free Software Needs Free Tools
mako.cc: Over the last decade, free software developers have been repeatedly tempted use of proprietary tools in the creation of free software. From BitKeeper to SourceForge to Google Code to GitHub, non-free tools and services have played an important role in free software development and continue to create a number of subtle but important problems for our community.
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 updated
debian.org: The Debian project is pleased to announce the sixth update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (codename "lenny"). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustment to serious problems.
I’ve Moved On …
artwales.biz: My first encounter with Ubuntu was with Hardy Heron, also known as Ubuntu 8.04. This was sometime in 2008, about the time it was released. It was the 8th iteration.
WTF is Unity Linux? A self faq-interview thing
spiralofhope.wordpress: So it occurs to me that I’ve never really sat down and talked about Unity Linux. I’ve engaged in bunches of discussions and have even popped in on some early forum posts when Unity Linux was just conceived, so that I could correct things.
Could Oracle fracture open source community?
blogs.techrepublic.com: An Oracle was a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinion. How can that particular definition be applied to Oracle the company? It can’t. In fact I would claim that Oracle, the company, is quite the opposite of “wise” or “prophetic”.
openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 139 is out
Now we are ready. We’re pleased to announce our new openSUSE Weekly News #139. Enjoy it!
today's howtos & leftovers:
- Linux Tip: How to instantly spell suggestions?
- Nightingale - Songbird Fork Soon Going to Have First Release
- How to turn Ubuntu into a Gaming platform?
- Hidden Linux: Moving /home
- Strategy Sucks (openSUSE)
- Some notes on Flash in Debian and Debian Edu
- The BSD Show! – 2010-09-01
- Linux Containers and Networking
- Compiz Vignetted dim
- How to Edit the Context Menu in Firefox
- Summary of Less command
- Custom hardware modeling with QEMU (ELC 2010)
- How to install Web Developer Tools in Ubuntu
- Ubuntu: Restore the Keyboard Command for Killing the X Server
- Speeding Up Debian GNU/Linux Desktop Performance
Driver dilemma in KDE workspaces 4.5
martin-graesslin.com/blog: KDE is currently blamed for errors in external components: the graphic drivers. I am lately reading quite some crap that we KWin devs knew about problems in the drivers and shipped 4.5 nevertheless with changes enabled which trigger the driver bugs. That is of course not true.
More Details On Unigine's OilRush Game
phoronix.com: A few days ago Unigine Corp announced OilRush, their first in-house game that's coming from the creators of one of the most advanced multi-platform engines. Unigine developers are also fond of Linux and properly support it with the OilRush game receiving the same level of support and there will be a Linux client on launch-day.
GTK Impression – Scrollbars
projblog.com: The most notable design element of a GTK theme are the scrollbars and I’m amazed how the basic design has persisted over the years.
Maturing as a Linux Systems Administrator
ostatic.com/blog: We had a visit from a vendor the other day, one who sells high end Unix hardware. The meeting was informative, and overall went well. While I was walking the vendor out of the building, he turned to me and told me how learning his version of Unix would really help me as I matured in my profession.
No 64-bit version of Firefox 4.0?
linuxcritic.wordpress: I got up this morning and saw "No 64-bit (x64) Firefox 4.0," which led me to a pretty serious WTF moment, all before having my morning coffee.