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Are You Intimidated By Breakfast Cereal?
oreilly.com: An article by Graham Morrison for Tech Radar UK this past week struck a bit of a raw nerve for me. " The trouble with Linux: there's too much choice." To Mr. Morrison and all the others who have written articles like this one I say: Hogwash!
September 2010 Issue of The PCLinuxOS Magazine
The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the September 2010 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine. In the September 2010 issue: LXDE: An Overview, Alternate OS: Syllable, Part 1, and Game Zone: Battle For Wesnoth.
KDE SC 4.5 – Desktop Activities Exposed
everydaylht.com: However, the lead developer of plasma, Aaron Seigo, has promised further development around Nepomuk, potentially taking desktop activities to a whole new level:
Ubuntu 10.10 Beta Screenshots
- Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Beta Screenshots Gallery
- Preview: Ubuntu 10.10 Beta
- Ubuntu Software Centre handles now .deb installations in Maverick
- Full Circle Side-Pod #3: Where’s the Neurotic Numbat?
today's leftovers:
- Jos Poortvliet: Banshee & GNOME
- MySQL Connector Released for OpenOffice.org
- CAOS Theory Podcast 2010.09.03
- Keep On Rockin’ Me Baby (Banshee)
- Unofficial OpenSUSE FAQ - www.opensusefaq.org
- Interviews from GUADEC, Part 3
- Ridiculous Findings
- Neofonie WeTab now runs MeeGo Linux
- Review: Mandriva 2010.1 Spring
- Zeitgeist Log Manager (Mockup)
- Collapse of M$
some howtos:
- Blender 3D 2.9: Working with Textures
- CentOS: Change that hostname
- Linux Tip: How to check your aliases?
- Improve speed of your Linux by using preload
- GnuPG : A wonderful security tool
- Installing KDE wallpaper add-ons in Kubuntu
No 64-bit (x64) Firefox 4.0
softpedia.com: If you’re holding your breath while waiting for the 64-bit (x64) flavor of Firefox 4.0, feel free to exhale now.
Debian 7.0 to be called "wheezy"
debian.org: We will continue to use Toy Story character names for squeeze's successor. The next release will be called ``wheezy.''
Finding more women to speak at Ohio LinuxFest: success!
ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot: With a little outreach effort, and embracing diversity as a core value, the Ohio LinuxFest has successfully recruited more women to share their experience at OLF.
Linux distributions update for Web flaw
itworld.com (IDG): A number of Linux distributors have issued patches for fixing a widely used program that fetches Web pages, called Wget, so it can not be misused by attackers.
Some useful utilities
scottnesbitt.net: Utilities. They’re what help make computing a lot easier and more convenient, no matter what operating system you use. Linux users are spoiled when it comes to utilities.
8 Questions with John Carmack
maximumpc.com: John Carmack needs no introduction - since 1991 he's been the main engine development guy for id Software. Shortly after his 40th birthday, we caught up with the tru engineer for a quick 8-question Q&A.
Also: Duke Nukem Forever May Show Up at PAX today
Synaptic Is Going Bye Bye Soon
webupd8.org: Paul Tagliamonte, an Ubuntu LoCoCouncil and BeginnersTeam Council member confirmed in a comment on Reddit that Synaptic will soon be removed from Ubuntu.
Also: Ubuntu 'Maverick Meerkat' erects own App Store
Mint 9: Minty fresh Linux
blogs.computerworld: Linux distributions come through my office in a constant flood. Most of them stick around long enough for a quick try-out on one of my test systems or on a VirtualBox virtual machine. A few find permanent homes.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent Demo Released!
linuxgamingnews.org: Today Frictional Games, the makers of the Penumbra series, has released a demo for their upcoming first person survival horror “Amnesia: The Dark Descent”.
Opera 10.62 Release Candidate Released
opera.com: It is about time for an update to our stable branch and hence we have a nice new 10.62 build for you. The fixes listed below are since the 10.61 final.
Beleaguered Novell Buoyed by VMware Linux Deal
eweek.com: Despite faltering financial results, Novell pushes on with partnerships such as that with VMware for the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware.
Clonezilla Live
linuxjournal.com: 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.
Confessions from a Relatively New Linux User
mandrivachronicles.blogspot: As a plain user, I spent more than eleven years of my life mastering life-saving secrets to protect my Windows system. Then, Vista came along with its bothersome "Are you sure you want to to this?" and virtually the same problems XP had. I began suspecting that there should be more to life than that never-ending sense of vulnerability.
fedoraproject.org redesign update
mairin.wordpress: Well, in the past month Fedora design ninja Jef van Schendel and I have been cranking out mockups and Sijis Aviles has been doing an awesome job making the mockups a reality and getting things into staging and building things out. So we’ve got quite a few things to go over here.