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• Linux command line language translation 1 year, 1 month ago
  
  It has been a long time since we came out with our bash script for command line language translation, and we've finally gotten our head's out of the figurative bowl of spaghetti and found a great online project that already handles this sort of thing. You need to know all those different ways or you'll end up skinning your cat the same way over and over.
• Epiphany, the ultimate GNOME browser 1 year, 1 month ago
  
  Is Epiphany right for you? Well, maybe. You should probably be using Ubuntu, not Kubuntu, Xubuntu, or the other derivatives. You should also probably prefer ease of use and simplicity over power (not that Epiphany doesn’t have power). And you also have to accept that Epiphany won’t have as many add-ons as Firefox, although there are a lot. If you’re OK with all of the above, Epiphany is a great option.
• Web site for the KDE Utilities launched 1 year, 4 months ago
  
  At utils.kde.org you can now find a lot of information about the KDE Utilities.
• GUADEC breaking new ground, starting from Istanbul 1 year, 4 months ago
  
  The ninth European GUADEC conference in Istanbul earlier this month not only set the direction for GNOME 3.0, the next major release of the Unix and Linux desktop, there was also plenty of action on the GNOME Mobile front.
• Lighten up your desktop with LXDE 1 year, 4 months ago
  
  LXDE is a new project to provide a lightweight and fast desktop environment. It's designed to keep resource usage low and leave all components independent. It looks good too.
• Ah Another Opportunity for Desktop Linux 1 year, 4 months ago
  
  My colleague Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols recently wrote a piece on his fine Practical Technology blog called Dear Microsoft, Thanks for the help, Linux in which he argues that Microsoft’s ill-timed decision to cut off easy access to XP tomorrow (June 30th) combined with its announcement it would be releasing the next version of Windows in January, 2010 effectively lends a death blow to Vista and creates a huge opportunity for desktop Linux. With all due respect to my esteemed colleague, this is not the first time I’ve heard such a prediction.
• Top 10 Linux financial tools 1 year, 4 months ago
  
  "Many people don't realize the wealth of applications that are available for Linux. I am asked all the time about X and/or Y application on Windows and whether there's an equivalent on Linux. Most of the time the answer is yes .... "
• Apple vs. Google vs. Linux vs. Microsoft: the fight for the desktop is on! 1 year, 5 months ago
  
  " ... Linux is beginning to get some actual traction, showing up on a number of low cost 'Netbook' offerings and MID (Mobile Internet Devices); it is starting to look like even this platform may have some legs .... "
• Five ways the end-user desktop will look different in five years 1 year, 5 months ago
  
  "eWeek's Debra Donston has penned down five ways the end user desktop in enterprises will look different in five years. While some of her ideas and predictions make a low of sense, there are a few things which are slightly debatable. Mostly, the reliance on virtualization and web applications."
• Desktop Software Still Alive 1 year, 7 months ago
  
  As I’ve said before, developers are the lifeblood of an operating system. Without them, an operating system would be lifeless and not that exciting.
• Step by step: using Samba to join a Windows domain 1 year, 7 months ago
  
  "In this article, I give you the steps you need to use Samba to join to a Windows domain. The primary domain controller will serve as the password server for the domain .... "
• Hassle-Free PC 1 year, 11 months ago
  
  Personal computers were supposed to make our lives easier. Instead, these beasts have turned us all into part-time IT administrators, our lives given over to downloading upgrades, installing patches and updates and drivers and antispyware, decrypting error messages and screaming at stalled applications. Enough!
• Xmonad 0.4 released 2 years, 1 month ago
  
  Xmonad 0.4 has been released. "xmonad is a tiling window manager for X. Windows are arranged automatically to tile the screen without gaps or overlap, maximising screen use ... Window layouts are applied dynamically, and different layouts may be used on each workspace. Xinerama is fully supported, allowing windows to be tiled across several physical screens ...."
• Publishing high-quality documents with Kile 2 years, 1 month ago
  
  "TeX and LaTeX produce impeccably laid-out documents, and are the only practical way to show some mathematical equations. This GUI tool acts as an "integrated development environment" for the command-line document preparation tools .... "
• I have lost my Wow 2 years, 1 month ago
  
  "Last week, I mentioned that Mozilla is planning to give the Firefox browser a makeover. Alex Faaborg had mentioned that they plan to integrate the look of Firefox with Microsoft's Windows Vista and Apple's Mac OS X. The problem was Alex had failed to mention anything about the Linux operating system .... "
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