Richard Stallman answers the top 25 questions from reddit readers. <p> A fascinating interview …

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This tutorial shows how you can set up an OpenSUSE 11.3 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you …

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Since Intel’s N450 Atom processor boasts such excellent power-saving capabilities over previous chips, it has powered almost all netbooks released in the same period – Toshiba’s mini NB300 was no exception…

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It’s a sad truth that advancements in technology often make jobs obsolete, usually sooner than most people are ready. The more savvy workers learn to keep up with the times, and adapt their skills to make the best use of their experience, without becom…

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On the heels of the highly-anticipated release of Wine 1.2, CodeWeavers, Inc. today announced the simultaneous release of CrossOver 9.1 and CrossOver Games 9.1 for both Mac and Linux.

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SimplyMEPIS is a simply wonderful distribution. It was the first to offer a complete out of the box experience all tied up in a pretty package. It would be fair to say that it was probably the…

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The developers behind the GNOME project have gathered in the Netherlands this week for the annual GUADEC conference. During a meeting that took place at the event, the GNOME release team made the difficult decision to delay the launch of GNOME 3, the n…

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Whether you are an owner of an ATI FirePro V3800 that retails for just over $100 USD, the proud owner of an ATI FirePro V8800 that goes for over $1,300 USD, or any of the FirePro products in-between, you will want to update your graphics driver when AM…

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The Amiga was one of the most powerful PC’s of it’s time, easily trumping the emerging IBM PC’s in the 80′s. You can relive this classic PC on your Linux desktop thanks to a number of emulators that are available.

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This how-to will teach you two commands, iftop and nethogs, that you can use to monitor network traffic on a Linux machine. You can use iftop to view traffic by individual connection, port, network segment, or remote host, which gives you a detailed ac…

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We have seen already how to install latest version of empathy IM in Ubuntu from PPA, now lets do some customizations with its look and feel.

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ZFS is often looked upon as an advanced, superior file-system and one of the strong points of the Solaris/OpenSolaris platform while most feel that only recently has Linux been able to catch-up on the file-system front with EXT4 and the still-experimen…

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Are you ever overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of open source software projects produced by the community? Even when looking at just a subset — such as graphics applications. Let’s examine each design field in turn. We’ll start by describing the l…

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For Amarok 1.4 lovers, there is more good news. Gereqi is yet another Amarok 1.4 fork, which is still in its early stages of development. And it is already looking good.

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OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 was released on June 4 and a new master workspace was branched off for the upcoming 3.3 on June 5. The code in this branch will be stabilized and later become the product release that will find its way onto your desktops. With the …

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Well known Bugzilla Bug 1612 “Can’t start VM when vif set and udev version is greater than 151? is also affecting xenified aka Suse kernel 2.6.34-12-xen. The workaround for the issue might be udev downgrade from 157 to 151. Following bellow is step…

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This post is the second in a series on shell script debugging, error handling, and security. The content of this post will be geared mainly toward BASH users, but there will be information that’s suitable for users of other shells as well. Informatio…

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Mark Shuttleworth said, “Moving everything to the left opens up the space on the right nicely, and I would like to experiment in 10.10 with some innovative options there.” So if you guys are wondering what did he even meant by that, you have take a…

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As was widely anticipated, today AMD is rolling out their Catalyst 10.7 graphics driver for Windows and Linux platforms. On the Windows side, their Catalyst 10.7 rolls out support for OpenGL ES 2.0. ATI Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000/5000 series graphics car…

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Android 2.2, AKA "Froyo," was announced amid wild phone-nerd scenes a couple of months back, although we’re yet to see much of it in the wild. The only phone currently running a non-hacked version of Google’s latest OS incarnation is the Nexus One, with all the other Google-powered smartphone users of the world still anxiously scrolling up and down the ‘About Phone’ page waiting for an over-the-air upgrade to arrive.

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Why do some people choose to run Linux as their PC platform of choice while others opt instead for other ways of running their computing experiences? Is it market share, perceived ease of use, slick marketing overtures, users wanting to use what they a…

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Measures to optimise the power management code and fully support the Turbo Core function of recent AMD six-core processors increase the data throughput and processing speed of Linux 2.6.35. Further kernel additions include tracing interfaces for KVM, a…

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In which Frank get a revelation from an Irish drinking song, George comes in from the cold (sort of), and the FBI launches a nation-wide manhunt for you know who.

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The GNOME and LiMo Foundations have today announced their intention to collaborate closely with a key partnership. With immediate effect the LiMO Foundation will become a member of the GNOME Foundation’s Advisory Board and the GNOME Foundation will b…

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As was mentioned in last Friday’s article, Which Is Faster: Debian Linux or FreeBSD, tests of FreeBSD atop the ZFS file-system (rather than UFS2+S) are currently underway and those results are expected to be published in full later this week as the ZFS…

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Saxophone? Check. Digital recorder? Check. Camera? Check. Ready to rock & roll. Or do some blues. A bit of jazz? How about some Zydeco. Honky Tonk?
We’ll see when we get to the Second Street…

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The idea was to gather 20 kids, ranging from 3rd to 5th grade and teach them how a computer works. We were going to use perfectly good computers, take them apart, teach the kids how to identify the components, teach them the function of said components…

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If you’ve read me long enough, you know I am a desktop junkie. Much to Jaqui’s chagrin, I do love my desktops. So much so I could have a different desktop every day and still not be completely happy. During my trials and tribulations with the Linux des…

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LXer Feature: 25-July-2010

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I recently got the Compiz Screensaver running on my Ubuntu Linux system. This is a somewhat experimental plugin and so this plugin is not included by default with Compiz.

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