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Story | Manjaro Linux KDE 15.09 Gets a Fourth Release Candidate with KDE Plasma 5.4.1 | Rianne Schestowitz | 21/09/2015 - 6:09am | |
Story | New to Linux? You Should Start Right Here - Lesson One: Introduction to Linux | Rianne Schestowitz | 21/09/2015 - 6:06am | |
Story | Worried about Windows 10 privacy? Use Linux | Rianne Schestowitz | 21/09/2015 - 6:04am | |
Story | Tizen 3.0 to Ship with Linux Kernel 4.1, Drops X for Wayland | Rianne Schestowitz | 20/09/2015 - 8:31pm | |
Story | RapidDisk / RapidCache 3.3 now available. | pkoutoupis | 20/09/2015 - 7:49pm | |
Story | GNOME Boston Summit 2015 | Rianne Schestowitz | 20/09/2015 - 8:17am | |
Story | Solus 1.0 Linux Operating System Dubbed Shannon, to Arrive in October | Rianne Schestowitz | 20/09/2015 - 7:46am | |
Story | New Is Here | Rianne Schestowitz | 20/09/2015 - 7:42am | |
Story | Leftovers: KDE | Rianne Schestowitz | 20/09/2015 - 7:37am | |
Story | How Many Smart Devices Running Linux Do You Have in Your Home? | Rianne Schestowitz | 20/09/2015 - 7:29am |
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- Exploring /dev/random vs. /dev/urandom and /dev/zero vs. /dev/null
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Vincent Untz: Explaining GNOME 3
Submitted by srlinuxx on Thursday 16th of September 2010 05:27:19 AM Filed under

opensuse.org: The openSUSE Conference 2010 Sneak Peaks will introduce some speakers and talks to you. Today we feature the talk “Explaining GNOME 3″ from Vincent Untz.
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A Primer on HTML5 <Video> and Why You Should Care About It
Submitted by srlinuxx on Thursday 16th of September 2010 05:23:00 AM Filed under
linuxjournal.com: There is good news: the “open Web”, a vision for the future of the Internet that is participatory, collaborative and free from vendor lock-in is finally coming to fruition.
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rekonq: KDE's Webkit Browser Continues To Come Of Age
Submitted by srlinuxx on Thursday 16th of September 2010 05:16:05 AM Filed under
thebluemint.net: As many of you no doubt know, and a few might not, rekonq is KDE's Webkit-based browser. Under heavy development for a while now, we can see this super-fast browser coming of age in a hurry.
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Adobe Warns Of Flash Bug, Testing new 64-Bit
Submitted by srlinuxx on Thursday 16th of September 2010 05:13:46 AM Filed under
- Adobe Warns Of Flash Player Zero-Day Bug
- Adobe begins 64-bit Flash Player test
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Linux Applications With Peculiar Names
Submitted by srlinuxx on Thursday 16th of September 2010 01:28:04 AM Filed under
tuxarena.blogspot: I'm sure most of us were put before in the situation of discovering a new great application, but had to stop and try to figure out how to actually read and spell its name letter by letter.
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Debian Updates, Code Names, Back Ports, Screenshots, and Derived
Submitted by srlinuxx on Thursday 16th of September 2010 01:26:23 AM Filed under
linuxjournal.com: Things have been anything but quiet on the Debian front lately. Between updating 5.0, naming 7.0, and officially approving backports this has been a busy week for Debian.
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Testing Gnash 0.8.8 On Ubuntu
Submitted by srlinuxx on Thursday 16th of September 2010 01:25:08 AM Filed under
workswithu.com: Late last month, the GNU Gnash project released version 0.8.8 of its open-source flash player, which touts much better compatibility than its predecessors with popular Flash-centric sites, like YouTube. But how well does Gnash 0.8.8 actually work on Ubuntu?
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Audacity Delivers Bold Sound Editing Tools
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 15th of September 2010 10:39:06 PM Filed under
linuxinsider.com: Audacity is no mere virtual jukebox. Sure, it'll play music, but what it's really there for is editing audio files -- everything from MP3s you may have in your collection to recordings you make yourself.
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Choice is Messy (Free Software Likes It That Way)
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 15th of September 2010 10:37:36 PM Filed under
earthweb.com: Does free software offer too many choices? In the last dozen years, the question has been revived more often than the Daleks on Doctor Who.
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5 Reasons Disgruntled Windows User Should Use Ubuntu
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 15th of September 2010 10:35:37 PM Filed under
makeuseof.com: Since I decided to dual-boot my main laptop with Ubuntu, I’ve found myself spending considerably longer in a Linux environment than a Microsoft one. I’m going to try and demonstrate some of my favourite things about the operating system.
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Interview with Aaron Seigo
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 15th of September 2010 08:25:11 PM Filed under

ubuntuusers.de: KDE 4.5 has been released some weeks ago. We take this occasion to interview Aaron Seigo (aseigo).
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Another way for Freedom
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 15th of September 2010 08:22:47 PM Filed under
novell.com/prblogs: This past weekend the New York Times ran a story on how the Russian government has used software licensing to squelch dissent protests and prevent environmentalists and other activists from organizing.
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A Future So Bright
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 15th of September 2010 08:20:59 PM Filed under
itworld.com: There's been a good deal of discussion about my last post about why Linux shouldn't be trying to win. That's gratifying, because discussion like that leads to a reassessment of the overall goals of Linux and other free and open source software (FOSS) projects.
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The Bully In The Linux Schoolyard
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 15th of September 2010 08:19:13 PM Filed under
linuxplanet.com: There are plenty of people who have offered explanations for why Linux thrives anonymously on servers and as Android on smartphones but lags behind on the desktop. Though reasons abound, at least one significant one is a self-inflicted wound: the Terminal Bully.
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Red Hat tops list of hottest IT security certifications
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 15th of September 2010 06:28:16 PM Filed under
networkworld.com: Three of the top 10 IT certifications in terms of demand among U.S. employers are security related, according to Foote Partners, a consultancy that tracks IT employment trends. These include the Red Hat Certified Security Specialist – which ranks as No.2.
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On innovation and participation
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 15th of September 2010 06:25:41 PM Filed under
blogs.the451group: Two of the themes that have risen to the surface in the open source blogosphere in recent week are innovation, and the apparent lack of it when it comes to open source; and participation, and the continued lack of it when it comes to corporate contributions to open source projects.
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why i can not join Canonical's contributor agreement program
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 15th of September 2010 06:23:34 PM Filed under
aseigo.blogspot: It is my personal opinion that Canonical's Contributor Agreement program is, in its current form (as of Sept 2010), flawed such that I can not participate in it due to the risks it brings me and my Free software contributions.
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Goodbye, OpenOffice. Nice Knowing You.
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 15th of September 2010 06:21:04 PM Filed under
earthweb.com: I'm about to do something that will have more than a few people who know me thrashing around and screaming in horror. I'm replacing a free application with one I'm paying money for.
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Windows 7 vs Ubuntu 10.04
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 15th of September 2010 03:46:06 PM Filed under

pcpro.co.uk: Is Linux finally ready for the mainstream? Barry Collins pits Ubuntu against Windows to find out
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Why Everyone should know vimVim is an improved version of Vi, a known text editor available by default in UNIX distributions. Another alternative for modal editors is Emacs but they’re so different that I kind of feel they serve different purposes. Both are great, regardless.
I don’t feel vim is necessarily a geeky kind of taste or not. Vim introduced modal editing to me and that has changed my life, really. If you have ever tried vim, you may have noticed you have to press “I” or “A” (lower case) to start writing (note: I’m aware there are more ways to start editing but the purpose is not to cover Vim’s functionalities.). The fun part starts once you realize you can associate Insert and Append commands to something. And then editing text is like thinking of what you want the computer to show on the computer instead of struggling where you at before writing. The same goes for other commands which are easily converted to mnemonics and this is what helped getting comfortable with Vim. Note that Emacs does not have this kind of keybindings but they do have a Vim-like mode - Evil (Extensive Vi Layer). More often than not, I just need to think of what I want to accomplish and type the first letters. Like Replace, Visual, Delete, and so on. It is a modal editor after all, meaning it has modes for everything. This is also what increases my productivity when writing files. I just think of my intentions and Vim does the things for me.
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