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Story | today's howtos | Roy Schestowitz | 14/03/2015 - 2:45pm | |
Story | Leftovers: Gaming | Roy Schestowitz | 14/03/2015 - 2:45pm | |
Story | Leftovers: Screenshots | Roy Schestowitz | 14/03/2015 - 2:44pm | |
Story | Open-Source Solutions As A Business Model | Roy Schestowitz | 14/03/2015 - 1:15pm | |
Story | Review: LibreOffice 4.4 raises the bar | Roy Schestowitz | 14/03/2015 - 1:01pm | |
Story | GNOME Photos Gets a Bugfix Update, Just in Time for GNOME 3.16 | Roy Schestowitz | 14/03/2015 - 12:00pm | |
Story | SageTV to go open source (four years after Google acquired the media center/DVR software) | Roy Schestowitz | 14/03/2015 - 11:51am | |
Story | 'Utterly unusable' MS Word dumped by SciFi author Charles Stross | Roy Schestowitz | 14/03/2015 - 11:23am | |
Story | Watch Your Freedom (Because Apple's Not) | Roy Schestowitz | 14/03/2015 - 9:59am | |
Story | 5 best Linux distros for beginners and newbies | Roy Schestowitz | 14/03/2015 - 8:00am |
Truly Honest Linux Opinions
Submitted by srlinuxx on Thursday 26th of March 2009 01:11:01 PM Filed under
lockergnome.com: Without a doubt, this is one of the most honest Linux articles I have read in a very long time. Speaking for myself, as someone who uses Linux on most of his desktops/notebooks each and everyday, I see the Linux situation as follows.
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Spruce Up KDE With All the Productivity Tools You’ll Ever Need
Submitted by srlinuxx on Thursday 26th of March 2009 01:09:22 PM Filed under
worldlabel.com: There’s no question computers make our lives easier, especially with all the productivity tools available today. If you use the KDE desktop, then you may already know that there are many wonderful productivity applications designed especially for KDE.
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The Perfect Server - CentOS 5.2 [ISPConfig 3]
Submitted by falko on Thursday 26th of March 2009 12:35:06 PM Filed under
This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 5.2 server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3.
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Firefox fix due next week after attack is published
Submitted by srlinuxx on Thursday 26th of March 2009 10:49:22 AM Filed under
computerworld.com: Online attack code has been released targeting a critical, unpatched flaw in the Firefox browser.
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Htop, for system monitoring your desktop
Submitted by srlinuxx on Thursday 26th of March 2009 10:47:43 AM Filed under
freesoftwaremagazine.com: You don’t have to be an uber system administrator of a network to use Htop. It might have been designed with the masters of the universe in mind but just because you are a mere solitary desktop user in a Pizza-strewn study room staring at a single machine doesn’t mean you can’t get it and use it too.
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Hey, Red Hat - Open-source help still lousy?
Submitted by srlinuxx on Thursday 26th of March 2009 10:46:38 AM Filed under
theregister.co.uk: It's been exactly a year since former Delta Airlines vice president turned Red Hat chief executive Jim Whitehurst criticized open-source vendors for doing a lousy job of getting customers involved in the community and projects.
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Ubuntu 9.04 vs Fedora 11: A lot can change in one month
Submitted by srlinuxx on Thursday 26th of March 2009 10:44:26 AM Filed under

subbisays.blogspot: The excitement has already started in anticipation of Q2 2009 l distro releases. As usual, the big names are Ubuntu 9.04 (a.ka. Jaunty Jackalope) and Fedora 11 (Leonidas). It's time for a straight off comparison.
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today's leftovers:
Submitted by srlinuxx on Thursday 26th of March 2009 04:00:17 AM Filed under
- Five great, obsolete operating systems
- The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 10 Years
- The correct way to file bugs in Ubuntu
- Novell Launches Suse 11 With Eye On Virtual Appliances
- Kernel Hackers On Ext3/4 After 2.6.29 Release
- Why I love Unix
- Linux Outlaws 83 - Beard Fetish
- A newbie turns to Linux
- Ubuntu promises DIY Amazon cloud
- OSBC Keynote Competition — IBM Won
- Why virtualisation is struggling to keep up
- Reportbug finally has a GUI
- Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex on my Thinkpad T42 Ticks me off
- Ubuntu Server Edition Training… From Mark Shuttleworth?
- Jono Bacon: Painting The Community Manager
- MES 5 beta-test launches
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some howtos:
Submitted by srlinuxx on Thursday 26th of March 2009 03:00:43 AM Filed under
- How to Repair a corrupted filesystem in Ubuntu
- MySQL command-line tip: compare result sets
- How to fix Ubuntu Jaunty's ridiculous behavior
- Finding A Process's Idle Time On Linux And Unix
- Writing GNOME Docs, Part I
- Gentoo: Tips to upgrade your really old installation
- Uppercase to lowercase with tr
- Troubleshooting Network Problems
- Commandline101: Creating Symbolic Links
- Breaking out of a script
- OpenBox and Terminal Transparency
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Gnome global menu in KDE4
Submitted by srlinuxx on Thursday 26th of March 2009 12:35:50 AM Filed under
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Red Hat profit beats forecasts, shares rise
Submitted by srlinuxx on Thursday 26th of March 2009 12:32:08 AM Filed under
reuters.com: Linux software maker Red Hat Inc reported profit ahead of Street projections on Wednesday , helped by cost cuts and a stock buyback, sending shares up 8 percent.
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Microsoft not feeling TomTom Linux patent chill?
Submitted by srlinuxx on Thursday 26th of March 2009 12:30:18 AM Filed under
internetnews.com: I asked Sam Ramji senior director of platform strategy at Microsoft about TomTom the other day and he claimed that patent issues aren't causing any chilling effect on his part of Microsoft's open source plans.
Also: The importance of Microsoft’s position paper on open source
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digiKam image editor and zoom level...
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 25th of March 2009 10:05:40 PM Filed under
digikam.org: Following this old bugzilla entry, about to use a better image scaling algorithm for image editor canvas, i decided to perform some comparisons between Showfoto and other photo editors.
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Is there life after Windows?
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 25th of March 2009 10:04:31 PM Filed under
independent.co.uk: Linux is free, easy-to-use and is shedding its geeky image, thanks to fans who prefer it to Microsoft's mighty operating systems. But is it for everyone? Jamie Merrill asks four rookies to put it to the test
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Five Essential Ubuntu Modifications
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 25th of March 2009 10:03:07 PM Filed under
workswithu.com: Some of these modifications are essential to get certain features to work, one of them is something I couldn’t do without. Here are my five essential Ubuntu modifications.
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Just For Fun: 13 Free Linux Games Worth Trying
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 25th of March 2009 07:59:30 PM Filed under
classhelper.org: Everyone needs a little down time every now and again. Whether you’re taking a break from hours of programming, trying to calm a conference-induced headache, or just relaxing at home, these Linux-based games offer a nice chance to unwind.
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GZIP vs. BZIP2 vs. LZMA
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 25th of March 2009 07:57:30 PM Filed under
odzangba.wordpress: There’s no nicer way to say it… I’m running out of disk space. I have three options: buy a larger hard drive, delete some files to free up space, or compress some of the data.
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Giving Linux That 'XP' Factor
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 25th of March 2009 07:55:30 PM Filed under
pcworld.com: I have a solution for your XP woes. Unless you've been lobotomized, you might think you've guessed what it is: Linux. But you would be wrong. I don't generally recommend Linux. I recommend Ubuntu.
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3 Great Ways To Rotate Your Linux Desktop
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 25th of March 2009 06:03:31 PM Filed under
hehe2.net: If you are like me, then you probably get bored of your desktop wallpaper quickly. Then why don’t you rotate them? I know its nothing new really, and there are many ways to do that on your Linux desktop, but like all thing Linux, there is no one clear cut way to do it. There are several roads leading to Rome!
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Memory usage in Firefox 3.1 Beta 3
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 25th of March 2009 06:02:17 PM Filed under
dedoimedo.com: A few days ago, I have reviewed Firefox 3.1 Beta 3. It's quite lovely. It boasts improved Javascript performance, it comes with new usability and privacy features, it supports future HTML multimedia elements ... But nowhere in that article did I mention the memory usage. For a good reason.
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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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Exploring Contributors Centrality Over TimeAt the end of my previous post we concluded with yet another question. Indeed, on the 2017 KDEPIM contributor network we found out that Christian Mollekopf while being a very consistent committer didn't appear as centrality as we would expect. Yet from the topology he seemed to act as a bridge between the core contributors and contributors with a very low centrality. This time we'll try to look into this and figure out what might be going on.
My first attempt at this was to try to look into the contributor network on a different time period and see how it goes. If we take two snapshots of the network for the two semesters of 2017, how would it look? Well, easy to do with my current scripts so let's see!
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