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Linux Command Line For Beginners: Finding Help Documents

2 hours 10 min ago
LinuxPlanet: "A typical Linux system comes with all kinds of help documentation built-in, and a lot of users don't even know it's there. Juliet Kemp is your guide to finding man, info, and HTML help pages."

3G Mobile Broadband on Fedora Core 10

2 hours 40 min ago
KungFu Code Monkey: "The latest feature to really impress me is how easy they've made it to connect to the internet using a 3G mobile broadband connection."

Security and Your Mother's Linux Box

3 hours 10 min ago
Tech Republic: "We know, first of all, that the vendors don't have a proper incentive to ship good quality software, because the vendors don't pay the cost of failure; we do."

The Great Window Manager Speed Test

3 hours 40 min ago
IT Toolbox: "For these tests I used a program called x11perf which does massive amounts of screen redraw tests and reports on the results. How long those tests took I do not exactly know because I started them and then went to bed :)."

Pupils Conquer Fear of Computers

4 hours 10 min ago
BBC News: "Kamal Prasad Sharma, aged 12, a student at Saraswati Secondary School in a small village not far from Kathmandu, was afraid when he saw a computer for the first time."

Easy Peasy Linux Released for Netbooks

4 hours 40 min ago
Eee PC: "Ubuntu Eee is dead, long live Easy Peasy! This is a custom Linux distribution (Ubuntu 8.10 based), optimized for netbooks, especially the Eee PC series."

GOS 3 is Still the Best Linux OS

5 hours 10 min ago
XenStreet: "A few months back I wrote a review about gOS on one of my blogs which received some raving reviews. I did not just review it, but decided to start using it as my default Linux desktop."

Campus Party Brazil - Maddog's Challenge - Multimedia and Free Software

5 hours 40 min ago
Linux Magazine: "This year the challenge will be to create a one or two minute video or audio "advertisement", suitable for displaying on the web in sites such as YouTube and others, but captured, edited and otherwise produced using Free Software"

Destined Incompatibility of OO.o's OOXML Implementation

6 hours 10 min ago
Chao-Kuei's Notes: "Please say it loudly in your blogs or emails, in as non-technical terms as possible. Then we will turn around and show your opinions to the confused governments and journalists who still believe Microsoft's claim that OOXML is an open format, and put an end to that lie."

An Inside Look at How Microsoft Got XP on the XO

6 hours 40 min ago
OLPC News: "As part of a small personal project, I've been reading through the court exhibits presented in Comes V Microsoft. One of those exhibits is a chain of internal Microsoft emails discussing how to get Windows XP on the OLPC."

Everyone's free Linux: DeviceVM's Splashtop

7 hours 10 min ago
Cyber Cynic: "One of the neat things about Linux has always been that you can run it on just about anything: iPhones, xBoxes, PS3, you name it, you can run Linux on it. So, why not, the good people at DeviceVM thought, make a desktop Linux that came bundled in a PC's motherboard: Splashtop."

Next Netbook - Thinner, Cheaper, Better, Linux

7 hours 40 min ago
451 CAOS Theory: "From Freescale’s perspective, and from a Linux fan's, the future looks nice: thinner, cheaper netbooks, many of which will be based on Linux, that run as long as eight hours on a charge."

Acer Aspire One Linpus Linux Lite Recovery DVD Online

8 hours 10 min ago
EeePC: "If you want to recover your Acer Aspire One netbook to its default state, Acer uploaded a disc image on its FTP server from the default Linpus Linux installation."

LCA2009: the Leader of the Band

8 hours 40 min ago
IT Wire: "Leah Duncan loves cheese and salami. And given that fact, the Australian Linux community is probably lucky that she didn't like the micro-organisms used in the making of such foods enough to complete a degree in Microbiology some years ago."

Games As an Alternative Linux Desktop Strategy

9 hours 10 min ago
The Open Road: "Somehow, I missed that. Vaughan-Nichols points to HP shipping Linux, Dell shipping Linux, etc., but come on: a trickle of retail activity does not a "Year of the Linux Desktop" make."

Cisco Lawsuit: A Test for the GPL?

9 hours 40 min ago
Internet news: "The lawsuit between the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and Cisco may be critical in shaping the future of the open source ecosystem, according to legal experts closely watching the saga's next stages."

Famous Awk One-Liners Explained, Part III

10 hours 10 min ago
Catonmat: "This is the third and final part of a three-part article on the famous Awk one-liners. This part will explain Awk one-liners for selective printing and deletion of certain lines."

How On Earth Do You Make A Dime Out Of Linux And Open Source Software?

10 hours 40 min ago
The Linux Distillery: "Software piracy is a scourge on the world of computing. Yet it's a problem the open source community doesn't have. That makes sense; it's all freely available. But this raises the question: if it's free how do the developers make any money?"

Building A Linux Computer: Part 4 - Installing The OS

12 hours 10 min ago
LinuxEdit: "So you have bought the parts, built it and set up the BIOS. Know you are on to the fun part, installing the operating system. Since this article is obviously about building a Linux based system, I was torn between what Linux distribution to use to install on your new computer. After some personal deliberation, I chose Ubuntu Linux for the task."

Bordeaux 1.6 Released for Linux and BSD

13 hours 40 min ago
The Bordeaux Technology Group: "Priced at $20, the software is a low cost add-on to the Free Software package known as Wine. Wine enables BSD users to run many Windows applications on non-windows systems, but until now, a low cost easy to configure version was not available. This new version adds support for Office 2003 based applications as well as offers many improvements over the previous beta release."