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Roundup of Vim Articles (All about Linux)

3 d, 16 h and 56 min ago

Here are Six articles on Vim which have been widely read by the visitors to this blog. These articles on Vim will surely motivate you to try out this powerful text editor.

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Fedora 10 released with engaging new features (All about Linux)

7 d and 12 h ago

Fedora 10 codenamed "Cambridge" has been released. This new version of the community oriented, Red Hat backed Linux distribution comes with new features which enhance the end user experience. Read on ...

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Download full version of Codeweavers software for free - One day only (All about Linux)

37 d ago

Download the full version of Crossover office and Crossover games for Linux and Mac. And get a legit serial number with one year support thrown in for free. Just for today. Courtesy: Codeweavers.

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Free wallpapers for portrait monitors (All about Linux)

53 d ago

Beautiful wallpapers for normal monitors are dime a dozen. In fact you will find links to quite a collection of wallpapers right on this blog. So what is unique about this set of wallpapers you might ask.

The USP of this collection is that it is optimized and targeted at portrait monitors ...

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Kingston unveils 32GB Linux friendly USB drive (All about Linux)

55 d ago

Recent advances in storage technology has made it possible to literally carry all your data in your pocket. Kingston - one of the major global players in the USB storage and memory market with more than 2,000 memory products in its offing, has unveiled a 32GB USB flash drive called "DataTraveller 150".

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Linux attains adulthood minus one (All about Linux)

59 d ago

Yesterday - October 5 2008, Linux turned 17 years old. That is one year short for attaining adulthood if Linux were a human being. Seventeen years is no mean feat in the life of an operating system. Come to think of it, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, OS/2, all lasted only for a few years before they were superseded by their more mature counterparts. ...

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Ubuntu Articles (All about Linux)

84 d ago

A recap of all the articles related to Ubuntu on this blog.

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Debian successor to Lenny - a three-eyed space alien (All about Linux)

[1 views] 85 d ago

Debian team is infamous for sticking to hard to remember names for each of its releases. Thankfully, they have stuck to one theme while naming the distribution releases - that of the "Toy Story" movie. Each release is named after a character in the Toy Story movie....

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Introducing the New Commenting System (All about Linux)

86 d ago

Your favorite Linux and Open Source blog has gained a new commenting system. It will be in a test phase for some time before it will be made a permanent feature of this blog.

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Browse the Web in Konqueror using only the keyboard (All about Linux)

3 months ago

Konqueror Tip : A handy tip in KDE's Konqueror web browser to surf the web using only the keyboard. Read on ...

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Search engines Yahoo and Google learn to crawl Flash sites (All about Linux)

5 months ago

Statistics show that Adobe's Flash is installed in a whooping 98% of computers connected to the internet. Using Flash, a web developer is able to give his imagination a free reign and build gorgeous multimedia intensive albeit equally functional sites.

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Firefox - Guiness Book of World Records Certificate. (All about Linux)

[1 views] 5 months ago

Would you like to own the "Guiness Book of World Records Certificate" in your name for being a part of Firefox history ? Then look no further because the good guys at Mozilla are providing a personalized copy of the certificate in your name - free for download.

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OpenSUSE 11.0 released (All about Linux)

5 months ago

OpenSUSE has released its latest version aka 11.0 today. This version contain cool innovations and new features. Some of them being inclusion of KDE 4.04, a brand new themed installer, latest Linux kernel (2.6.25.4) and a slew of features specific to OpenSUSE.

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Wine 1.0 - The first stable release of Wine after 15 years of development (All about Linux)

5 months ago

After 15 long years of active development, Wine software which makes it possible to run native Windows applications, has reached it's milestone 1.0 version. What are the features of this new stable release of Wine you ask ? Well, one of the prerequisites of the version 1.0 release ...

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Next time you see a shooting star in the sky; Guess what it is. (All about Linux)

5 months ago

A NASA engineer answers one of the age-old questions every kid has: What happens when you go to the bathroom in outer space? A little insight into zero-gravity toilet design.

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Opera 9.50 web browser released (All about Linux)

5 months ago

Opera releases its newest version of web browser namely ver 9.50. And it comes with a slew of new features. Check out the enticing features built into Opera web browser 9.5. For once you are sure to get hooked.

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MySQL - Cheat Sheet (All about Linux)

[1 views] 6 months ago

MySQL is a small, fast and highly configurable DBMS. It supports a number of different table file formats, depending on the requirements of the user. These are the main MySQL clients and processes (mysqld)...

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Unbreakable Linux - Free Linux DVD set from Oracle (All about Linux)

[1 views] 6 months ago

Would you like to receive a free DVD of Oracle's Unbreakable Linux shipped to the location of your choice ? Then don't miss the chance. Because Unbreakable Linux is an enterprise class Linux distribution with truck loads of features ....

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Power sessions with screen (All about Linux)

[4 views] 6 months ago

Screen is a full-screen window manager for the console, that comes with every flavour of Linux and UNIX. It is best known for multiplexing a physical terminal across several processes. By using it, you can run any number of console-based applications within a single terminal.

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BBC's take on the open source alternative (All about Linux)

[2 views] 6 months ago

Of course you know what open source and Free software means. Or else you wouldn't be visiting this blog and reading its articles in the first place. But it is always nice to get the point of view of a main stream media. And if the media in question is the BBC, then it gets all the more sweeter.

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Fedora 9 Sulphur released (All about Linux)

[3 views] 6 months ago

It is yet time for another major release of Fedora Linux. The latest avatar of Fedora namely version 9 is code named Sulphur. If you are piqued by the strange names of Fedora, then you should read this article to get a better perspective. So what is in store for all Fedora fans out there ? Quite a few things really.

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Book Review: C++ GUI Programming with Qt4 (All about Linux)

6 months ago

Qt is a cross platform application development framework which is widely used for the development of GUI and non-GUI programs. Some of the most visible products which have been developed using Qt are KDE, Opera web browser, Google Earth, Skype and Photoshop Elements just to name a few.

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A small form factor Linux PC for the Marines (All about Linux)

[1 views] 7 months ago

A regular reader of this blog would be aware of mini Linux PC's which fit on the palm of your hand and which is targeted at end users. Now what would you say if I told you that there exists a miniature Linux PC which is targeted at the Military ?

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Slackware 12.1 released (All about Linux)

[2 views] 7 months ago

Which Linux user wouldn't know about the venerable Slackware ? The same one which has been elevated to cult status through the efforts of a single person Patrick Volkerding. Over all these years when flashy Linux distributions like Ubuntu rule the roost, Slackware has been successful in retaining its followers.

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Guide to adding a new partition or drive to an existing system (All about Linux)

[1 views] 7 months ago

Suppose you are required to create a 10 GB partition on your server running Linux, you have got two options namely :
Create a partition from the unpartitioned space on your machine or
Add a new drive.

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Enable DVD playback in Ubuntu Linux (All about Linux)

[2 views] 7 months ago

I am sure any Ubuntu user will swear by the fact that it is a piece of cake getting multimedia to work in Ubuntu. In fact Ubuntu walks a fine line in ensuring that the users who are passionate about freedom and those who are keen on functionality are provided for.

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Linux file system hierarchy - the fun easy way (All about Linux)

[1 views] 7 months ago

I have been asked by many people to explain the file system hierarchy in Linux because they find the file system in Linux quite different from what they are used to in Windows. To put it simply, it can be visualized as a tree with its roots and all.

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100s of beautiful wallpapers free for the picking (All about Linux)

[2 views] 7 months ago

No matter what OS I am running on my machine, one thing I really like to do is, adorn my desktop with is a beautiful, aesthetic, less distracting and pleasing to the eye wallpaper. I like my wallpapers to be vivid with colors but at the same time not be an eye sore.

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Understanding XML in 10 seconds or less (All about Linux)

7 months ago

XML also known as eXtended Markup Language is a language created to structure, transport and store data or information. But that is the most simple explanation. In reality, there is much more to the semantics of XML.

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Ubuntu Hardy Heron - 8.04 LTS Desktop and Server Edition Released (All about Linux)

[1 views] 7 months ago

The next major release of Ubuntu has taken place. The new name being Hardy Heron. It is released as a Long Term Support (LTS) version. Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop edition is supported till year 2011 (3 year support) and the server version is supported till 2013 (5 year support).

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