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Canonical and Ubuntu may be doing the right thing
Did you ever think that Canonical/Ubuntu’s massive ambitions and accelerated technical path toward them just might work? As I’ve said recently, Ubuntu is always in the position of making its future...
View ArticleUbuntu shouldn’t matter to those who care about free desktops
So Canonical is chaining its desktop Ubuntu Linux distribution to a phone/tablet/TV future, and they want us, the community, to write apps for their in-the-works devices and not care so much about the...
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Delete directly without using/needing Trash in Xfce’s Thunar file manager...
Why do I need to delete in Xfce without first sending things to the trash? Because Thunar otherwise can’t delete directories/folders on a partition outside my main filesystem. Out of the box, the...
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What I’ll be using instead of the soon-to-be-dead Google Reader, plus my look...
Disclaimers first: I’m not a big consumer of RSS feeds. I don’t really use a feed reader all that much. I’m more interested in producing and processing RSS feeds (and I rely on Google’s Feedburner as...
View ArticleWhat is keeping Ubuntu contributors from devoting their attention elsewhere?
If you’re an “elite” Ubuntu contributor, until recently the prospect of Canonical flying you around the world to a Ubuntu Developer Summit seemed all too real. Now that UDS has gone “virtual,” that’s...
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The OpenShot and KDEnlive video editors are available for Fedora from RPMFusion
I’m terrible at searching for RPMFusion packages. Or RPMFusion.org is terrible at helping users search for things. I’m going with the latter. In any case, I had to click around quite a bit before I...
View ArticleOpenSuSE 12.3: In-depth and hands-on | ZDNet
http://www.zdnet.com/opensuse-12-3-in-depth-and-hands-on-7000012698/?s_cid=e539
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Mostly quiet on the Ubuntu community controversy front: Two important posts
At least on the Internet, the frequency and volume of “the Ubuntu community is falling apart at the seams” talk is dying down. Two posts in the past few days are well worth a look: Elisabeth Krumbach’s...
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Could a $99 Kindle Fire 7-inch tablet be on the way?
Though various price points from $159 to $399 are available for Kindle Fire tablets, the Kindle Fire HD currently starts at $199. A $99 price would be quite the game-changer. They’re saying it would...
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Perl, far from dead, is very much alive
Those who use the Perl programming language say it’s nowhere near dead, extremely expressive and ready to solve just about any problem, as seen in this Linux Advocates article. Perl guru (and...
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The official Debian Project blog is here: bits.debian.org
Francesca Ciceri announces on her blog that the Debian Project now has its own blog at bits.debian.org. The blog is called Bits From Debian, and for those who care about such things, it is built using...
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Best post on what’s new in GNOME 3.8 comes from OMG Ubuntu!
This is the new Classic mode in GNOME 3.8. It should bring back many of the GNOME 2.x comforts while retaining features of GNOME Shell for those who want to use them. (Image courtesy of OMGUbuntu!)...
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Q&A with BoingBoing developer Dean Putney: How the popular site handles...
This is Dean Putney’s “official” BoingBoing photo.By any stretch, the eclectic, all-things-geeky BoingBoing.net is big — and not just for a blog. The site describes itself as “A Directory of Wonderful...
View ArticleLinux video and the AMD Radeon HD 7420G in my new HP Pavilion g6-2210us
It’s not looking great for this hunk of new hardware — an HP Pavilion g6-2210us laptop with AMD Radeon HD 7420G graphics — and Linux at this moment. Things look good in 2D, meaning Xubuntu is probably...
View ArticleVideo: Father Shnork Demirjian talks about the Armenian Genocide at St. Peter...
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View ArticleHoly crap: Xubuntu 13.04′s Secure Boot fail and Fedora 18 with Xfce’s Secure...
I still can’t believe it. I’m testing distros on my HP Pavilion g6-2210us, which has optional Secure Boot for Windows 8, and I’ve run into a huge problem. Xubuntu 13.04 boots from a DVD just fine with...
View ArticleEver tried to make a Windows 8 recovery image? ‘Pain in the ass’ covers it
So I have this new HP Pavilion g6-2210us laptop that shipped with Windows 8. It runs with Secure Boot over UEFI. And the Windows product key? Embedded in the firmware. Back in the Windows 7 days, which...
View ArticleDebian Wheezy is out
After more than two years of development, Debian Wheezy has been released.
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