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+ This Dyson Is Not Cleaning Your Floors + Remember not too long back when there was talk about Valve Software porting Windows games over to Linux? How about when there was talk [...] a lot of activity since…until now. Enter Dyson, provided by the Steam client for Windows and Linux platforms. So while the [...]

+ Swiftly Growing Tired Of Firefox Lag + For many folks, there have been issues of Firefox just not preforming quite as well as they might have liked. At least on the Linux [...] to implement solutions. The most obvious, of course, is to look to an alternative such as Opera. Unfortunately, because some [...]

+ SSH Is Sexy And Fast Pt2 + In part one, I showed you how to do all of the heavy lifting involved with getting yourself ready to do a little remote control ...

+ SSH Is Sexy And Fast Pt 1 + PCAnywhere, GotomyPC…these are great for Windows users with more money than time, but what about those of us on Linux who want [...] hairs? Ah, this is where a hardened SSH install can do wonders for you. What would you say to a script that will allow you to [...]

+ The Evolution Makeover + I have been using Evolution for my email and calendar for what seems like years now. Despite once being a heavy user of Kmail and then [...] the defining program for me that keeps me in the GNOME universe. And according to this article, it seems that yet again, we are [...]

+ WYSIWYG Web Editor Remix + Not all web editors are created equal. And to that end, I would introduce you to one called Amaya. Developed by W3C, this software [...] doe so with some pretty amazing grace. As one might expect, both HTML and CSS are well supported, in addition to having the kind [...]

+ Later Ubuntu - Time For PCLinuxOS + Normally when I read an article about someone writing about dumping Ubuntu/Kubuntu for another distro, I tend to write them off as yet [...] troubleshooting. Yet in this instance, the author of the piece is a fairly well known Linux guru. So hearing that she is looking [...]

+ Ubuntu Themes - Take The Frown Out Of The Brown + Ubuntu, out of the box, has some pretty nasty looking themes going on. I will give KDE fans that much. And truth be told, most distros [...] to be desired as well. Luckily distros such as Ubuntu make adding themes so easy. And with this in mind, I recently decided [...]

+ Monitor Triple Threat + As most linux using NVIDIA and ATI owners already realize, setting up two monitors on most popular Linux distros is pretty simple [...] drivers for the video card and the GUI control panels for each, should you wish to avoid slipping into “command line [...]

+ Investing In The Little Guy + Like many people, I believe that a open source mentality can go much further than simply making the code to software available for [...] Kiva, crowd-funding demonstrates just how powerful large groups of individuals working together to fund others can be. With so [...]

+ Is Windows Ready For Prime Time? + It’s an interesting look as to whether or not Windows is ready for the mainstream market. Besides the fact that the article is [...] the way despite being a bit biased. Points made about security (running as admin), drivers and other frustrations for the most [...]

+ Must Have Linux Software + I’ll have to admit, this is a mighty fine list of great Linux apps. And just as impressive is that this list contains both GTK [...] along the way. The linked list above appears to be providing both closed and open source applications, most of which are really [...]

+ OSS Vs ALSA + While I am a happy full time desktop Linux user, I am not really a Linux sound expert. Don’t get me wrong, I am passingly ...

+ No Need To Upgrade Just Yet + As I first came upon this article making the claim that people seeking “faster” PCs being a bit misguided, I have to admit [...] agreeing with them to a degree. It’s true that most people find themselves upgrading their PCs because it’s what [...]

+ A Whole New Way To Linux Desktop + When most of us think about the Linux desktop, we generally think of KDE, GNOME, etc. But today I happened upon one desktop option for [...] way I look at at the Linux desktop and the applications that run on it. Enter Étoilé, a desktop that is like most other Linux [...]

+ Are Netbook Returns An Operating System Problem? + To date, the problem of netbook returns apparently remains a problem due to performance issues. And while some have pointed out that [...] some might point out that a computer is only as good as the OS it runs. For Windows users, XP might be just fine on a typical [...]

+ Five Things I Do With Every Ubuntu Installation + Everybody uses their desktop a little differently. For me, using Ubuntu means freedom of hassle, believe it or not. Why? Because of [...] install ubuntu-restricted-extras - That single line of code can save at least a 100 wasted forum posts a day about Flash, java, [...]

+ Sony Walkman Skips Robot Right To Android + Speaking as a guy who grew up with one of the original Sony Walkman cassette players in the early 80’s, I still have hopes for [...] version, I think that with a revamp of technology Sony can perhaps breathe in some new life to an otherwise iPod ruled concept [...]

+ Version Control With Git + Created by Linus Torvalds to manage development of the Linux kernel, Git has become the principal tool for distributed version [...] also means that some users don’t understand how to use it to their best advantage. In Version Control with Git, [...]

+ An App Store For Linux Is Old News + Sometimes the things come back full circle like they are “new and brilliant ideas” have me doubling over in laughter. No, [...] Most notably, with the now defunct Lindows/Linspire Linux distro. In the era of version 4.5 - 5.0, CNR as it was called, was [...]

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+ VMware and Parallels for Virtual Machines + It doesn't matter if you're running on Windows or Mac OS X - every power user needs either Parallels or VMware [...] all the fuss is about. Run Windows in OS X, run Linux in Windows, but the best way to do either is with VMware and/or Parallels .

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