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Archive for March 11th, 2007

Debian Package of the Day

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

“The Debian project has started a new webpage: the ‘Debian package of the day.’ It does what it says — every day another package from the Debian repository is posted with an elaborate description and some nice screenshots. As Debian (and all the other distributions as well) contains way too many packages for it to [...]

TaxGeek 2006

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

Your Open Source Solution to Tax Time
TaxGeek is a Mozilla-based US income tax program that includes Form 1040, Schedules A, B, C, C-EZ, D, E, K-1 (1065), SE (Short and Long), W2, Form 8880, Form 8863, Form 3903, and Form 2441 with access to most other files as PDFs. It is also intended to be [...]

How to flash motherboard BIOS from Linux (no DOS/Windows, no floppy drive)?

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

 
You’ve finally made the move to a Windows-free computer, you’re enjoying your brand new Linux OS, no trojans/viruses, no slowdown, everything’s perfect. Suddenly, you need to update the BIOS on your motherboard to support some new piece of hardware, but typically the motherboard vendor is offering only DOS based BIOS flash utilities. You panic! Fortunately, [...]

Open Source alternatives to popular Windows and Linux Programs

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

Osalt.com is a site to help you find open source alternatives to popular software.
From their site:
Our mission is to provide easy access to high quality open source alternatives to well-known commercial products. And remember that open source software is also a freeware alternative.
You can search based on commercial application and it [...]

Review: Elive 0.6.5

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

Enlightenment. Linux users who have been around for awhile no doubt remember this X11 window manager. I remember using in around 1999 and 2000 myself. Since then KDE and GNOME have grown by leaps and bounds and that’s where most of my GUI usage been since then. Every once in awhile a new story pops [...]

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