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One Microsoft Employee Documents His Switch from Windows to Linux

Monday, April 30th, 2007

When did I become such a tool?
“What was able to drain the marrow of life from my body and leave only hollowed-out shell of the man who once occupied this space?
Six years ago I began working for Microsoft.”

Read more: Making The Switch
~LC
Posted by LinuxChick - Baldys Paradox

Quinn Storm personally discusses Beryl

Monday, April 30th, 2007

Today, we interviewed Quinn Storm, the initiator of the Beryl project.
What does Beryl do? For those of you who are only recently entering our marvelous free software world, Beryl is a window manager — it’s a program in charge of drawing window borders on your computer screen. Now, you’ll probably be saying to yourself Window [...]

NVIDIA GeForce 8500GT 256MB Benchmarked on Linux

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

 
The GeForce 8500GT is NVIDIA’s value-priced contender in the GeForce 8 series. The 8500GT has a 450MHz core clock and 400MHz memory clock, but how is this $100 creation able to compete against other graphics cards from ATI and NVIDIA? We have our hands on the passively-cooled Gigabyte GeForce 8500GT 256MB graphics card and have [...]

Qt Apps Community Sites Launched

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

 
Some days ago the the community around the web sites KDE-Apps.org, KDE-Look.org, etc launched two new web sites: Qt-Apps.org and Qt-Prop.org. Both sites will be a home for presenting Qt based applications like kde-apps.org already is for presenting KDE applications. The difference between both new sites is that Qt-Apps will be pure FLOSS only, while [...]

ScribeFire

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

I love it!!
Compared to BloGTK, ScribeFire is faster, and has more options.
Posts pop up in seconds and I can post to more than one category, which wasn’t possible in BloGTK.
Yep, this is a keeper!
Thanks Baldy, for finding this little gem! Guess you are good for something…
~LC
Posted by LinuxChick - Baldys Paradox

This is release 0.9.36 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

What’s new in this release:
- Midi support in the CoreAudio driver.
- Mixer support in the Alsa driver.
- A lot of MSI fixes.
- Implementation for most D3DRM functions.
- The usual assortment of Direct3D fixes.
- Lots of bug fixes.

Source: winehq.org
~LC
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AfterStep 2.2.5 released!

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

April 27, 2006 - AfterStep 2.2.5 released!

Lots of changes:
* Everything got touched. It’s all good.
Get it from here : ftp.afterstep.org/stable/AfterStep-2.2.5.tar.gzOr if you already have 2.1.0 or later installed - you can use smaller upgrade packages : ftp.afterstep.org/stable/AfterStep-2.2.5-noimages.tar.gz

I used to love this WM, maybe I’ll have to make some free time to [...]

How To Utilize Your New Multimedia Keyboard Under Linux

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

Overview:
Xbindkeys is a program that allows you to launch shell commands with your keyboard or your mouse under X Window. It links commands to keys or mouse buttons, using its configuration file. It does not depend on the window manager and can capture all keyboard keys.
Prerequisites:
* a keyboard with special/multimedia buttons
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Ten Open Source Security Apps Worth Considering

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

 
Are open source security tools really as secure as those available for sale? Yes, say a growing number of enterprises. While some are understandably hesitant to employ solutions that are openly available to hackers and users alike, many organizations are finding that open source tools not only cost less, they are at least as secure [...]

How To Convert Windows Users To Ubuntu!

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

 
There are some basic things I have learned as I convert more an more people over to Ubuntu and if I don’t I get them curious. I have compiled a list of necessary things people must show off to attract more interest and attention to the open source world of Ubuntu.

 
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