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Featured Download: FTP File Transfer Across Platforms with Filezilla 3.0

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): Formerly Windows-only free, open source FTP client FileZilla upgrades to version 3.0, adding cross-platform support and a few small feature updates, most notably an…
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Super-Easy Ubuntu Setup From Windows - For Windows Users Eager To Try Linux

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

Wubi is an Ubuntu installer for Windows that lets you install and uninstall Ubuntu from a Windows desktop. Ubuntu is installed within a file in the Windows file system, this file is seen by Ubuntu as a real hard disk. That way the hard drive does not have to be repartitioned before the Ubuntu installation.
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IBM throws weight behind OpenOffice.org

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

PC giant underlines its support for OpenDocument Format by joining the OpenOffice.org community and committing to provide programming input to the project.
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Free firewall SmoothWall 3.0 released

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

SmoothWall has released the latest version of its open source network firewall - SmoothWall Express 3.0. Code-name Polar, this version claims huge advances on Version 2.
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Linux Drivers Just Got Better!

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Printer Manufacturer Brother is now supporting Linux, and besides providing the drives on an RPM or Debian package, they also provide step by step instructions on how to get them working. It took me about 45 minutes to get a multi-function unit printing AND scanning over the network using openSUSE 10.2
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Latest VirtualBox 1.5 runs Windows apps directly on your Linux desktop

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

The new VirtualBox brings seamless virtualization to Linux. This puts Linux on par with the Mac - users can run their preferred native desktop but still launch the odd Windows-only program when they need to. The VirtualBox site doesn’t have much detail on the new feature, so here’s the good, the bad, and the ugly […]

Ubuntu Linux Training Software that runs on Windows and Mac only

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

You have got to appreciate the irony
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Inside the Mind of the Man Who Tried to Milk Linux

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Wired News talks with Darl McBride, head of SCO Group, who is widely reviled as the man who tried to shake down Linux. We learn why an unrepentant McBride believes his company was right to fight and what it’s like to be hated by open-source geeks.

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Clean Up Ubuntu Grub Boot Menu After Upgrades

Friday, September 7th, 2007

One of the things in Ubuntu that has always driven me crazy is the addition of new items into the grub menu without removing the old entries that likely don’t even work anymore. I’m sure most experienced Ubuntu users already know how to do this, but here’s the method anyway.
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X.org releases version 7.3, gets hotplugging support

Friday, September 7th, 2007

Today marked the mildly delayed new release of X.org version 7.3, which corresponds to server version 1.4. The so-called killer feature of this version of X is the new support for hotplugging of input devices (such as keyboard, mice, touchscreens) as well as output devices (monitors, projectors, and so forth).
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