Curious to know about Gutsy Gibbon? A list of improvements of Ubuntu 7.10 is already available in its official website. So, I am not going to duplicate those stuff and will try to tell you about my personal experience with Gutsy Gibbon.
I gave the new Ubuntu a try. As usual, I installed it by using [...]
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1. Type-setting and office
- OpenOffice
Is a complete Office suite package including Writer, Presentation, Spreadsheet, Drawing, and Database applications. It is well suited to academic applications. The features of particular importance are built-in bibliography utility, possibility to export the Text files as LaTeX, BibTeX, MediaWiki, and XHtml, built-in pdf export capability, and good document formatting.
-LaTeX and [...]
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New versions of following FOSS projects are just released.
1. TikiWiki (ver 1.9.8.1): A multilingual Wiki/CMS/Groupware
2. Texlipse (ver 1.2.0): A Latex plugin for Eclipse Java IDE
3. GanttProject (ver 2.0.5): A project management package
4. Notepad++ (ver 4.4): A powerful editor for code development and general purposes
5. KeePass (ver 1.09): A password manager
6. RAP (ver 1.0): An [...]
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This is meant to be a reference post. You can always find this post in the left sidebar under the title “Reference Posts”. I will keep updating this post to cover as many Open Source events as possible. An RSS feed with possibility of importing the events as ICAL and VCAL is available. But, please [...]
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The final version of Ubuntu Muslim Edition (UbuntuME) ver 7.04 is released. This version is composed of a LiveCD/installation CD, a script to convert the original version to Islamic version, a second CD for additional softwares (OpenOffice, Arabic language packages, and Quran recitations), and a DVD with even more Islamic softwares.
Among the other features of [...]
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An infringement lawsuit was just filed against Red Hat and Novell. As far as I know, this is the first ever infringement lawsuit invloving Linux. This is happening just after Ballmer (Microsoft CEO) blamed FOSS community for violation of IP laws. Read the full story here.
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GnuCash is a free and open source package for small business and personal financial accounting. It is developed by a team of developers and is distributed under GNU GPL license. GnuCash is available for several platforms including GNU/Linux, Windows, Solaris, BSD, and Mac OS X.
GnuCash allows tracking the income, expenses, stocks, and bank accounts. Some [...]
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The portable document format abbreviated as “pdf” is the dominant format being very widely used to digitalize the documents. In Windows, Adobe Acrobat Reader can be used to view the pdf files and in Linux applications like Xpdf and a couple of other applications are available for that purpose. But what about editing the pdf [...]
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The latest version of Mandriva linux called Mnadriva Linux 2008 is just released. The new version is available both as combined LiveCD/installation CDÂ and traditional installation DVD. The newest version uses Linux kernel 2.6.22.9. The other important updates are improved hardware detection and integration of new version of default packages. Some of the default packages used [...]
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Have you ever wanted to Login as “root” in Ubuntu and have gotten the message that the “root” is not allowed to login? Actually, that is because loggin as “root” in Ubuntu is neither recommended nor necessary. Doing so can leave your computer more intrusion-prone and, besides that, it could be that you can mess [...]
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