One of the most important aims of the Open Source movement has always been to involve the masses in the movement. Until very recently, this aim has been too much like wishful-thinking. These days, however, there are some reasons to believe that we are close to reach, at least partially, this aim. In [...]
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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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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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VirtualBox (VB) is an Open Source project for virtual machine simulation of x86 computers. By VB you can make one or several virtual computers and run them just as if they were real computers. The package is totally free and binaries are available for Linux, Windows, and OS X. The Source codes are also available [...]
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The latest version of Skype for Linux is just released. You can download it from here. Skype for Linux is available for a number of distros including Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, OpenSUSE, Debian Etch, Mepis, and Xandros. I downloaded and installed the version for Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (ver 7.04).
Although Gaim (a multiple platform messenger) is available in [...]
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I was just reading a Digg story about Vixta (a new Fedora-based distro designed to be eye-candy and user-friendly). In feel and look, it is supposed to be much like Vista. I am going to write down my experience with this new distro
Since I am already running out of space in my laptop, I normally [...]
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In this link, you can find a list of available Computer Aided Design (CAD) packages for Linux which includes a number of Open Source and a number of Commercial packages.
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