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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Just over 3 hours now and the latest version of Fedora, 8, is to be released to the mainstream. 
Some mirrors have prepared with the ISO’s early and some people have already managed to download ISO’s. 
The repositories are also available [...]

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German Web retailer, Manufactum has taken a change in direction from selling hourseware and toys to now offering a sleek, low power mini-PC that runs Debian Linux or as it’s more technically known, The Manuscriptum. 
 
This baby comes with a 500MHz AMD Geode LX800, an 80GB hard drive, 4 USB Ports and offers 1920 x 1400 [...]

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There’s nothing wrong with your Windows XP. It’s all because of the Ubuntu SMB password. 
Check out the vid: 
 
If you have installed Samba but can’t get the Username/Password access then follow these simple instructions: 
# Goto the Terminal
# Type sudo smbpasswd username -a (replace the username with your account name.)
# Leave the password blank by pressing the [...]

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After originally dismissing the concerns expressed by Linux users, Mozilla has finally said yes to a Linux visual refresh to Firefox 3.
Mozilla UI (user interface) design specialist Alex Faaborg wrote a lengthy blog entry last week about plans for the Firefox 3 visual refresh. Faaborg explained the importance of creating applications that visually integrate with [...]

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Linux vendors Red Hat and Novell are being sued for patent infringement by a pair of patent houses in what is believed to be the first such lawsuit involving Linux.
The plaintiffs, IP Innovation and Technology Licensing, say they own US patent 5,072,412 for a “User Interface with Multiple Workspaces for Sharing Display System Objects” issued [...]

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The new revision of Wine, version 0.9.47 is out.
Features
* New scheme for OpenGL support in child windows.
* Lots of fixes for regression test failures.
* A Tahoma replacement font.
* Lots of bug fixes.
As always, you can use the Application DB [...]

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Just over a year after launching, the RM (Research Machines) Asus MiniBook will be making it’s UK debut on 1 November for a mere £169!
The MiniBook will run Linux and RM touted that the laptop boots up in a rapid 15s. However, the most impressive feature is it’s price - £169 ($344/€245) for the 256MB, [...]

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Fluxbox © is yet another windowmanager for X.
It’s based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. Fluxbox looks like blackbox and handles styles, colors, window placement and similar thing exactly like blackbox (100% theme/style compability).
So what’s the difference between fluxbox and blackbox then?
The answer is: LOTS!
Here is a list of features that fluxbox already has, or [...]

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Asus is delivering with the new Asus P5E3 Deluxe Motherboard - a Mobo with embedded Linux.
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe is based on Intel’s new X38 chipset and the embedded Linux feature is called Asus Express Gate. Asus Express Gate is powered by DeviceVM SplashTop Linux desktop.
Without installing an operating system you can instantly surf the [...]

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Haha - i’m loving the name!
Vixta.org is a Fedora-based Linux distribution designed to be user-friendly and eye-catching, similar in look and feel to Windows Vista.
Features
* KDE based Desktop Environment
* Fedora Based Distribution
This flavour of Fedora aims to bring linux to the “masses”, not just sysadmins.
To see [...]

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Last month we reported on SCO’s lastest legal setback when their Copyright claims to the Unix operating system were thrown out by Judge Dale Kimball in their case against Novell. Now it seems the end could be nigh for the embattled Unix vendor who have now filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after finding [...]

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Fedora have released the latest test version of Fedora 8, Test2.
There is a preview with images here.
You can download by visiting your nearest mirror here, there are multiple live versions available including Developer edition, KDE edition, Gnome edition, and FEL edition (for electronic engineers)
stay tuned for our thoughts.
release notes here

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After the release of Beta 2 “The KDE Release Team has revised the release schedule for KDE 4.0. The first visible bits of KDE 4.0 will be the KDE Development Platform release on October, 30. This Development Platform release consists of bits and pieces needed to develop KDE applications. It includes kdesupport, kdelibs, kdepimlibs and [...]

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Simple design, simple message and quite simply genius:

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