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A tour of Empathy IM client 
srlinuxx via tuxmachines.org - Do you waddl on Tue, 19 Aug. 2008
opencomputer.net: Listed on the roadmap to Gnome 2.24 is the integration with Empathy, a multi-protocol IM client. For this article I tested Empathy to see how it works and if it is better or worse then Pidgin (currently my favorite IM client).
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Thoughts on operating systems.
srlinuxx via tuxmachines.org - Do you waddl on Sun, 17 Aug. 2008
alanly.wordpress: I recently purchased a brand spanking new Lenovo T61p notebook and I’ve had to opportunity to try out various operating systems. The ones I have tried have been Linux Mint, Ubuntu Linux 64-bit, and Mac OS X Leopard. After having tried them, I think I’m ready to offer my own personal opinion on things.
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From Firefox to Flock... and back!
srlinuxx via tuxmachines.org - Do you waddl on Sun, 17 Aug. 2008
blogspot.com: Flock is "The" Social Web Browser. Take Mozilla's Firefox, insert native del.icio.us, gmail, blogger and flickr support (to name just a few) and you'll have something close to what Flock has to offer. It is like a Firefox special edition packed full of extensions but, because they are tightly integrated and tested with the code, you'll get a stable and really powerfull browser fo
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gOS 3 Beta, Netbooks, and Linux: An Interview with David Liu, Founder of Good OS
srlinuxx via tuxmachines.org - Do you waddl on Thu, 14 Aug. 2008
laptopmag.com: With the recent release of gOS 3 Beta, we thought it was prime time to take a closer look at the company responsible for creating the OS that powered the ill-fated Everex Cloudbook, and the gorgeous (and Mac OS X Leopard-inspired) gOS Space.
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What Linux Will Look Like In 2012
srlinuxx via tuxmachines.org - Do you waddl on Thu, 14 Aug. 2008
informationweek.com: What will desktop Linux be like four years from now? The single biggest change you'll see is the way Linux evolves to meet the growing market of users who are not themselves Linux-savvy, but are looking for a low-cost alternative to Microsoft.
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gOS: The Ubuntu giant killer?
srlinuxx via tuxmachines.org - Do you waddl on Wed, 13 Aug. 2008
ubuntukungfu.org: The history of computing is one of giants being toppled. Remember DEC and Wang? No? Well, that says a lot. A giant is in the process of being toppled right now.
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More on KDE 4.1
srlinuxx via tuxmachines.org - Do you waddl on Sat, 02 Aug. 2008
sharplinux.blogspot: Okay, I've only used KDE 4.1 for a couple of days and I have a little more to report. The first thing to say that this is my favorite KDE "straight out of the box" that I've encountered so far in my limited experience. Aesthetically, this couldn't be better.
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Vista SP1 and XP SP3 vs. Mac OS X and Linux
srlinuxx via tuxmachines.org - Do you waddl on Sat, 02 Aug. 2008
softpedia.com: Despite constantly downplaying the relevance of Linux and Mac OS X, because of a variety of reasons, from high Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) to security risks and inferior shipment volumes, Microsoft is well aware of the real threat to Windows represented by the open source platform and Apple's operating system.
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What Ubuntu Thinks of a TinyTuxbox
srlinuxx via tuxmachines.org - Do you waddl on Fri, 01 Aug. 2008
gibbalog.blogspot: Tiny, quiet, green, affordable, and fun computers. Put aside that huge noisy computer box taking up so much space, and try a TinyTuxbox. Here's my attempt to look at what Ubuntu makes of this little box.
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Ubuntu's GNOME Nautilus
srlinuxx via tuxmachines.org - Do you waddl on Tue, 29 Jul. 2008
computingtech.blogspot: Nautilus is the Swiss Army knife of the GNOME world. Nautilus is a file manager that helps you to graphically use and manage files, folders, and other resources found on your computer. Nautilus is developed as part of the GNOME project. Linux directories are the same as Windows folders.
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Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1 now available for download
srlinuxx via tuxmachines.org - Do you waddl on Tue, 29 Jul. 2008
mozilla.org: The first developer milestone of the next release of Firefox - code named Shiretoko Alpha 1 - is now available for download. Shiretoko is built on pre-release version of the Gecko 1.9.1 platform, which forms the core of rich internet applications such as Firefox. Please note that this release is intended for developers and testers only.
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KDE 4.1 rocks the desktop
srlinuxx via tuxmachines.org - Do you waddl on Tue, 29 Jul. 2008
linux.com: KDE 4.1 was finally released to the public today. After all the controversy since the release of KDE 4.0, I'm happy to announce that KDE 4.1 simply rocks.
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KDE 4.1 Review: The Rocky Road of the New KDE
srlinuxx via tuxmachines.org - Do you waddl on Tue, 29 Jul. 2008
earthweb.com: With its 4.1 release, KDE is taking few chances. While the 4.0 release's announcement emphasized excitement and significance, the tone of the announcement for 4.1 is more subdued. This time, the announcement talks about maturing technologies and underlying improvements, and the only claim is that the 4.1 desktop "can replace the KDE 3 shell for most casual users."
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Implicit Save KDE vs GNOME
srlinuxx via tuxmachines.org - Do you waddl on Tue, 29 Jul. 2008
obso1337.org: One of the interesting things I learned at the last Ubuntu Developer Summit was the widespread use of implicit save in the GNOME environment. In many cases, implicit save makes a lot of sense and makes the configuration and interaction with options much more natural.
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Second Alpha Release of Amarok 2.0, Codenamed "Aulanerk"
srlinuxx via tuxmachines.org - Do you waddl on Sat, 26 Jul. 2008
dot.kde.org: The Amarok team is proud to present the second Alpha of Amarok 2.0. Development is moving at full speed and a lot of bugs have been fixed since Alpha 1, as well as features polished.
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KDE 4.1: What to Expect
srlinuxx via tuxmachines.org - Do you waddl on Sat, 26 Jul. 2008
dawningvalley.com: Recently, Gnome’s been gaining a lot of ground on its KDE counterpart in the desktop environment wars. The KDE developers were hoping to change this with KDE 4, the new radical release of KDE, but it was not to be.
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Are Gnome and Ubuntu ruining the Linux Desktop?
srlinuxx via tuxmachines.org - Do you waddl on Sat, 26 Jul. 2008
scienceblogs.com: Some current news in the Linuxosphere, and some things going on on my very own desktop, have me wondering about the nature of the Linux Desktop. Are Gnome and Ubuntu ruining the Linux Desktop? And if they are, what do we do about it?
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Ubuntu is everywhere at OSCON (and the Web)
srlinuxx via tuxmachines.org - Do you waddl on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
Ubuntu is everywhere at OSCON
Can Ubuntu win the OS beauty pageant?
Shuttleworth: Make Desktop Linux Better than Apple
Ubuntu man challenges open source to out-pretty Apple
Ubuntu to unveil new version of its Launchpad community next week
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Consonance: A lightweight GTK+ music player
srlinuxx via tuxmachines.org - Do you waddl on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
raiden.net: One of the members of the Arch Linux forums has been developing a new music manager that is advertised as being fast and lightweight. I have been following this thread for a couple of months and decided it is mature enough to try.
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Drizzle, a MySQL fork for web applications
srlinuxx via tuxmachines.org - Do you waddl on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
heise-online.co.uk: MySQL employees have announced a fork of the open source MySQL database, named "Drizzle", that focuses on what they see as the essential features for an online database.
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