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Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix

Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix Gets an Update to 12.04

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Canonical, the commercial company backing the Ubuntu project, had launched the Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix in February this year, based on Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric...
Super+W to spread all windows in the current workspace

Ubuntu 12.04 Review: An LTS Done More or Less Precisely

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Ubuntu 12.04 is the fourth LTS release from Canonical that came out about a month back, and the first LTS with the revamped user...
Have you checked out the new Nmap yet?

What’s New in Nmap 6

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Nmap is Hollywood's most famous "hacking" tool that has featured on numerous blockbusters. It was originally written to find hosts in a network thus...
The elegant and usable Mint Menu

Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon Edition: Makes the Old-timers Feel Right At Home

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No Unity. No GNOME Shell. But a GNOME 2*ish-looking GNOME 3 + Compiz Muffin window manager, dubbed Cinnamon. It comes with a certain amount...
Linux virtualization solutions

Virtualisation Face-off: Qemu, VirtualBox, VMware Player and Parallels Workstation

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In this article, we take a look at four of the most well known and commonly used virtualisation software for Linux. When it comes to...
Getting ready for Mageia 2

Awaiting Mageia 2: Five Things You Can Look Forward To

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The final release of Mageia 2.0 is about to embark sometime today (see release schedule). Based on the RC releases currently available for download,...
The many FOSS tools for our daily use...

Best Open Source Apps for Daily Use

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What the proprietary world can do, FOSS can do better! That's what this article hints at, as it takes you through the 11 most...
The TutorVista team

TutorVista: Using Open Source in Digital Education

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TutorVista, a digital tutoring website, uses open source software to mimic a classroom experience and maintain its database. TutorVista is an online tutoring service that...
Bruno Georges, Red Hat's Enterprise Application Platforms Engineering group

About JBoss Application Server 7 and Goals for 2012: An Interview

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The JBoss' Users and Developers Conference (JUDCon) was held in January at Bangalore, and featured discussions by top open source developers from around the...
Internationalisation and localisation

Localisation: An Introduction

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This article is aimed at language computing enthusiasts interested in using computing devices in their native language, developers interested in supporting localisation, linguists interested...