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My Favorite Linux Podcasts

In the recent years, podcasting has been gaining momentum and today we have a multitude of podcasts for almost every topic, including my favorite (and yours, I hope), GNU/Linux. Instead of listening to the same song over and over, why not educate yourself about the latest in open source technology? If you like what you’re [...]

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Am I the Only One Who Thinks Xandros Buying Linspire was a Good Move?

  Disclaimer: I never met anyone from either company, so here are only my views on the matter. I hear the former CEO of Linspire said it’s going to ruin the company, because the shares will become worthless. While I’m no expert on shares etc. and since I’ve never been a CEO, the guy’s probably [...]

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My Experiences with Firefox 3.0 on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X

Well I guess I should join the Firefox 3 review bandwagon. I’ve been using Firefox 3 since beta 5, which came bundled with the new version of Ubuntu. I also upgraded my browsers on both my PC and MacBook, so I got an impression of the browser’s functions, bugs and most importantly speed on all [...]

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The Search for the Perfect Linux Kiosk Distribution

I am the maintainer of a few public computers in a school library. I didn’t really check, but if I remember correctly, the computers are pretty old 900 MHz Pentiums with 90-128 mb RAM. Now these computers had XP on them before, but I removed this horrible operating system in order to install Linux. Of [...]

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Firefox 3 and Opera 9.50b support animated PNGs!

If you view this image by Dave Boyle with FireFox 3, Internet Explorer or Opera 9.26, you will se a static PNG file. But if you use the Opera beta, or a beta of the new FireFox 3, you will be able to see an actual PNG animation. The animated APNG format is supported in [...]

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