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Upgrading Ubuntu Linux made easy

There has been a significant amount of media coverage on upgrading to Windows 7. Reports are emerging of upgrades taking a long time, with typical times of 4-5 hours and...

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Is Microsoft pricing itself out of the consumer market?

Late October 2009 is proving to be an interesting time in the world of computer operating systems. Within the space of eight days we have seen Apple dramatically dropping their...

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Linux users: frag your online enemies without installing an application!

This afternoon after I got home from work, I fragged my online enemies! What makes this remarkable is that I use Ubuntu Linux, and as everyone know gaming doesn't work...

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Software Freedom Day 2009 taking shape around the world

Saturday September 19th 2009 is Software Freedom Day, a global day of celebration of Free and Open Source Software. One of the main goals of Software Freedom Day (SFD) is...

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More LUV for Donna Benjamin

At the Linux Users Victoria (LUV) Annual General Meeting, held on Tuesday 1 September 2009 at Trinity College, Melbourne, Donna Benjamin was elected to the position of President for the second year...

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New Skype Beta Client For Linux

The Linux community has been waiting for a long time for an updated Skype client. Recently Skype released a Beta client, version 2.1.0.47, with many new features and bugfixes, bringing...

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Ubuntu 9.04 UNR on Asus Eee PC 901: good and fast

Last night I downloaded the Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix (UNR) and installed it on my Asus Eee PC 901. Here’s how it all went.

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Ubuntu 9.04 Boot Times

Charles Dickens wrote that It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . I have a feeling that he wasn’t referring to computer operating system boot times,...

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Internet Explorer 9 to use Mozilla’s Firefox code base

Microsoft Corporation today quietly announced the end of internal development of Internet Explorer. A spokesman said that one of the senior managers saw a car-bumper sticker which said The...

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Easy image resizing and rotating on Ubuntu

Easy, quick and simple image resizing and rotating is important to many people. When using Windows, you're able to download and install the Image Resizer PowerToy . You can...

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Easy image resizing and rotating in Ubuntu

Easy, quick and simple image resizing and rotating is important to many people. When using Windows, you're able to download and install the Image Resizer PowerToy . You can...

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Clam anti-virus on Ubuntu

There are quite a few anti-virus packages that work with Linux, such as ClamAV, AVG, Avast!, Panda, NOD32, Avira, F-Prot, Kaspersky, eScan and Sophos. I got these names from a...

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Personalising the desktop wallpaper in Ubuntu

In a continuing series of articles highlighting that GNU/Linux is a viable replacement operating system, today we're exploring how to set the desktop background (also known as wallpaper )...

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Dropbox on Ubuntu 8.10

In a continuing series of articles highlighting that GNU/Linux is a viable replacement operating system, today we're exploring how to use Dropbox on the popular Ubuntu distribution.

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Data encryption and Ubuntu, Part III

In a continuing series of articles highlighting that GNU/Linux is a viable replacement operating system, today we're exploring how to encrypt emails using the popular Ubuntu distribution.

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Data encryption and Ubuntu, Part II

In a continuing series of articles highlighting that GNU/Linux is a viable replacement operating system, today we're exploring how to encrypt local files using PGP in the popular Ubuntu distribution.

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Speed up web surfing in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid)

In a continuing series of articles highlighting that GNU/Linux is a viable replacement operating system, today we're exploring one quick way to speed up your web browsing experience in the...

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Opinion: Why GNU/Linux will ultimately succeed

In the last few weeks and months, there have been some very interesting articles and discussions on iTWire about Linux, Windows and Mac OS and their relative merits. Here's my...

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Microsoft Office for *nix

In a continuing series of articles highlighting that GNU/Linux is a viable replacement operating system, today we're exploring CrossoverOffice (or installing Windows applications on Linux systems).

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Installing the Adobe Flash plugin on Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron”

In a continuing series of articles highlighting that GNU/Linux is a viable replacement operating system, today we're exploring how to install the Adobe Flash plugin for the popular Ubuntu distribution.

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