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Gnome 2.20 Desktop has been released. The popular multi-platform desktop environment was released today, with a baggage full of new and useful features. Some of the major improvements include;
Improved support for right-to-left languages like Arabic; Evolution now shows an icon in your panel’s notification area when you have a new email. Interactive PDF forms are now supported by Evince viewer, so you less need Adobe Reader. More»
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Whilst searching the web I still find a lot of Linux Debian based Ubuntu users asking how to get through with the famous w32codecs and libdvdcss2. These codecs permit us to have a better multimedia Linux platform. It’s much easier to list-out what we can’t do without them than what we can do with them. More»
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Google ones more gets closer to the Linux world. After collaborating in the Wine project, they recently created their own Linux software repositories to streamline the use of Google software in Linux. Google’s repos make it very easy to download and stay up to date with current releases of Google software.
Now you can install Google/Linux applications with a simple command like; aptitude install picasa
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One of the most challenging aspects of dealing with Linux is that there are hundreds of different Linux distributions whilst this is overwhelming to some, its confusing to others, especially for those trying to learn about Linux. Some years back it was normal to say, its easier to install and get started with Windows than a Linux Desktop. Nowadays that is no longer true. Declassifying on what Linux Desktop to use is neither a problem, most use the LiveCD and are hardware compatible. It is generally very easy to install Linux Desktops nowadays with the advent of the LiveCd. More»
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Proxy’s are software that are found between a client, for example a browser or FTP applications. and a server, typically an Internet site. Their principal function is caching. Practically the proxy memorizes the client’s most frequent requests(in the cache) and renders it available to each time the same request is made. By so doing, each time a client asks for a file already downloaded, it is no longer necessary to connect to the server, but to the proxy, that has the file in its cache. This method obviously improves the download of files of any dimension.
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