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Packt: "MySQL Query Browser, one of the open source MySQL GUI tools from MySQL AB, is used for building MySQL database queries visually. In MySQL Query Browser, you build database queries using just your mouse—click, drag and drop!" (original story)
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Ubuntu Geek: "Maximum Transmission Unit(MTU), the largest physical packet size, measured in bytes, that a network can transmit. Any messages larger than the MTU are divided into smaller packets before being sent.By optimizing the MTU setting you can gain substantial network performance increases, es... (original story)
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Microsoft Excel: "I used to work for a derivatives trading desk, writing spreadsheets. As anyone in investment banking knows, Excel is like the Outlook of the trading floor - traders use it to price absolutely everything; keep the departmental vacation calendar; plan their weddings and name their ba... (original story)
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Geek.com: "This article demonstrates how easy it is to roll your own PBX in about an hour or two. Provided that the instructions herein are followed carefully, you too should be able to set up your very own switchboard/PBX system and all for the cost of the target hardware of your choice." (original story)
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KDE Dot News: "It's been a couple of days since Akademy 2008 started, and a steady stream of news is coming through the KDE.news site...The second keynote was about Nokia, who discussed their long-term commitment to Qt and KDE. Tuesday, Nokia gave away 100 N810 internet devices to KDE developers to ... (original story)
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Computerworld: "I see my buddy in technology writing, Preston Gralla, is having trouble getting his new Wubi-based Ubuntu 8.04 system to work with his Windows file systems and vice-versa." (original story)
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It Wire: "In my last article I looked at gaming on Ubuntu Linux and concluded that it is alive and well! Now we head back into the "useful" side of Linux. Linux has a bad reputation of having to use the Command Line Interface (CLI) to do anything really useful. In this article I will talk about some... (original story)
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Echoes: "The new Banshee 1.2 includes several new features over the last stable release, like the equaliser or the music recommendations panel. The full list of new or improved features is here. For those who didn't hear about Banshee yet, it's a pretty powerful audio player for GNOME which received... (original story)
Posted from DistroWatch.com: News 4 days ago
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Jürg Billeter has announced the release of paldo GNU/Linux, a hybrid (source and binary) distribution for the desktop with a custom package management system: "We are pleased to announce the release of paldo 1.15 with many bug fixes and updates. It features the latest stable GNOME 2.22.3 desktop,..... (original story)
Posted from DistroWatch.com: News 4 days ago
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Urs Beyerle has announced the release of the Live CD/DVD edition of Scientific Linux 5.2, a Red Hat-based distribution enhanced with scientific and educational software: "Scientific Linux Live CD/DVD 5.2 has been released for i386 and x86_64 architectures. New feature: changes can be stored persiste... (original story)
Posted from DistroWatch.com: News 4 days ago
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With the 2008 Olympic Games now in full swing in Beijing, China's most prominent Linux vendor, Red Flag, has announced the availability of a special "Olympic" edition of Red Flag Linux. This is a preview of the upcoming stable release 7.0. The product is an installable live CD.... (original story)
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"It is about time to take a step back and describe what I have been implementing," began Daniel Phillips, referring to his new Tux3 filesystem. He provided a simple ASCII diagram that detailed the filesystem's hierarchical structure, describing each of the elements. About one he noted, "the volume... (original story)
Posted from DesktopLinux.com 5 days ago
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The new "Lenny" release of Debian expected in September includes a pre-configured KDE environment. In this hands-on review, DesktopLinux Founder Rick Lehrbaum sets up the "beta 2" preview release of "Lenny KDE," and explains in detail how to configure it for use as an Internet workstation. (original story)
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KDE Dot News: "One of the talks on Saturday morning was about integration. As it was given by Inge Wallin it quickly started to resemble a Marble talk - fans of that application must be having a blast, as there's also a 'real' talk about Marble by Patrick Spendrin. Marble was used by Inge to show on... (original story)
Posted from DistroWatch.com: News 5 days ago
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The fourth alpha release of Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" is ready for testing: "New features: X.Org server 1.5 brings much better support for hot-pluggable input devices such as tablets, keyboards, or mice; Linux kernel 2.6.26; encrypted private directory; guest session - the GNOME user switching app... (original story)