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Beesoft Commander: An old school file manager on the modern desktop
06/09/2008 
Although the last release of Norton Commander, the famous file manager for DOS, was a decade ago, its legacy lives on in dozens of clones on every ope ... 
Hiper Type-M 780W
06/09/2008
Back in 2005 we had looked at the Hiper Type-R Modular 580W power supply. This was a unique power supply that had a modular cable design and had perfo ...
Trying Out Ubuntu's Netbook Remix
06/09/2008
Canonical's Netbook Remix won't be appearing on mobile devices until later this year -- and these software changes are still very much under developme ...
What Makes Amarok the Most Popular Audio Player on Linux?
06/09/2008
I used this player for about three years and I love it more and more, with each new release. Statistics show around 60% of the Linux users prefer Amar ...
Translate words with EuroOffice Dictionary extension
06/09/2008
Need a multilingual dictionary tool that allows you to quickly translate words and expressions without leaving the convenience of OpenOffice.org? Drop ...
Small, awkward and looking for love: Delphi for PHP 2.0
06/09/2008
The intent behind Delphi for PHP from CodeGear, last month acquired by Embarcadero Technologies, is clear: to provide an integrated development enviro ...
Standing One The Edge
06/09/2008
I know the frustration... Being so, so close to success...only the smallest of obstacles in front of you. It would seem just a simple maneuver would c ...
Sapphire ATi Radeon HD3870 Ultimate
06/09/2008
The Radeon HD3870 Ultimate edition features a passively-cooled heatsink, making for an excellent video card in silent environments such as home theate ...
Linux captures the 'green' flag, beats Windows 2008 power-saving measures
06/09/2008
Our tests point to Linux as the winner of the green flag by margins that topped out at 12%. But we must note that our results are full of stipulations ...
Finding The Number Of Open File Descriptors Per Process On Linux And Unix
06/09/2008
How to make the distinction between open file descriptors and open files, and report on them, using the proc filesystem on Linux or Unix. ...
Banshee 1.0 Released! Here's the Review
06/09/2008
Banshee 1.0 was released a couple of days ago. Here's an article reviewing the most notable features of Banshee together with upsides and downsides of ...
Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva Performance Compared
06/09/2008
Last week we released Phoronix Test Suite 1.0 and one of the article requests we received as a result was to do a side-by-side comparison between the ...
Bulgaria: 'Government's increasing use of Open Source inevitable'
06/09/2008
The Bulgarian government will turn more and more to Open Source software, predicts Krasimir Panayotov, coordinator of the GNU/Linux User Group in the ...
Chinese SoCs run Linux
06/09/2008
Beijing-based Ingenic Seminconductor is shipping three MIPS-based SoCs (system on chips) that support Linux. The Jz4720, Jz4730, and Jz4740 target dev ...
Firebird Developers Day and special FB Master Classes
06/09/2008
This is a remind to let you know that the 5th edition of the Firebird Developers Day's Brazilian conference will take place in Piracicaba-SP, in 19/Ju ...
France: Education Ministry encourages Open Source use
06/09/2008
The department at the French Ministry of Education that is handling purchasing of software and software licenses is increasing its Open Source offerin ...
IBM takes on Microsoft with ODF-based Symphony
06/09/2008
IBM has launched a commercially supported version of its Lotus Symphony productivity suite, ready to take on Microsoft Office. The software is free, w ...
DistroWatch Weekly: Computex 2008, Debian"Lenny" freeze, ten years of Mandriva
06/09/2008
Welcome to this year's 23rd issue of DistroWatch Weekly! Ever since the launch of ASUS Linux Eee PC late last year, the ultra-portable computer m ...
Sapping VistA's Soul
06/09/2008
In the past I've spoken highly of VistA, the Veteran's Administration computerized health records system and with good reason. VistA has a lot going f ...
Pidgin the Ultimate Instant Messenger application.
06/09/2008
Pidgin is a multi-protocol instant messaging application allows the use of AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Nove ...
Desktop Environments: The Past and The Future
06/09/2008
Even the biggest fanatics of the black console box won't hold it against me if I say that in the respect of interacting with the computer, the future ...
Mandriva 2008.1 Spring Edition Review
06/09/2008
Mandriva is the leading European Linux distributor. It was founded in 1998 under the name Mandrake, producing the Linux Mandrake distribution. The nam ...
The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu Studio 8.04
06/09/2008
This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu Studio 8.04 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the s ...
Slackware 12.1 - The Newest Release of the Oldest Surviving Linux Distribution
06/09/2008
Slackware has a well earned reputation for reliability, stability, and performance. It may also be the least user friendly major Linux distribution on ...
Tale of a codec optimisation: doing things the GNU/Linux way
06/09/2008
Encoding is a CPU-intensive operation. Whilst encoding, using optimised code is crucial. In this short article I will explain how I gained a 300% spee ...
Distributing New SSH Keys Using Rsh On Linux And Unix
06/09/2008
Quick and easy shell script to help setup openssl, openssh and zlib, while creating new ssh host keys, network-wide using rsh. ...
Phoronix IRC Channel
06/09/2008
Due to the request of users on the Phoronix Forums, we now have a Phoronix IRC channel. On #phoronix at FreeNode.net you can discuss the latest Linux ...
GeForce 9 Mobile GPUs On Linux
06/09/2008
This past week NVIDIA had unveiled the GeForce 9 Mobile GPUs at the Computex Taipei trade-show. The GeForce 9M GPUs were announced just before AMD had ...
Linux macro benchmark tool stabilizes
06/09/2008
A software tool aimed at helping users administer macro benchmarks like kernel compile time tests has achieved its first stable release. Version 1.0 o ...
Mr. Matusow, South Africa and the Microsoft brainwasher
06/09/2008
Before to comment in details the latest production of Mr. Matusow, I'd like the reader to pay attention to the following: in his post, Mr. Matusow's m ...
Version labeling is out of control
06/09/2008
Anybody who spends time trying new free software applications and distributions will soon notice that version numbering and labeling is next to meanin ...
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