Category Archives: Linux

Put Linux on your laptop

Posted on November 12, 2006 by computerpioneer

Put Linux on your laptop Anyone who’s ever had the notion to put Linux on their laptop would do well to check out the aptly titled site Linux on Laptops, a good resource for (you guessed it) laptops and Linux. … Continue reading →

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First Impressions of Fedora Core 6

Posted on October 27, 2006 by computerpioneer

FC6 is here, at last, and we’ve been busy putting it through its paces to let you see what’s new. There’s lots of information below, along with some freshly taken screenshottery, but you’re probably most interested in the following questions: … Continue reading →

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Fedora Core 6 is Out, Really

Posted on October 24, 2006 by computerpioneer

Fedora Core 6 is Out, Really “Fedora Core 6 (FC 6) is now available, offering Red Hat users a view of the latest and greatest in open source technologies…” Official announcement, reviews within.

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Adobe Flash 9 Beta Debuts on Linux OS

Posted on October 21, 2006 by computerpioneer

Adobe Flash 9 Beta Debuts on Linux OS Adobe expects to have the official Flash 9 release for Linux sometime in 2007…

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How to install Photoshop on Ubuntu

Posted on October 12, 2006 by computerpioneer

How to install Photoshop on Ubuntu The PublicidadPixelada weblog has a 7-step tutorial for installing industry-standard graphics editor Adobe Photoshop CS2 on Ubuntu using Wine (a project that lets Linux users run apps designed for Windows). If there’s one thing … Continue reading →

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Download: Pychess 0.2

Posted on September 13, 2006 by computerpioneer

Pychess 0.2 Pychess is a chess application which aims to be both fast, beautiful and simple, but at the same time have features for both networkplay and adwanced chessanalyzis. You can grab the fairly stable 0.2 release at Homepage: http://pychess.googlepages.com/home … Continue reading →

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Glom Database Graphical FE

Posted on September 12, 2006 by computerpioneer

A review of the Glom graphical database front-end Glom is an interesting graphical database front-end I’ve been meaning to try out for some time. Someone asked about graphical database front-ends on the #mysql IRC channel recently, and that prompted me … Continue reading →

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HOWTO: Normalize the Gain of your MP3s

Posted on September 12, 2006 by computerpioneer

Normalize the Gain (Playback Volume) of your MP3s via [Ubuntu Blog] I confess to the grave sin of storing part of my music collection in the mp3 format – mostly music I have had around for ages. There, now that … Continue reading →

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Top 10 Apps for Ubuntu

Posted on August 25, 2006 by computerpioneer

Hack Attack: Top 10 Ubuntu apps and tweaks by Adam Pash When I made the switch to Ubuntu Linux on my desktop computer (that is, if you can call triple-booting Windows XP, Vista, and Ubuntu a “switch”), I was a … Continue reading →

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GNOME and Google reach out to women

Posted on August 22, 2006 by computerpioneer

Newsforge: GNOME and Google reach out to women GNOME’s Women’s Summer Outreach Program (WSOP) is underway, with twice the number of projects originally scheduled, thanks to Google’s generosity. The program has not only brought a few more women into the … Continue reading →

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