Update KDE to 4.5 and experience true improvement
For the longest time I have shrugged off KDE 4 because of poor performance.
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Backup your Linux desktop with Simple Backup
There are tons of possible backup solutions for the Linux desktop (and/or server).
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Sync your Evolution contacts with UbuntuOne
How many machines do you have? How many contacts do you have? How many machines do you try to keep your contacts in sync on? There are a lot of ways to [&hellip
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Two cool KDE Plasmoids
It's time to head off to that wonderful land of KDE where the desktop only gets better and better with each release.
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Convert ext2/3 to ext4
Let's say you're a little bit behind the times.
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Even more GNOME keyboard shortcuts
Well all strive to make our desktop as efficient as possible.
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Uberstudent: The students' Linux
There are so many Linux distributions out there it's dizzying.
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Use Top Shelf to keep track of what you are working on
As a writer one of the most important things for me is to keep organized.
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Let Cairo-Dock be your Linux desktop dock
I've covered a number of desktop enhancements here on Ghacks.
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Keeping track of your PCs temperature in Linux
I have had a few PCs in my time where keeping track of the temperature was critical to knowing the health of my system.
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Easily browse your activity with GNOME Activity Journal
There are a lot of ways to keep track of your files on your Linux machine.
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Remember those birthdays with GBirthday
Since today is the birthday of both myself and the US President I thought it apropos to cover a birthday reminder tool for the Linux operating system.
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User switching in the Linux desktop
Linux is a true multi-user system.
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Get to know Linux: Grub2
Most PC users have no idea what a boot loader is.
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Clone your Linux disk with ddrescue
What do you do when you KNOW your hard disk is failing but you're not ready to do a re-install or lose any of that precious data? Obviously the first solution i
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Install KDE on Fedora 13
If you downloaded and installed Fedora 13, Â most likely you are using the GNOME desktop.
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Creating self-signed certificates with gnoMINT
I do a lot of work with Linux servers.
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A requested Linux theming tutorial
Recently I had a request to illustrate how I managed to get a particular theme working in GNOME.
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Dock any application in the notification area with AllTray
There's a line between closing an application and leaving it open.
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Add SASL to your Postfix server
Some time ago I did a series on the Postfix email server here on Ghacks (see the Postfix content on Ghacks for more information).
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A few Ubuntu 10.04 fixes
Ubuntu 10.
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Collaborate with Abiword
Collaboration is a key component to working in a business or on a team.
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Peppermint Linux: An interesting approach
There are so many Linux distributions out there.
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Merge directories with unison-gtk
Yesterday, at the office, we had a client come to use needing to merge two 20 Gig directories of data together.
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Tweak Nautilus to better suit your needs
If there's one thing that Linux has it's flexibility.
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A lesson in Linux: Eating one's own dog food
There is an old saying in the Linux community (actually in just about every community - but I heard it from a Linux developer first) "eating your own dog food"
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Track your sports training with pyTrainer
My wife and I are avid cyclists and hikers.
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Make gnome-terminal profiles work for you
The gnome-terminal is one of the finest terminals available for the Linux operating system.
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Lesser known Evolution features
I have covered the Evolution groupware client on Ghacks before (check out all content containing Evolution here).
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Configuring Fvwm's Wharf
In this series we are discussing the Fvwm window manager for the Linux operating system.
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Alternative desktops: Fvwm
This time around, in our Alternative desktops series, we're going seriously old-school Linux with Fvwm.
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Installing applications in Linux with a double click
For many, the biggest barrier to adopting Linux is the challenge of having to use the command line for too many tasks.
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Helping your latest Linux release work with media
I thought I'd take a bit of a break from the desktops (we'll come back to a new alternative desktop soon) and help the users out with getting both Ubuntu 10.
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Speed up your Ubuntu machine boot time
Are you desperately searching for ways to finally reach that elusive 10 second boot time? You certainly heard that Ubuntu 10.
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Run Compiz with Xfce4
So you're enjoy the series on Xfce4.
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Xfce Window Manager Tweaks
Lately I have been focusing on the desktop environment Xfce.
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Orage: Xfce calendar application
As we continue on with our travels down the Xfce path, I thought it would be smart to highlight the Xfce calendaring application Orage.
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The Xfce "control panel"
Today we take another look at the Xfce desktop environment.
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Installing and using Xfce 4
I don't spend much time, or give much love to the other Linux desktops here on Ghacks.
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Re-conquer Konqueror with Rekonq
How many browsers does an operating system really need? If you are looking from the outside in at the Linux operating system you would think it needed plenty of
