QuiEdit: An Editor for Anyone Who wants a Quiet Life

Source: LXer

Editors, like file managers and browsers, are legion. To carve out a niche for itself an editor needs to have some compelling or unique feature(s). QuiEdit is unique. No, really. It is. If you want to write, unplugged from the distractions of the dig ...
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Mageia 2 and E17 desktop environment

Source: LXer

BackTrack 5 is a Linux distribution designed for penetration testers and other security professionals, or those who want to mess with all the best security and penetration testing applications the free software community has to offer. BackTrack 5 R2 is t ...
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openSUSE Conference 2012 To Be Held in Prague

Source: Softpedia

openSUSE Conference, an event bringing together a wide variety of free and open source contributors to collaborate on one of the major Linux distribution projects, will be held this year in Prague. openSUSE Conferen ...
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How To: Set A Single Or All Windows To Start In Maximized Mode Using CCSM

Source: LXer

Here’s another CCSM [How To]. There are many users prefer to use certain applications always in maximized mode especially if they have a notebook or a small display. I will show you a couple of ways to set all windows or certain applications window’ ...
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PEP 420 is Accepted

Source: Hacker News

Namespace packages are a mechanism for splitting a single Python package across multiple directories on disk. In current Python versions, an algorithm to compute the packages __path__ must be formulated. With the enhancement pr ...
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Linux Mint 13 rallies behind Gnome

Source: ComputerWorld

IDG News Service - With the new version of Linux Mint, released Wednesday, the developers behind the open source Linux distribution have put all energies behind Gnome, offering two versions of the desktop in ...
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How to install Speed Dials in Firefox -- and how to back them up

Source: LXer

When Opera invented "speed dials", they quickly became an important wish list item in all other browsers. Speed dials allow you to visually "see" (via screenshots) a list of most recently visited web sites when you open ...
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How to Use Xmonad, a Tiling Window Manager for Linux

Source: The How-To Geek

Tiling window managers make your life easier by automatically arranging windows on the screen for you. Xmonad is a minimal one that’s easy to get started with — all you have to do is learn a few keyboard shortcuts. Xmonad is also highly con ...
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Snowlinux MATE 2 RC Now Available for Testing

Source: Softpedia

The Release Candidate of Snowlinux MATE 2, a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) and powered by the MATE desktop environment, is now available for download and testing. Snowlinux 2 RC "C ...
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