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Inside Google Desktop: Desktop for Linux
For most Linux users, looking for files, documents, or emails usually involves some combination of find and locate, but sometimes these tools dont quite do what youre looking for, like finding that single PDF containing the specific topic youre looking for. Or you just wish there was a much easier way to find something than find /home/username -name .pdf and pdftotext pdf_file_name.pdf output.txt…

Set-up a Ubuntu webcam security system « InfectedProject
Have you ever wanted to spy see on what is going on in your home while you are away? Motion is a piece of open source software that acts as a motion detector. It enables you to set-up a webcam server that you can have all your cameras connected too, so you can view them remotely and also upload them to a remote server. Motion should run on most linux distributions but for this exercise I’m using the desktop version of Ubuntu linux.

Tectonic: FNB switches 12 000 desktops to Linux
Following recent reports of a South African bank eyeing out Linux, Novell South Africa today issued a statement in which it said it had reached an agreement with First National Bank of South Africa to standardise the bank’s 12 000 desktops in its 680 retail branches on Novell’s Linux product.

Pimp Your Linux » More useful commands for the Linux Newbie
f you are starting Linux for the first time, you’ll notice that most of the programs that you download from the internet come in a gzip or tar format. I will explain here how to uncompress these files:

Some VMware images

Still unsure about which linux to use. Use Vmware Player and try them all. Here is a list of virtual machines that you can down load and try.

Windows Marketplace: Product details for Ubuntu Desktop

This is interesting. You can purchase Ubuntu Desktop from Windows Marketplace. Is this a prank ?

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A complete Linux manual online. This should be a daily stop for new Linux users

Featured Linux Download: Run Internet Explorer with IEs 4 Linux - Lifehacker
Run Internet Explorer with IEs 4 Linux

Not Exactly sure why you would want to but here is the tip non the less

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Canonical head Mark Shuttleworth discusses his position on the whole Microsoft “intellectual property” claim regarding Linux and open-source software and what, as the man behind Ubuntu, he’s comfortable and not comfortable doing with Microsoft. Here is his comment in its entirety:

VentureCake » Blog Archive » 10 Linux Shell Tricks You Dont Already Know. Really, we swear.

Download Skype for Linux

Finally a version for Linux

Skype is a little piece of software that lets you make free calls to anyone else on Skype, anywhere in the world. And even though the calls are free, they are really excellent quality. If you and your friends, family or business contacts are using webcams, you can also make free video calls. You can even call landlines and mobile phones at really cheap rates.

InternetBoot - VamosProject
With http based filesystem and virtualization, you can boot any livecd image you want strait from the mirror. You don’t have to wait for those 700MB (or more in case of a LiveDVD), and you don’t have to burn the anything. Simply mount the mirror and launch your favourite vitualization engine!

[Phoronix] Fedora v. Ubuntu: A Performance Look
We have compared the 32-bit and 64-bit performance of Ubuntu and started a performance comparison of Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu, but how does the performance of the upcoming Feisty Fawn release compare to that of Fedora 7? In this article we have enclosed benchmarks from Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft, Fedora 7 Test 2, and Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Herd 5. In gaming and desktop benchmarks, which of these Linux distributions is faster? We hope to answer that question today.

» Blog Archive » Feisty Performance - “Fly Like A Butterfly�?

This is a great guide to tweak the performance of your Ubuntu box. Not that it runs fine without tweaking.

course:start [LBo]
This course is free as in free beer. However, a goodwill contribution in the form of active participation, revisions, suggestions or ideas would be appreciated.

Basic requirements are a desire to learn, to do reasonable footwork reading the material, googling the topics at times, gathering information on your own system, to respect fellow learners, and to follow netetiquette. This course being more specifically targeted to beginners, there aren’t really that many requirements. However, keep in mind that questions will range from very basic to more advanced. Beginners will have to be bold and ask the questions they have at their level there are no stupid questions and not be intimidated by more advanced questions from more advanced users who are learning too. More advanced users will have to “remember when�?, as they once were introduced themselves to Linux, and hopefully contribute answers to basic questions as well as more advanced ones.