Linux Top 5: Heads Up for the Linux Desktop LinuxPlanet: It's beginning to look a whole lot like 2012 will be the year of the Linux Desktop on the Linux Planet. Well, if not the year, then at least this past week, which saw tremendous activity on desktop efforts new and old. (Feb 1, 2012)
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Google is killing Free Software Swfblag: Google is the greatest danger to the Free Software movement at the current time. Feb 2, 2012
GNUnited Nations 0.5 Released (Feb 2, 2012, 18:00 UTC) (1409 reads)
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(feedback) GNU.org: GNUnited Nations (or GNUN for short) is a build system for www.gnu.org
translations, supposed to make translators' lives easier.
Komodo 7.0 IDE Syncs Up Development (Feb 2, 2012, 12:00 UTC) (1998 reads)
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(feedback) Developer.com: Developer tools vendor ActiveState is out with a major new release of their Mozilla-powered Komodo IDE.
Say hello to Bootstrap 2.0 (Feb 1, 2012, 20:00 UTC) (2651 reads)
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(feedback) Dev.Twitter : Six months ago we open-sourced Twitter Bootstrap, an extensive front-end toolkit for developing web sites and applications.
Arch’ed in a day; a noob experience (Feb 1, 2012, 13:00 UTC) (3124 reads)
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(feedback) Justin Stories: Yesterday
morning 9 am -was reading some reviews and suddenly felt the urge to install and try Arch (Oh boy…).
Drush: Managing Drupal from the Command Line (Jan 31, 2012, 15:02 UTC) (1560 reads)
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(feedback) Wazi: "Drush can make it easy for you to perform an internal cleanup, do a fresh Drupal install, install and enable modules, or create users, among other things."
GCC 4.7 Moves Along Into Stage 4 (Jan 30, 2012, 23:00 UTC) (3050 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: GCC 4.7 is still on track with its development plans for an official release in March or April and this popular open-source compiler will deliver on many new features.
The Grand /usr-fication of Linux (Jan 27, 2012, 23:00 UTC) (5753 reads)
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(feedback) ITWorld: The Fedora Project is currently mounting a concerted effort to merge Linux filesystem directories into a more organized structure, an effort known as /usr merge.
Arctext.js – Curving Text with CSS3 and jQuery (Jan 26, 2012, 19:00 UTC) (2623 reads)
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(feedback) codrops : While CSS3 allows us to rotate letters, it is quite complicated to arrange each letter along a curved path. Arctext.js is a jQuery plugin that let's you do exactly that.
Using Plop Boot Manager for USB Boot (Jan 26, 2012, 17:00 UTC) (2781 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxJournal: Portability is a huge advantage that Linux enjoys over most other desktop operating systems as most major distros work very well when installed to a flash drive.
A Broad Look at Hugin (Jan 25, 2012, 10:00 UTC) (1715 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: The release notes for Hugin's latest update begin with the words "Hugin is more than just a panorama stitcher."
Moose (Jan 25, 2012, 08:00 UTC) (2631 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxJournal: Perl has been around for more than 20 years.