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Ubuntu 9.10 Unleashed, Amid Windows 7 & Snow Leopard

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The latest Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala gets reviewed, along with the GNOME 2.28 desktop environment.

SubConf 2009 – A Report (Day 3)

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The talks in day-3's agenda was mostly concerned on Software Configuration Management and general concepts.

SubConf 2009 — A Report (Day 2)

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Oct 29, '09, marked the Day 2 of SubConf 2009 in which there were plans for many talks by prominent subversion developers and others.
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Learn Image Manipulation & Create a Glassy Wallpaper on GIMP

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Here's a tutorial on how to create glassy effects on images and text, using GIMP.

SubConf 2009 — A Report (Day 1)

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1st day of the Subversion conference, 2009 -- 2 events planned were the "Subversion Hackathon" and "Subversion Developers RoundTable".

Software Freedom Day ’09 Celebrations @ Jaya Engineering College, Chennai

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Software Freedom Day (SFD) is an annual worldwide celebration of free and open source software held during third Saturday of September every year. SFD 2009 was celebrated around the world with great zeal and vigour on the 19th September this year.

Hackfest @ Shaastra ’09, IIT Madras

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I was never into coding/development for FOSS. Though I had decent coding skills in some languages, I had never gotten the opportunity to develop mainstream FOSS. When I was told about HackFest at Shaastra '09, I decided to give the event a try.

WACOM Launches Interactive and Multi-Touch Tablets with Bamboo

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It has been a while that WACOM is noted as a leading tablet manufacturer, among the graphic designers. However, this is the first time they launched a series of products that could not just be used by the designers, but by the "aam junta" as well, with equal ease.

What’s Coming in Karmic Koala?

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Ubuntu 9.10 is scheduled for release on October 29, 2009. Here’s an introduction to the primary features being planned for the release.

Slackware 13: Is it Really Worthy of the 21st Century?

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The latest version of the oldest surviving GNU/Linux distro comes with updates galore, including a KDE4 desktop and ext4 filesystem. It perhaps even has everything for a geek. However, whether it makes the cut for a typical desktop user is the real question.