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I needed to fit Ubuntu on something smaller than a 700Mb CD, so I decided to make my own

The Rosegarden team are delighted to announce the release of version 1.2.4 of Rosegarden, an audio and MIDI sequencer and musical notation editor for Linux. This is a pure bug-fix release, fixing several outstanding issues with the prior version 1.2.3. You can download this latest release from this page: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4932

SourceForge.net: Rosegarden 1.2.4 now available!

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Techtree.com India > News > Internet > Mozilla Announces Firefox 2.0 Beta

New version of Firefox

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Welcome to the free-penguin project page. This project provides ‘executables’ that enable you to make your own soft-toy Linux® penguin. To put it straight: You can find sewing patterns and a community to sew your own soft toy or stuffed Linux® Tux penguin here. To help Google finding this, once again: You can find sewing patterns and community to sew your own soft toy or stuffed Linux® Tux penguin here. All downloads come under GPL (GNU General Public License).

Free Penguin Project – download free penguin sewing patterns, stuffed penguin and Tux patterns open source

Then again, as my daughter gets closer to one year old, might have more relevance than I thought!

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According to Distrowatch.com, Damn Small Linux is the most popular microLinux distribution. What began as a toy project to stuff the maximum software inside a 50MB ISO file has matured into a refined community project known for its speed and versatility. DSL includes the ultra-lightweight FluxBox window manager, two Web browsers, Slypheed email client and news reader, xpdf PDF viewer, XMMS with MPEG media file support for playing audio and video, BashBurn CD burner, XPaint image editing, VNCViewer and rdesktop to control Windows and Linux desktops remotely, and more. If they could do all this in 50 megs, imagine what they could do in more space. Last month the DSL developers released DSL-Not, a.k.a. DSL-N 0.1 RC1. It’s 83.5MB of DSL coated with GTK sugar. Yummy!

NewsForge | DSL-N: Damn Small Linux gets bigger

I’ve really enjoyed using this Distro, especially as it has brought new life to an old notebook I had lying around. This larger version should help save the time I spent adding some of the larger apps to it.

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Setting up your system network can be hard enough. You organise your router, firewall, connection to the internet and the workstations you need to connect to your router.You then sort out the required Ethernet cables, hiding them within your walls, so that your network is self-contained.Over time you’ll probably add more workstations to your network, and multiple network engineers will make other amendments.In the future you might find that you need to make major structural changes to your existing network. Can you remember what is connected to which router and how your workstations are all networked?The Dude is a network monitor that will enable you to scan all the devices within a network subnet and then draw a map of the network devices and tell you where your workstations are connected and warn you of service problems.Better still, your network doesn’t need to be internal. If your company has a network between offices, The Dude will enable you to map the entire network.Note this is an advanced tool for network engineers.

The Dude 2.0 beta 3 – Computeract!ve

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The Order of the Stick

This is my favourite web comic strip at the moment and well worth a look by anyone who has ever come across Advanced Dungeons and Dragons or computer Role Playing Games

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There’s been a lot of buzz lately around Scalix, the Linux-based open source email and collaboration software that offers third-party MS Outlook integration.Its “transparent” support for Outlook, as well as its equally buzz-worthy AJAX-based webmail feature, has raised hopes that the open source solution can oust the Outlook/MS Exchange hegemony in the corporate market — one of the last remaining barriers for open source in the business world.

TECTONIC: Scalix slashes wholesaler’s collaboration costs

Having listened to what Microsoft have to say about Office, the collaboration tools have always seemed unbeatable. Maybe this will change things

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However, I discovered another truly invaluable use for Live Linux CDs when my friend Mitch asked me to come over and help him with a very urgent need. His business report was due the next morning, but at the last moment his Microsoft Windows laptop failed to boot and he lost his report.

Emergency Boot of Windows PCs: Another Use for Linux – www.reallylinux.com      

So this is a post created with Flock. I’m review this for Personal Computer World .

The editor is pretty good as there is a source edit feature as well and I can add tool tips to links such as this one to my favourite news story about OpenOffice and Excel . The only problem so far is that you need to insert some spaces after a link to make sure that the link doesn’t extend to cover the following text.