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Oct

Explanation of Linux for beginners

Posted by Christian  Published in Linux for Beginners

Here are three very easy to read, very easy to understand, non-technical articles about Linux, about the Linux Desktop and Linux distributions.
All you as a beginner want to know about Linux, in two pages each. Enjoy!
I. What Is Linux?
II. What Is a Linux Desktop?
III. What Is a Linux Distribution?

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28

Oct

Speeding up OpenOffice start up

Posted by Christian  Published in Linux and Free Software, Linux for Beginners

How to speed up the start of OpenOffice, the free office suite for Linux and Windows, from 20 seconds down to 2 seconds:
Disable Java in the Options menu and OpenOffice will start in about 2 seconds or roughly ten times faster.
OpenOffice 2.0 already supports the next generation standard format for text, presentation, calculation and database [...]

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18

Oct

How to change the screen refresh rate in Ubuntu Linux ?!?

Posted by Christian  Published in Linux for Beginners

UPDATE2:
In Ubuntu 8.04 / Hardy Heron, there is a new display config tool that works well with screens that have autodection. It sucks however with older screens such as mine Iiyama Vision Master Pro 400 as it can not select refresh rates higher than 65 Hz. Same with the Nvidia tool that comes with [...]

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17

Oct

Microsoft: “We were railroaded”

Posted by Christian  Published in Linux and Free Software

In one of the best articles available on the net about the steam behind the silent revolution of Free Open source Software, David Berlind of ZDNet writes about the changing landscape in the software industrie. Reading like a polit thriller (which it acutally is), he is drawing the big picture of a war that [...]

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