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The Rise of LibreOffice

Posted on March 15, 2011 by daleV

The most widely used, open source, free, office suite application was, and I guess for the moment, still is, OpenOffice.org with over 100 Million users.  LibreOffice is a relatively new kid on the block, and for a reason, which we’ll … Continue reading →

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Keyboard shortcut to File Manager in Ubuntu (Windows + E for Nautilus)

Posted on October 14, 2010 by imperialWicket

First, the standard GNU/Linux caveat: this is not a distro or application-specific technique. Metacity ships with Ubuntu as part of Gnome, any distro with Gnome can use this technique to launch any application you want (I’m not even certain that … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 10.10 Release, Maverick Meerkat

Posted on October 9, 2010 by daleV

Well it’s here.  It’s hard to believe that six months has gone by since the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Long Term Support, release in April. The next release of Ubuntu, Maverick Meerkat, was released today.   It is version 10.10. Long … Continue reading →

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Using Ubuntu for my work laptop – applications and configurations

Posted on October 1, 2010 by imperialWicket

I recently fubar’d my work laptop, and had the delightful benefit of choosing my operating system for the Dell Latitude E6500 Laptop. Needless to say, I have switched from Windows XP to a Linux distro. We use CentOS on our … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 10.04 has Arrived

Posted on April 29, 2010 by daleV

I looked on the Ubuntu site this morning around 10 am, and saw version 9.10 was still the version du jour.  I knew that Lucid Lynx was due out today, and was wondering if somehow the date had been moved, … Continue reading →

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