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If you’re in the market for a wifi card (be it desktop or notebook) and you’re an avid Linux user, you may be interested in knowing if a card will work with linux before you commit to the buy. The authors of passys.nl have set up a user-contributed list of wireless cards and their [...]

I ran aptitude dist-upgrade last night, and shortly after the update I received this surprising notification:

I did notice that a kernel update was in the mix, so maybe installation reboots are exclusive to kernel updates, but it was a surprising notification nonetheless.

KDE4 is great. I’ve always enjoyed the idea of widgets, ever since I discovered Konfabulator back on Windows. However, in the journey from KDE3.x (with panels) to KDE4 (with optional panels and plasmoids), one key component was lost: the quicklaunch menu.
For most plasmoids, you either get it with the default plasma [...]

This article assumes, for the most part, a reasonable familiarity with sudo, cp, mv, and other simple command line commands. It also assumes that you backup your important data, as any experienced computer user will tell you to. In addition to your important data, you should backup the new versions of the discussed [...]

That’s right, it’s time for a technologically controversial post.
Compiz is the ultimate in eyecandy. Seriously. With wobbly windows; various window-switching mechanisms such as shift-switcher, ring-swither, and regular tab-switcher; a multi-desktop cube; Mac Expose-style effects; some wicked screensavers; and a whole array of window opening, closing, minimizing, focus/unfocus, etc animations, it [...]