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With diff-ext, GNOME users can compare and merge files from within Nautilus. If, instead, you use KDE 3, try out kdiff-ext from the same site, which works with Konqueror. Each utility handles paths to files and directories and invokes an external diff tool to perform the grunt work. With diff-ext you can easily compare two files with different names, from different directories, or whole directory trees.

IT Wire: "Headquarters in Sydney, New South Wales, an Open Source Business Cluster was announced. The aim of the cluster is to more effectively market, deliver and provide support for Open Source technology to business and government agencies."

Netstat -vat: "The open source Zend Framework 1.7 is now available expanding the PHP framework to work better with Adobe Flex and AIR applications."

Linux Dynasty: "Here is a fairly new Linux distribution and like many new ones out there this distribution is based off of Ubuntu Linux. The installation was just an easy 7 steps just as most other Ubuntu based distributions."

LinuxPlanet: "What gives you a firewall, load-balancing, QoS, 3G support, RADIUS, wireless access point, HTTP proxy, VPN, VLAN, PPPoE, captive portal, and a host of other useful security, authentication, and network applications, all in a hundred megabytes? Zeroshell, the built-from-scratch Linux network appliance."

Linux Journal: "Everywhere you turn there are "brain training" games that claim to help you "lower your brain age" or "boost your brain power" and other such marketing hyperbole. Much like saying a certain breakfast cereal is "more satisfying" than other cereals, these claims are basically meaningless."

PinoyTux: "But with CLI, we can do so many things that can be accomplished faster if we know how to utilize the features of a certain command."

Linux Today Blog: "why do print jobs disappear without a trace, then reappear days later? Printing multiple copies, if you had hit the print button in frustration multiple times. Is this printer really online and working? Does it have enough toner and paper? If there is a problem, why won't it tell me in a reasonable way? Why isn't there an obvious, easy button for "cancel the print job plz, kthx"?"

ruminations on the digital realm: "She sees the need for independent testing in order to make sure governments and their citizens don't head into a new vendor-lock, this time as a result of poor implementation of open standards."

CETX_var_log: "I speak of course of Blender. Blender is one of my favourite apps ever. I use it, I love it, I am constantly amazed by it.

But the one thing I'm really looking for in Linux, lately, is a really solid video editor. Yes, Blender can edit video...but..just because it can, doesn't mean it should -- at least in its present state."