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Windows has Explorer. Mac OS has Finder. GNOME has Nautilus. And KDE had, up to a number of months ago, Konqueror. Now, together with the up-and-coming KDE 4, a simple file manager named Dolphin takes on file management. So how does Dolphin stack up?

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Curious about how the next generation of KDE looks like? Be curious no more: here’s a bleeding-edge (really, sometimes it bleeds) look at the latest — 3.94 — beta of KDE 4.

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Winds of change are sweeping through the software industry. Today, it’s no longer fashionable to decry free software types as it was just a few years ago — the cool kids are all “leveraging” and reaching out to free software communities. But not everyone’s doing it right, so let’s explore seven principles to start a positive relationship with free software.

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Amarok’s collection is a godsend. The collection scanner isn’t. It kills my carefully primed cache with lots of memory pages full of MP3 data. 20.000 MP3s will do that to you (not my actual song count). Therefore, I propose the following patch:

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…when something like the following is made possible by the synergy in the aforementioned lovables:

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I’m extremely happy with the turnout. I’m more than joyous since my country’s standards organization (INEN) voted no as well. But this battle is just beginning now:

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Rafael Bonifaz me manda el siguiente (y, dicho sea de paso, muy interesante) mensaje de correo sobre la discusión de Office XML:

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Is your Net connection slow? Ever wonder what the hell’s going down the wire? Here are five free and effective tools to diagnose network traffic issues.

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Dos preguntas que todo desarrollador de software libre debería hacerse algún momento en su vida:

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