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Tomboy, Gnote, and the limits of forks
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| Some people have complained about its faults for a while; Hubert Figuiere,
| instead, chose to do something about it in the form of the Gnote utility.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/331187/
Gnote is entering Fedora and other distributions.
Speed up Common Tasks with Launchy
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| There are quite a few good launcher utilities out there that can make a great
| addition to your productivity arsenal. Gnome Do is probably the most popular
| launcher for Linux, but if you are looking for something less flashy and more
| streamlined, try Launchy. This unobtrusive tool can help you to quickly
| launch applications and open URLs, directories, and documents using keyboard
| shortcuts. In addition to that, Launchy sports a couple of plugins which add
| a few nifty tricks to the launcher.
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http://www.linux-magazine.com/online/blogs/productivity_sauce_dmitri_s_open_source_blend_of_productive_computing/speed_up_common_tasks_with_launchy
Recent:
Gnote vs Tomboy and complete Mono removal
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| Has many of you may know, a new project has gotten a lot of attention lately
| in the Linux world. That project’s name is Gnote. Gnote is an experimental
| port of Tomboy to C++, it’s the same note taking application, minus things
| not done yet, including panel applet, boatload of addins and synchronization,
| but just be patient and you will have a full port of Tomboy soon.
|
| Today I’ve decided to give Gnote a try and install it on my system, I used
| the unofficial Gnote PPA for Ubuntu provided by Vadim Peretokin, at the
| moment it still hasn’t been updated to the latest version of Gnote, but I’m
| sure it will soon. My first impressions were good, it loaded a lot faster
| than Tomboy, 2.324 seconds versus the 0.280 seconds of Gnote and it was also
| three times lighter than Tomboy, maybe because of all of the Mono bloat that
| Tomboy depends on…
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http://trmanco.com/2009/05/01/gnote-vs-tomboy-and-complete-mono-removal.trm
Things to Avoid on Ubuntu
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| Moonlight
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| This is Linux port of Microsoft sliverlight apparently designed to compete
| with adobe flash. Silver light doesn't offer anything new that's not already
| offered by adobe flash.
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| Linux distros previously included some of the technologies that were
| controversial because they were widespread and to make interoperability easy
| for new users. We don't need this turd and it's not widespread.
| Mono
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| Here comes another patent covered piece of junk aggressively pushed by
| Novell.
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http://ubuntu-snippets.blogspot.com/2009/04/things-to-avoid-on-ubuntu.html
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