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I am not a fan of the default font settings of Firefox on Linux. I much prefer the way Firefox on Windows displays web pages. And since I do a lot of work designing blogs and websites, I would much rather have Firefox display web pages the same way, whether I’m using Windows or Linux.
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There has been a lot of talk lately about Google’s Chrome coming to Linux. Chrome on Windows is a light weight and fast browser and having this browser available on Linux is desirable to many people. Me, I don’t care as much because I already use a fast and lean browser. It’s called Epiphany.
Epiphany, according [...]
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Nearly every piece of software written that aids in search engine optimization is written for the Windows platform. Perhaps this is because most of these types of software come with a price tag, and I would venture to say that most Linux users are resistant to paying for any type of software. The Open Source [...]
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I don’t do the most intense web design work, but I do kick out some decent blog themes and websites. That being said, I’ve found that I can accomplish everything I need to do with just three programs: Xampp, Bluefish and GIMP. These programs do for me what Wampserver, Dreamweaver and Photoshop do for me [...]
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I do quite a bit of work designing and customizing blog themes for others (don’t let the design of this site fool you!) and therefore I really need to have a local development server for design and testing purposes. Linux is well known for it’s powerful and secure LAMP server, but there are other choices [...]
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I see a lot of articles, comments and blog posts regarding Linux and how to increase it’s user base. The reasons listed to switch to Linux are invariably the same (free, stable, secure, etc..) and occasionally I’ll see someone mention some “killer apps” for Linux as an incentive to change over.
Well, guess what? There is [...]
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Linux distros come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, but the one thing that is pretty consistent through all of them are the applications you can use. Out of the hundreds and hundreds of available apps in the Linux universe, here are 5 that no self respecting Linux user should ever be caught without.
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