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        <title><![CDATA[Ditto on SoftMaker]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-348821-3508524]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[I discovered SoftMaker Office via its Ashampoo version awhile back. Since then SoftMaker Office gets put on any of my Win and Linux machines. Also on flash drive. Even the 2008 version is on my aging Pocket PC. The SoftMaker site has instructions on installing the Linux version to a USB flash drive, too.Given that I don't usually need a lot of what comes in larger office suites SMOffice fits the bill just nicely (my machines are mostly of the legacy variety). Quite fast and handles both OOo and MSOffice file formats. Worth the money IMNSHO.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[marcdw]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 23:59:30 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Using KDE]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-348821-3507034]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Since a large portion of what I do is e-mail, and scheduling a great PIM is critical. I agree KDE got bloated but it still has all the features I want in one integrated package. My solution is to login to my server and run KDE from my server. All the performance I could ask for ... without slowing down my desktop. David SwanVulcan, AB]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[swdswan]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 06:29:59 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Not Banshee alone]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think this is common for all &quot;all-in-one&quot; players: they have too many features which nobody use in whole. Being it Banshee, Amarok, even Exaile or anything like this. The same is valid for non-free tools like iTunes, WMP.That's why I prefer more simple tools like VLC, Audacious &amp;co]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[darkduck]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 01:39:17 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[6 weeks]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[That's the new Firefox release schedule, a major update every 6 weeks. They're not always very major, though.FF7 is a significant upgrade, however;  majorly faster, and uses much less memory.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Greenknight_z]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 01:20:18 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[No problem here...]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-348821-3504949]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[When a 6-core CPU costs slightly over $100, memory is cheap, and FAST video products are cheap, and my WD gigabyte disk with 64MB cache (and a 6GB interface) cost about 90 bucks -- upgrade.Or just turn off Compositing Effects in KDE -- a lot of machines can't do it well.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick S._z]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:40:54 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Common Denominator...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is, in a word...people. First, they DO demand all of the features of the competition, even if those features are never used. Second, developers are under time crunches and are, in a word, lazy. With hardware being faster and cheaper than ever before, why not cut a few corners and let the computer take up the slack? Windows developers went this route YEARS ago... It also accounts for the third step. You mention that FireFox is slow, but stable. Blame that on website developers. If everyone followed standards in design and coding, everything could be nearly as quick as Opera or Chrome. Have a mismash of differing standards and implementations? It'll take the browser a tad longer to figure out what's going on, without errors or omissions...]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[info@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:06:50 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[yep, abandoned it last year]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-348821-3504378]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[I dumped amarok last year for exaile and clementine, the latter based on amarok 1.0. The Mandriva distribution did the same with the 2011 release, even though it's a KDE-centric distro and amarok is the KDE integrated player.Half the time I couldn't get amarok's features to even work, like indexing a samba share. Clementine isn't network aware, but it's worth the compromise, I can actually listen to things with it...]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[pgit]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 06:26:22 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[&amp;quot;linux applications&amp;quot; is misleading.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I notice that of the programs you list, 2 of the biggest ones are not aimed at being *LINUX* applications.Firefox originally did not include Linux support, they started with just windows, but have gone cross-platform. That alone should tell you that they're not as focused about the linux, light-weight, race-car-speed side of things.KDE has recently added support where you can actually install many of its programs in windows.I'm not sure, but I think the &quot;bloat&quot; is largely in the fact that they're not trying to do maximum optimization to the OS, they're looking to compete in multiple OS environments. I know LibreOffice has to include its own libraries to do just about everything it does as a result (after all, windows doesn't offer all the small utilities to do tasks for the program, unlike Linux).]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[shryko]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 06:13:13 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Jack, what version is your FF?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[FF6 was slow and bloaty, but has been quickly replaced with FF7 (FF6 was out for what? Couple of months?).FF7 has been getting pretty good reviews, being almost as fast as Opera in some jobs and faster in others - so please state your version.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[AnsuGisalas]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 04:36:23 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Amarok]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I always feel like it must be mailing my grandfather (who's notoriously slow to write back) to ask permission to start ...]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[daboochmeister]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:04:12 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Speed versus comfort]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You want a sports car, then you will probably get a noisy, bumpy ride with two seats, lousy fuel consumption and no boot space.  But undeniably fast.  You want all those other 'luxuries', you sacrifice speed and handling.  Why should software be any different.  DOS running in a RAM drive is very quick but limited.  Linux cannot stop certain laws of inevitability.  It will not stop me using Linux nor will it stop me using some of the applications mentioned.  I stilluse DOS from time to time.  If you have a job, use the right tool and you will have your expectations met.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[DOSlover]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:01:57 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Instead of LibreOffice]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Have you tried SoftMaker Office ?  It's proprietary for-pay-ware, but it's light weight, fully MS-Office compatible, and legal for business use  The older version (MS-Office 2003 compatible) is free at softmakeroffice.com - bnet.com calls it the Best Free Alternative to MS-Office.  The WIndows version runs &quot;portable&quot;, don't know about the LInux version.  You may find you like it well enough to pony up the $$ for the most recent version.  Not onerous, those $$, as I once got a volume quote from them at under $20 per seat.NOTE - I have no relation to the SoftMaker folks except as a satisfied customer.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jdaughtry@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:31:14 -0700</pubDate>
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