Open Office 3.0 final officially announced; expect a record downloads

As expected, Open Office 3.0 has been officially released today and due to heavy demand for the new release, only a couple of links are available for downloading the packages. The official site is down (literally) and only a plain page appears with a couple of links for downloading the packages.

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Install OpenOffice 3.0 Final in Ubuntu

OpenOffice 3.0 Final is to be officially released on Monday, October 13 it has already been uploaded in many servers. If you can’t wait a couple of more days to get it installed in your Ubuntu box, here is a quick way to install it.

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Tweet your ‘apt-get’! Let Twitter keep track of whatever you install in Ubuntu
If you are like me who often likes to test one of the thousand applications available for Ubuntu and like to keep track of whatever you install or remove, here is a script for you. This script, tapt, tweets whatever you install, remove [...]

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Tweet your ‘apt-get’! Let Twitter keep track of whatever you install in Ubuntu

This script, tapt, tweets whatever you install, remove or perform other operations with ‘apt-get’ in Ubuntu to your Tweeter account.

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Power of Wonderful Linux Terminal - 10 Challenges for Windows Users

10 wonderful and powerful Linux commands and challenges for Windows users. The Windows users to get these things done in Windows in fast and efficient ways; not just command prompt, they can use frontend GUI too. Those people who hate Linux Terminal should also learn a lesson or two from these.

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Install MS Office 2007 in Linux

Though there are many alternatives for MS Office, no doubt MS Office 2007 is a winner. If you want to install MS 2007 in Linux follow these steps:

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Install Bulky Linux Distribution Without Burning a CD

This tutorial is about installing Fedora Linux without burning a CD/DVD.
Scenario/ Assumption:
1) You have Microsoft Windows
2) You have your system drive as C: (No matter whether it is FAT or NTFS)
3) You have Fedora .ISO files in the root directory of some partition (the partition must be FAT!)
4) You need to have a program that [...]

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