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

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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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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