Chakra is a Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. It evolved from a hobby project to what is now, from my initial assessment, a very solid desktop distribution with features not yet available on established Linux distributions.
Read more »Chakra GNU Linux review
http://www.linuxbsdos.com –
Mageia 1.0 review
http://www.linuxbsdos.com –
Mageia is a Linux distribution forked from Mandriva Linux by former contributors and members of Mandriva. The official announcement of the project was on September 18, 2010, and the first stable release June 1, 2011. The article is a combination review of the GNOME and KDE desktop editions.
Read more »How to customize Chakra 2011.11
http://www.linuxbsdos.com –
Chakra 2011.11 is the second maintenance release of Chakra Linux, a KDE (desktop) distribution originally derived from Arch Linux. A detailed review of it will be published later tonight. While we await that publication, this article gives some customization tips. And there is much to customize because a new installation of Chakra 2011.11 is like bringing something home from IKEA.
Read more »How to delete DigiNotar CA certificate from Firefox
http://www.linuxbsdos.com –
DigiNotar B.V., a unit of VASCO Data Security International, Inc., is an Internet Trust Service Provider based in the Netherlands. Part of their business involves issuing digital certificates.
Read more »Alter Your Environment with Functions
http://bashshell.net –
The user can alter the Bash shell environment by adding functions to their .bash_profile or by editing the global /etc/profile script for all users. This feature provides a great deal of flexibility for the administrator and user.
Read more »
Looping Through a List
http://bashshell.net –
This is an example of a Bash shell script used to loop through a list to compare to text strings found in logs. The script is used to detect and block attacks on a web site.
Read more »Enabling Compiz On Xubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)
http://www.howtoforge.com –
This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz on a Xubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8200 here). Xubuntu uses the Xfce desktop environment which is a fast and stable alternative for those that are not happy with Unity or Gnome 3.
Read more »Introduction To The Enlightenment 17 Window Manager For X (Ubuntu 11.10)
http://www.howtoforge.com –
This tutorial is supposed to show some features of the Enlightenment window manager as an alternative to the often used Gnome and KDE managers. I will install Enlightenment on a desktop computer with Ubuntu 11.10 installed.
Read more »Guide to disks and disk partitions in Linux
http://www.linuxbsdos.com –
This article is an attempt to provide basic information about disk naming and partition numbering conventions, in non-technical terms, to those new to Linux. I believe a basic understanding of all the aspects concerning how a disk is referenced and partitioned will put you in a better position to troubleshoot installation and disk-related problems.
Read more »The Coming HTML 5 Revolution in GNU/Linux
http://beginlinux.com –
I have spent the last couple of weeks working on a very ambitious C++ program. The program is a software model of a mechanical engineering system. I have never undertaken a more challenging or more rewarding computer programming project. As I spent hour after hour poring over the code, I began to realize why everyone is making such a fuss about HTML 5.
Read more »Sabayon 6 KDE review
http://www.linuxbsdos.com –
Sabayon is a Gentoo-based, Linux distribution with support for binary package installation. Installation images for the major desktop environments are regularly published and updated. The KDE and GNOME 2 editions of the latest, Sabayon 6, were released just last week. June 23, 2011, to be precise. This article presents a comprehensive review of the KDE edition.
Read more »Mandriva Desktop 2011 teaser
http://linuxbsdos.com –
Getting closer to the release of Mandriva Desktop 2011. The first release candidate was made available June 30, 2011. I do not like to review pre-stable releases, so this is not going to be a review, but a teaser, a taste of what is to come.
Read more »GNOME 3: From an end user’s perspective
http://www.linuxbsdos.com –
Released just a few days ago, GNOME 3 is the latest major version of the GNOME desktop environment. If you are currently running a GNOME-based Linux or BSD distribution, you are probably using version 2.30 or 2.32, but that should change in the upcoming release cycle when many of the distributions will be shipping with GNOME 3 as the default.
Read more »TLWIR 11: Old PCs, Patent Wars and The Humble Bundle
http://beginlinux.com –
Free software evangelists take pride in spreading the news about freedom and open source. They inform those that still feel locked into the old software distribution systems. The days of computer users being bogged down with virus-infested, bloated, and locked down systems are quickly coming to an end.
Read more »Exercise #8: Counting and Sums with awk
http://bashshell.net –
awk may be used to count instances and also sum columns for reports. Often it is useful to use awk scripts for the output so that it can be formatted to your needs.
Read more »
-->
Categories
From the staff of FSDaily: Comedians in Perth, Magicians in Perth, Bands in Perth
