When you dual boot, you intend to install a boot choice when the PC starts. This is what you intend but a slip of reasoning or of the finger could cause Linux to hijack your Windows PC. Here are some alternative options to test driving Linux.
Read more »Giving Ubuntu a spin (with less risk)
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Sharpen your Linux Vocabulary
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We have seen a large number of mundane, how-to articles on Linux in the past few days on this website.
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Linux Distributions explained for Windows Users
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For those of you who have done a legitimate Windows install, from scratch, from a Windows install disk and on a clean HDD, yet have never installed a Linux distribution before, this article is for you.
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Firefox 3 - triumph or disaster?
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Not everything went to plan during the Firefox 3 launch - first the servers just could not cope with the traffic, leaving potential downloaders fuming, and then a security firm announced that it had discovered a flaw that left the browser open to attack.
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Pinging And Checking Port Status With Perl CGI On Linux And Unix
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Perl script to ping, check ports and create a CGI page report. This time written a bit more complicated than necessary to highlight some uses of Perl.
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How-To: Easily Add Web Shortcuts to Firefox
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A tutorial showing how to add web shortcuts to Firefox in order to search with any search engine faster. Exmaple: type 'gg download ubuntu' to automatically search for 'download ubuntu' on Google.
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Software installation woes on Linux
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While we gracefully installed our favorite Linux distro, one of the mundane problems which most users face is - installing a new software. In the beginning, software installation on a Linux distro can seem extremely intimidating while using a terminal but more often than not we can install things graphically.
Read more »3 Ways to Try Out Linux, For a Windows User
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One of the arguments I often hear from people who are trying to use linux for the first time is that they are not sure if they can switch back to their original choice of OS (usually windows), if they are not satisfied with their experience with linux.
Read more »LVM Quick Command Reference For Linux And Unix
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Quick reference guide for the most commonly used LVM commands.
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Create Professional WordPress Themes with New Book
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Packt is pleased to announce the release of WordPress Themes Design, which is a complete guide to creating professional WordPress themes. Written by Tessa Blakeley Silver, this book will be invaluable to WordPress users or visual designers who want to develop a WordPress theme.
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Removing Logical Devices Using LVM On Linux And Unix
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How to use the basic LVM commands to disable and remove your LVM logical devices.
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The Linux Terminal For Beginners
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A very long time ago, computers didn’t have mice, icons or fancy graphics. Instead of an Operating System with a Graphical User Interface, there was the Command Line Interface. With it, you would issue commands to your computer in a text only environment that is not seen so often these days.
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"Here's a short tutorial i wrote up today that is a basic collection of Emacs Lisp Idioms..." -- via http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emacs/browse_thread/thread/08f20f99f...
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Banshee 1.0 was released - read how to install it in Ubuntu Gutsy and Hardy
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If you don’t want to wait until Banshee 1.0 is added to Gutsy/Hardy repositories, just add this to your software sources (System > Administration > Software Sources -> Third-Party Software and click Add), for Hardy:
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They Say a Picture's Worth a Thousand Words...
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Iconic logos from the GNU/Linux world (GNU, Debian, Tux, Ubuntu, Fedora, Slackware, OpenSuSE etc)
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