There are a few radical changes to KDE, but these are more under the hood than front and centre, so to the average user, KDE 4.7 may appear a little underwhelming. However, there are some cool new additions, so let’s get on with it.
Read more »KDE 4.7 – A First Look At Beta 1
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Linux Review: SimplyMEPIS 11 - My First Experience with MEPIS, Ever
MEPIS is fast and stable and if you're looking for a blend of Debian with newer and quality tested packages it is a better choice than Kubuntu, which in my experience deteriorates quickly and whose KDE implementation is prone to crashes. MEPIS is also a lot faster than Fedora KDE edition, which has proved solid here but runs like molasses in comparison. Yes, plenty of choices out there.
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Five cool KDE widgets for your desktop!
KDE has many very cool and useful widgets which you can add on your KDE desktop or in your taskbar. Lets have a look at the top 5 widgets.
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The Perfect Server - Fedora 15 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3]
This tutorial shows how to prepare a Fedora 15 server (x86_64) for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.
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Fedora 15 Xfce review
Fedora 15 Xfce is a Fedora 15 Spin. In Fedoraland, a Spin is an alternate edition of Fedora, “tailored for various types of users via hand-picked application sets and other customizations.” Presently, five Spins have been released. These are, in order of popularity, the KDE, Xfce, LXDE, Security and Games Spins.
Read more »How to install and configure Adobe Flash Player 10.3 on Fedora 15
Fedora 15, code-named Lovelock, does not ship with commercial applications. Which means that you are not able to install essential applications like Adobe Flash Player from the graphical package manager. There are a few open source Flash plugins, but they do not render current Flash content very well, if at all.
Read more »MacX HD Video Converter Pro for Windows Serial number
MacX HD Video Converter Pro is really a software which combine HIGH DEFINITION video converter, DVD Burning and Youtube Online video downloader. This software can handle many video formats for instance HD & SD, MKV, M2TS, MTS, AVCHD, AVI, MPEG, MP4, WMV, MOV, FLV, RM, RMVB, WebM, Google TV and more.
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Remove The Fortune Messages In The Linux Mint Terminal
I've always been slightly annoyed by the fortune cookie type message that appears in the Linux Mint terminal by default. I feel like it's in the way when I'm focused on opening the terminal and entering a command. This tutorial shows how to utilize the new Linux Mint 11 feature and remove this, as well as how to do it on Linux Mint 10 without the GUI.
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How to use KDE 4 Desktop Activities
KDE Desktop Activities help to create an incredibly efficient and organized desktop. Jack Wallen introduces this new feature to Linux desktop users longing to take KDE 4 to new heights.
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Guest session and user management on Fedora 15
User management on Fedora 15 is just as easy as on any other distribution or operating system. And the graphical user management tools (there are two) are very intuitive to use. There are two types of user accounts on Fedora 15 – Standard and Administrator. The Administrator has root or super user privileges. During installation, the user created may be added to the Administrators group.
Read more »How to install Fedora 15 on an encrypted btrfs file system
Fedora 15, the latest stable release of the Red Hat-sponsored Linux distribution, is the first Fedora release to have btrfs as a file system option during the installation process. On earlier versions, you would have had to pass the btrfs option to Anaconda at boot time to install Fedora on a btrfs file system.
Read more »SAMBA and Share Configuration Through YaST
This OpenSUSE desktop tutorial explains how to how to setup and configure SAMBA and share configuration using YaST.
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Forcing Scripts to Run as root
At times you will want to have the script stop if it is not being executed as root or as a user who has root privileges for this script. This article will show you how to set up each of those options.
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Zentyal As A Gateway: The Perfect Setup
Zentyal is a Linux Small Business Server, it lets you manage all your network services through one single platform. It's a Network Gateway, as well as an Infrastructure, UTM (Unified Threat Manager), Office and Communications Server. All these features are fully integrated and easy to configure, it truly helps to save system administrators time.
Read more »KDE 4.7 Beta 1 Released
The 4.7 release will bring a number of exciting improvements: KWin, Plasma's window manager now supports OpenGL-ES 2.0, improving performance and deployability on mobile devices. Dolphin, KDE's flexible file manager has seen user interface improvements and now sports a better user experience for searching in files' metadata. KDM, KDE's login manager now interfaces with the Grub2 bootloader.
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