Last week was another exciting one for the Linux operating system. There were both victories and controversial defeats.
Read more »The Linux Week In Review (May 12 – 19, 2011)
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The Perfect Desktop - Kubuntu 11.04
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This tutorial shows how you can set up a Kubuntu 11.04 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.
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Perl 5.14.0 Released
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Improvements in Perl 5.14 include full Unicode support, improved IPv6 support, easier CPAN client configuration, a new non-destructive substitution option, flags to switch regular expressions between ASCII and Unicode, a new package declaration syntax and optimisations to use less memory and CPU than previous releases.
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Tell Reggie Fils-Aime that the Nintendo 3DS is dubious, devious, and defective
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The Nintendo 3DS comes with Terms of Service (TOS) that should not be accepted. In fact, the TOS are so unbelievable that we have included a more detailed summary of them on a separate page. To enforce these TOS, Nintendo uses Digital Restrictions Management. This combination of legal and technological restrictions make the Nintendo 3DS dubious, devious, and defective
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70 bricks ordered for Nintendo, help us reach our goal of 200
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So far, Defective by Design supporters have ordered 70 bricks to send to Nintendo's President and COO, Reggie Fils-Aime. This is great progress, but we think with a little more help from you all, we can get to our goal of 200 by Monday
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Interview with Arnaud Laprévote, President of Management Board of Mandriva
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Raphael Jadot writes: As I promised to some people, during the month of April I went to the new Mandriva office in Paris, rue de la Michodière, for an interview with Arnaud Laprévote, CEO then President of Management Board, in order to have more informations on Mandriva and its future.
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Login as root on the Ubuntu System
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The Ubuntu system requires you to login as an administrative user to be able to execute commands that only root can execute. However, you can alter the system to allow root to login to perform hours of administration as root. This eliminates the requirement of typing the full path for commands.
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10 reasons why is Microsoft buying Skype!
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This is a biased post. Biased towards FREE people using the FREE internet! And certainly against the blogging policies of being neutral, but no harms! Everyone is changing the policies; Microsoft is being altruistic supporting its ultimate rivals – the open source community; and hence changing its policies. If the IT tycoons are changing their policies then why not tiny bloggers!
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Astaro has been acquired by Sophos
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Astaro, the German company behind the suite of Linux-based network and host-based security applications and devices, has been acquired by Sophos, a UK-based provider of enterprise network and endpoint security solutions. An email to that effect was sent to Astaro’s users and partners today. Excerpts from the email reads:
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How to Install KDE In Ubuntu Natty [Quick Tips]
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Ubuntu Natty has been out for almost two weeks. If you do not like the Unity interface, nor the classic Gnome, you could install KDE and give it a spin. Here’s how you can install KDE in Ubuntu Natty.
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Calligra is the Future of Free Software Office Suites
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In the long run, and already now on non-desktop environments, Calligra is the future of free and opensource software office suites
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The Perfect Server - Ubuntu Natty Narwhal (Ubuntu 11.04) [ISPConfig 2]
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This tutorial shows how to set up an Ubuntu Natty Narwhal (Ubuntu 11.04) server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Courier POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.
Read more »How to install Ubuntu 11.04 on an encrypted LVM file system
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Ubuntu is one of many Linux distributions with support for LVM, the Linux Logical Volume Manager. LVM is a disk partitioning scheme that brings a level of flexibility to disk management that is not possible with the traditional method. With LVM, you can, if necessary, increase the size of a partition online, that is, while the system is running, without unmounting the partition.
Read more »Leading Analyst Firm Expects Growing Importance of Monitoring Privileged IT Users
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According to IDC, compliance drives investment priorities in 2011 while financial companies will grow their compliance investments up to 15-20% of their IT budgets.
BalaBit IT Security - “the syslog company” - is aiming this promising market with Shell Control Box, a Linux based activity monitoring appliance for privileged access.
For more information visit:www.balabit.com/idc_wp
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Hands on persistent pendrive linux installation and it's advantages
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What about the idea of carrying your operating system whereever you go? I am not talking about bringing your laptop everywhere you go, instead use your pendrive to carry your linux distro. Not simply the live distro, you can carry your operating system with all your configurations, favorite desktop background and personal files.
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