A USB boot disk is a cool idea. It allows you to carry your favorite operating system in your pocket. Since all modern PC provide USB boot from BIOS , you can use any computer and work on your on desktop. It is also possible to make data persistent. With ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jaqckalope it is very easy to make an install disk. Here is how you can do it
Read more »Firefox hits 270 million users, without Linux
The open source Firefox web browser from Mozilla now has some 270 million users. That's the figure that Mozilla staffer Aza Dotzler is now claiming, and it's not an easy number to calculate.
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Memory usage - 2009.1 with KDE4
Running Mandriva 2009.1 on my EEE pc, I am sensitive to performance, as it’s a fairly low end system. I could not understand why plasma was using 47 MB of ram and some other processes where also really hogging a lot of ram considering what they do.
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The Best Linux Distribution Will Be Invisible
No, I'm not talking about the fact that Linux is effectively invisible on the desktop right now. Rather, this is about how the best Linux on the desktop won't need to even call itself that.
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The Open-Source Market - Limitless and Forever expanding?
In this post, I have decided to go a bit back into basics, take a broader look at things, and actually consider the nature of open-source compared to other models.
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ImageMagick and Ubuntu 9.04
Using a command line tool like ImageMagick for image processing may sound a really counter-intuitive thing to do but there’s no need to do everything on a case by case interactive basis. Image resizing and format conversion come to mind here.
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openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 70
Issue #70 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out. In this week’s issue: KDE4 Reloaded, Google Summer of Code Introduction, and OpenOffice.org 3.1beta6
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A Peek at DeviceKit in Fedora 11 and Beyond
In my travels, I discovered David Zeuthen's informative peek at DeviceKit (and its use with and in lieu of HAL) in the upcoming release of Fedora 11.
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Learn how to customize Alfresco with actions, web scripts, web forms, workflows, and more
Alfresco Developer Guide helps customize Alfresco with actions, web scripts, web forms, workflows, and more. Alfresco is an open source platform for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions. ECM includes things like Document Management, Web Content Management, Collaboration/Enterprise 2.0, Digital Asset Management, Records Management, and Imaging.
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Read more »UNIX network analysis
In this tutorial learn about a number of different UNIX tools and techniques to diagnose Network problems
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The Holy Grail of Linux Is Shattered
Linux is one giant hobby. The day it is owned and controlled, even if only in fiction, in the eyes of the consuming public, is the day it ceases to be Linux.
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XBMC (Open-Source Media Center) Has Been Updated to Version 9.04, Codename Babylon
XBMC (“XBMC Media Center“) has been updated to version 9.04, codename Babylon, available now for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Apple TV, the classic Xbox, and bootable CDs or USB drives.
Read more »The 1% Solution: Cocaine, Statistics and the Linux Desktop
Linux cracks 1% of the OS client market. But does this represent the path forward, or the beginning of the end?
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The RGB/Green.org Sustainability Challenge
Strengthen your local community with an organically grown Drupal site
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