If you log into the command line of both an Ubuntu system and a Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora system, very little will look different. There are common directories and utilities between the two, and functionality is fundamentally the same. So what makes Ubuntu different from other Linux distributions? One difference is the installer.
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KGet - KDE’s Download Manager
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Download managers, although frowned upon by some, are often useful applications for those of us who download a lot of files, or are on slower connections and want to use a dedicated application (perhaps with some tricks up its sleeve) for the downloading of files.
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5 Easy Backup Solutions for Linux
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Be it noobs or a geeks - computers are indispensable for either of the clans. With the trend of increasingly high storage devices - both USB and otherwise, the amount of data which resides in the form of nibbles and bits is enormous. Backing up your data is of prime importance from work/business point of view.
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LSD Man Page. More Linux/Unix Humor
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As I pull these articles out of the vaults, I'm surprised at how many of them are still floating around on the web. I actually found this man page for LSD
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Brilliant Brainstorms (#19)
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Brilliant Brainstorms is a weekly summary of some of the best/most interesting brainstorms from the Ubuntu Brainstorm site.
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Rinetd - redirects TCP connections from one IP address and port to another
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rinetd redirects TCP connections from one IP address and port to another, with basic IP-based access control.rinetd is a single-process server which handles any number of connections to the address/port pairs specified in the file /etc/rinetd.conf.
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FUSE is a project that makes it easy for developers to build filesystems and virtual filesystems, by allowing their code to run in userspace, rather than at the kernel level...In this post, I’m going to round up four useful implementations of FUSE and briefly explain what each one does and how it could be useful to you.
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Make Your Bash Prompt Look like Dos Prompt
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Here is a cool trick to make your bash prompt look like a dos prompt. Why would you do it? You shouldn’t; unless you have something for dos prompts. But you could always do this to fool your coworkers or friends and give them a moment of, “WTF”? (I know I will)
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VMware exec says Windows days are numbered
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In an ITWire tale, Paul Harapin, VMware's managing director for Australia and New Zealand said Windows is already being replaced by virtual appliances running on Linux. In ten-years, there will be no more Windows.
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This is not a GTK+ 3.0 blog post
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I have been trying to follow the intense debate tagged GTK+ 3.0 and actually covering a lot more, from the longest post to the shortest. If I was into film criticism I would say that the story is evolving from decadentism to apocalypticism, with elements of final time, esoterism, conspiracy, dualism and reincarnation. It’s confusing… but solvable, since confusion is just a mental state.
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Richard Stallman at BoS
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# "I saw on the front page that Richard Stallman is going to be speaking at the business of software conference. I guess my question is why? ..."
## Yet, it is easy to understand:
* Software and Community in the Early 21st Century (Eben Moglen):
Is open source software bad for business?
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One security outfit which conducted a study into the use of open source software in the enterprise, the results of which are published today, seems to think so. It states that "Open Source Software (OSS) development communities have yet to adopt a secure development process and often leave dangerous vulnerabilities unaddressed."
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The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives
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Abstract: Open source software has changed the rules of the game, impacting significantly the economic behavior of stakeholders in the software ecosystem. In this new environment, developers strive to be committers, vendors feel pressure to produce open source products, and system integrators anticipate boosting profits.
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Authoriterrorism and surveillance, the Brazilian way
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The Sarkozy Regime is pursuing the same strategy in Europe... To me, this is a great example of the the globalization of business power. And the World Trade Organization seems the perfect tool for our governments to impose their old culture...
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8th Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre
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"...During the event programmers, developers, strategists, technology experts and entrepeneurs involved with Free software will meet to exchange ideas, share techniques, discuss and explore free technologies...
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