What if you want one user to run a command as an another system user without exchanging passwords. For example, you may want an user john to run a find command or custom bash shell script as an user greg or even as a user root ( superuser ) without password exchange. In this case a sudo utility with its /etc/sudoers configuration file will be your friend.
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How to make a Cosmic Wallpaper in GIMP
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This tutorial will hopefully help inspire you to create your own custom wallpapers and produce a great results in the GIMP.
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How to install the Ubuntu netbook remix launcher in Ubuntu 10.04
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this is a post about installing the netbook launcher software in ubuntu 10.04 and customizing the appearance of ubuntu...
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application launcher for ubuntu
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GNOME Do is a free application launcher for Linux originally created by David Siegel, and currently maintained by Alex Launi. It is better than other application launchers because it not only allows searching for applications and files but it also allows specifying actions to perform on search results by providing instantaneous, action-oriented search results that preferred by the users.
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Some Sanyo Products (Phones) Also Tainted by Microsoft ‘Linux Tax’
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As Kyocera decided to buy Sanyo's mobile phones unit, the Microsoft extortion passes on to yet another brand which makes Android phones
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Windows Partition Still a Danger to GNU/Linux Partition/s
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Bill's partition still refuses to live in peace with existing alternative options such as GNU/Linux
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NVIDIA 256.52 Linux Driver Brings Fixes
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Just shy of a month ago was when NVIDIA last released a proprietary Linux driver, at which point they also released a second driver that was their OpenGL 4.1 preview driver. This Saturday though NVIDIA has provided a new driver release, which is tagged as the 256.52 pre-release.
Read more »Spicebird – An Email Client That Integrates A Calendar, Chat & iGoogle
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We have reviewed a number of free email clients before. You have tasks, calendar, email and social networking (via plugins) all built in into one interface and they all gel together. Evolution does that for Linux, but Thunderbird falls short of the much needed integration. This is where SpiceBird comes in.
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No 64-bit version of Firefox 4.0?
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I got up this morning and saw this, which led me to a pretty serious WTF moment, all before having my morning coffee.
From the article:
"Mozilla’s Director of Firefox, Mike Beltzner confirmed the fact that an x64 flavor of Firefox won’t be added to the existing x86 version, per the 32-bit/64-bit Internet Explorer 8 model.
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Some Windows apps make GRUB 2 unbootable
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If you find that running Windows makes a GRUB 2-based system unbootable (Debian bug, Ubuntu bug), then I'd like to hear from you. This is a bug in which some proprietary Windows-based software overwrites particular sectors in the gap between the master boot record and the first partition.
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Ofris - Deep Freeze Like Application For Linux
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If you ever went to a cyber cafe, you probably noticed that any changes you make to their system: create or delete files, settings and so on, are reseted when you restart the computer. That's what the Deep Freeze program does. Ofris is a Deep Freeze like application for Linux that is very easy to use - once you install it, you can "deep freeze" your Linux computer in a matter of seconds.
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Canonical's X Gesture Extension Being Re-Evaulated
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Earlier this month Canonical introduced its own multi-touch framework for Ubuntu that is set to premiere with Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" and it's called UTouch and is joined by their own gesture/touch language. The X.Org Gesture Extension is already being re-evaluated and may in fact not be needed.
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Mongrel2 ONE POINT OH(web server)
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http://mongrel2.org/home says "Mongrel2 is an application, language, and network architecture agnostic web server that focuses on web applications using modern browser technologies."
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Ubuntu Linux solution stack implementation Demos
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Learn how build Java Object-oriented programs on Ubuntu and IBM Middleware. Link goes to part 1 of this 4 part demo series showing you how to implement a solution stack (Rational Application Developer, WebSphere Application Server, and DB2 Express-C) on Ubuntu Linux, as well as how to integrate them in a Java application.
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Fedora Users gather together in Switzerland
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This years Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon) EMEA will happen from 17th to 19th September 2010 on the premises of the ETH Zurich, Switzerland. It features talks, hacking and barcamp sessions related to anything within the Fedora ecosystem. The event coincides with the FrOSCamp which is an annual, multilingual two-day event.
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