Yesterday I set up a laptop with a Linux distribution, including everything I needed for work. Today, I’m doing it again.
Read more »Installing (and reinstalling) Linux on your desktop
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Python Audio Tools, for the audio perfectionist
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Back in 2003, Minnesota developer Brian Langenberger began creating a set of labor-saving audio tools to convert FLAC files to MP3 files, MP3 files to WAV files, and other simple operations that were tiresome to do by hand. “
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Security expert releases Ubuntu Linux distro for malware analysis
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A security consultant has released a Ubuntu-based Linux distribution specifically designed to help analyze and re-engineer malware. Lenny Zeltser on Thursday released REMnux on Sourceforge and it has already been downloaded nearly 2,000 times.
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How Would OSG Work?
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In my last post, I discussed reasons why an open source government would be a good thing. Now I will tell you my plan for how an OSG would operate (using the USA in model). It is essential to understand that this is not a left vs right issue. The idea here is simply to empower the people of any given country, and allow those people to rule their own lives.
Read more »Red Hat Ignores Desktops - Consumer or Enterprise Whatsoever
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We had been running CentOS 5.2 on dozens of our office-desktops. They were boringly stable though little obsolete. Finally I wanted to upgrade my system to the latest v.5.5 so as to use some of the updated packages including Firefox 3.5 and OpenOffice 3.
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What FOSS communities can look like from the outside
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I found this mailing list conversation snippet to be very insightful, and wanted to share it.
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The Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 11.3 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3]
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This is a detailed description about how to set up an OpenSUSE 11.3 64bit (x86_64) server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable) with PHP, CGI and SSI support, Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH, TLS and virtual mail users, BIND DNS server, Pureftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.
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Helping your latest Linux release work with media
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I thought I’d take a bit of a break from the desktops (we’ll come back to a new alternative desktop soon) and help the users out with getting both Ubuntu 10.04 and Fedora 13 working with some of the popular media types.
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Learn Linux, 101: Create partitions and filesystems
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Learn how to create partitions on a disk drive and how to format them for use on a Linux® system as swap or data space. You can use the material in this article to study for the LPI 101 exam for Linux system administrator certification, or just to learn about partitions and Linux filesystems for your own use.
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Autotrash – Automatically take-out the trash
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Autotrash is a simple Python script which will purge files from your trash based on their age or the amount of free space left on the device. Using autotrash -d 30 will delete files which have been in the trash for more then 30 days. It uses the FreeDesktop.org Trash Info files included in the new GNOME system to find the correct files and the dates they where deleted.
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Why one might not want to renew his annual FSF membership
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For one, as you get deeper into the free software world, you start to see that directed financial support is important. You start to subscribe to free software products, doing automatic monthly payments, you donate, sometimes quite a lot, to developers who make software that matters to you.
Read more »Pinguy OS:A Ubuntu-Fork
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This is a OS I have been working on since Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 2. I thought it's about time I released it and get some criticism on it.
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Virtualization Software for Linux
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Virtualization Software for Linux: In computing, virtualization has been described in a variety of ways. But to simplify its meaning or to make it more casual I should say; virtualization is creating a virtual (not actual) form of a stuff to make it into something that is functional and efficient.
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SMBs fuel Linux adoption in India
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Windows is still the server platform of choice in India but enterprises, especially small and midsize businesses (SMBs), are increasingly favoring the Linux operating system, according to a new report Monday by Springboard Research.
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OSCON: Will Health Care Partners Embrace Open Source?
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The health care sector is set for a technology-driven transformation as the federal government pushes adoption of electronic health records and pursues national health information exchange. Hardly surprising, the Open Source Convention (OSCON) has a health care track. But will health care IT consultants embrace open source? Here's an overview.
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