Time for the second article of highly useful, cool and fun utilities, commands, and tricks that should help you gain better productivity and understand your system better.
Read more »Linux cool hacks - Part II
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Elive 2.0 - Distro Review
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Elive: Where Debian mights Enlightenment. This is Elive's slogan. As I am sure you can guess, it is a Debian based distribution that uses the Enlightenment window manager.
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The Linux of stock markets
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Today's news that TSE (Tokyo Stock Exchange) has moved to Red Hat's RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) as the operating platform for its next-generation "Arrowhead" trading system shouldn't come as a surprise. Linux has become the smart stock market's operating system of choice.
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Should Ubuntu Have Been Created
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While the Linux community has benefited greatly from Ubuntu’s investments and focus on the deficiencies of Debian, it is not clear why Shuttleworth needed to fork Debian to improve Debian in the first place. Hiring volunteers to work full-time is a good way to speed up progress, but they could have done their work inside of Debian if Mark had told them to.
Read more »Firefox mobile still lagging
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Firefox mobile is heading to Android, slowly. The mobile version of Firefox's browser, called Fennec, is still only available for the Windows Mobile and Maemo platform, a soon-to-be redundant operating system only used on a couple of Nokia devices.
Read more »Compiz cube and your icons
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I have had a lot of fun playing with compiz fusion in Linux. I really like the desktop cube feature especially with the transparency settings in place to where you can see all sides of your desktop cube. Unfortunately there is a problem and that is with the desktop icons.
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Focus on the Inefficiency of Ubuntu
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When I write about Debian and Ubuntu, I have focused mostly on the inefficiency of the separate teams.
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Five Best IRC Clients for Linux
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IRC is a vital part of participating in the Linux community, but choosing an IRC client can be a daunting task for new Linux users. If you're ready to start jumping into IRC, but not sure which client to start with, we've got five great clients to choose from.
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Red Hat, Novell: Reading the Stock Market Tea Leaves
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Spring has sprung, at least here in the Northern Hemisphere, and with it comes the blooming of flowers, the chirps of baby birds, and "Novell's Board of Directors reject[ing] Elliott Associates' unsolicited, conditional proposal as inadequate."
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Nexuiz Gets Forked, Turned Into Xonotic
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Nexuiz, an open-source first person shooter that we have been covering since its first release in 2005 and has turned into a game that offers impressive graphics and raises the bar for open-source gaming, has been forked by many of its core community developers.
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Former MySQL CEO to become Eucalyptus Systems CEO
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Marten Mickos, former MySQL AB CEO and Senior Vice President of the database group at Sun Microsystems, has been named as the chief executive officer for Eucalyptus Systems, replacing Woody Rollins. Rollins moves to the company's CFO position
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How to install Skype on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx
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Well almost everyone knows what skype does. Let's see how we can easily install skype on ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx
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XtreemOS 2.1: Linux for the Grid
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The XtreemOS consortium developers have released version 2.1 of their Linux-based Grid operating system. In addition to the usual bug fixes and stability improvements, the latest release features a new version of the XtreemFS replicated and distributed object-based file system
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EasyConverter v0.3a
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So I bought my dad a new MP3 player. His iPod was from 2005 so it was time for a new one. Almost all of Dad's music files are .flac or .wav. The iPod played them thanks to rockbox. This one does not. And my dad is more like the average user, so I wrote a little program to help him. Well, program, more like a ffmpeg wrapper with Zenity.
Read more »How To Set Up WebDAV With Apache2 On OpenSUSE 11.2
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This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with Apache2 on an OpenSUSE 11.2 server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to directly edit files on the Apache server so that they do not need to be downloaded/uploaded via FTP. Of course, WebDAV can also be used to upload and download files.
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