SAM, an acronym that stands for Surface to Air missile. SAM, Linux. SAM Linux is a distribution based on PCLinuxOS, a small if rather popular distribution that caters to new users by offering a rich, exciting desktop, with everything working out of the box. That is PCLinuxOS. So what can SAM Linux do?
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PHPers prefer Windows desktop to Linux
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PHP might have put the "P" in LAMP - the all open-source server stack - but on the desktop, it seems that those using PHP generally prefer the "W" to the "L." In a recent study from Zend Technologies, forty two per cent of PHP programmers named Windows as their primary development operating system. Linux came second, with 38.5 per cent, while Mac's OS X was third on 19.1 per cent.
Read more »Listen Now: Luc's Heated Talk From X@FOSDEM
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The most heated talk this year during FOSDEM in the X.Org development room was certainly the talk by Luc Verhaegen with his ambitions to clean up the Linux graphics driver stack. Building the entire X.Org stack can be a mess and there is certainly areas to improve upon in the development process and making it easier for end-users and others to test out this latest code.
Read more »How To Switch Permalink Structure In WordPress Under Ubuntu
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There are certain things you need to tweak in Apache running under any Debian platform (including Ubuntu) in order to have it properly redirect webpages (301) after you change your permalink structure in WordPress.
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Is Novell working on a KVM hypervisor?
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In spite of currently having a very small user base, Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is getting quite a bit of attention lately from the press and the virtualization market.
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Open source: dangerous to computing education?
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At a time when we are trying to broaden participation in computing, open source development is even more closed and less diverse than commercial software development.
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Where has my network gone?
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Yes, things do go wrong with Linux, as they do with all other operating systems. Fortunately most of the things which go wrong with Linux are configuration related and on average can be fixed quicker than can be done with other operating systems.
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Security Expert Releases Linux Distribution for Ethical Hacking, Penetration Testing
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Dr. Ali Jahangiri, the well known security expert and author of Live Hacking: The Ultimate Guide to Hacking Techniques & Countermeasures for Ethical Hackers & IT Security Experts, is pleased to announce the launch of the Live Hacking CD, a new Linux distribution designed for ethical hacking.
Read more »Demo of Dual-head Dual-game GNU/Linux Machine
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Two modern computer games (WoW and CS) running under GNU/Linux even at the same time on multiple screens
Read more »multicd.sh - Combine several CDs into one
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multicd.sh is a shell script designed to build a multiboot CD image containing many different Linux distributions and/or utilities.
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The Year of the Tablet Computer
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There is no denying the fact that we have become a touch-centric society in regards to our technology. Where is our technology headed though? With the idea of "bigger is better" in mind: if a 3.5~ inch touch screen is good a larger screen must better right? Enter Tablet PCs and the year 2010
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Warmth - New proposed theme for Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid)
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Ubuntu's goal to to present the user with a welcoming desktop environment. Although the current theme is a step in that direction, the bright colors and overly bright theme. Warmth aims to be a softer, more blended theme, while still remaining within the ubuntu color scheme.
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BuddyPress 1.2 Brings Social Features to WordPress Sites
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WordPress users rejoice! The latest release of BuddyPress finally brings all that social media goodness to standard WordPress installs. With BuddyPress 1.2, it should only take three steps to get BuddyPress working with a standard WordPress install.
Read more »Bordeaux 2.0.0 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD Released
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The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.0 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD today. Bordeaux 2.0.0 marks major progress over older releases. With version 2.0.0 and onward we bundle our own Wine build and many tools and libraries that Wine depends upon. With this release we bundle Wine 1.1.36, Cabextract, Mozilla Gecko, Unzip, Wget and other support libraries and tools.
Read more »How to install Edubuntu Menu Editor in Ubuntu lucid/Karmic
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The Edubuntu team has been discussing the need of a tool to filter the list of applications displayed to a user depending on various criterias. We first implemented it as a set of meta-packages called application bundles and prefixed ubuntu-edu-* though we then noticed that it doesn't always apply to all countries.
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