I love the site DistroWatch! They post all the major Linux distributions and keep track of the current versions. They also keep a daily count of the 10 most popular distributions. I used their data to compile this list. Linux newbies and Linux experts alike will find this list useful. These are 10 solid Linux distributions…
Read more »The Greatest KDE Distro Ever: An Early Look at openSUSE 11.3
This week the first milestone release of openSUSE was made available. Together with the KDE 4.4 release candidate and excellent integration of GTK applications such as Firefox, openSUSE simply provides the greatest KDE experience available to date. Here’s why.
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Linux upgrades the easy way
I've been re-assembling my office-all 28 computers of it. I decided to update an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop to Ubuntu 9.10 and an openSUSE server from openSUSE 11.1 to openSUSE 11.2. No, I'm not crazy.
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n900, thoughts
I received an N900 a couple days ago and was quite excite to unpack it. It came with the usual dizzying array of wires for power, audio, etc. The instruction manual was short but useful. The box was a nice charcoal gray. Yadda yadda yadda. I wanted to see the thing in action!
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Berkus's Ten Ways to Destroy Community and Bacon's Art of Community
This was a great week for reviewing "community building" resources in my world. I discovered Josh Berkus's recent Java One presentation, "Ten Ways to Destroy Your Community", and I received my reviewer's copy of Jono Bacon's "The Art of Community".
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iScanner : Detect and remove malicious code from your webpages
Isecur1ty team have announced the first version of iScanner 0.1. iScanner is a free, open source, tool that lets you detect and remove malicious codes and web pages viruses from your Linux/Unix server easily and automatically.
Read more »How to install docky from ubuntu ppa
Docky is a full fledged dock application that makes opening common applications and managing windows easier and quicker. Docky is fully integrated into the GNOME Desktop and features a no non-sense approach to configuration and usage. It just works.
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Setting Up A PXE Install Server On Ubuntu 9.10
This tutorial shows how to set up a PXE (short for preboot execution environment) install server with Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala). A PXE install server allows your client computers to boot and install a Linux distribution over the network, without the need of burning Linux iso images onto a CD/DVD, boot floppy images, etc.
Read more »Finally, Arabic Support to Android Arrived
The Arabic support to Android arrived unofficially thanks to Ayman Al-Sanad who added the support to the OS. I tried to add the Arabic support to my HTC myTouch 3G (Magic 32B) and now I have my mobile read Arabic in most of the applications.
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Configure or Remove ETags in Apache/HTTP
ETag is a validator which can be used instead of, or in addition to, the Last-Modified header. By sending a ETag, the server promises that the content is not changed until the ETag changes for a specific resource.
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Google Chrome OS Tablet Demo Video Like a Bolt From The Blue
With the Apple iPad buzz going around, there can't be a better time to demonstrate the 'tablet' implications of Google Chrome OS. With the market leader, Microsoft, not having even one credible OS in the netbook or tablet range, one should be literally sleeping not to see the tremendous opportunity.
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Google Issues Nexus One Software Update
Over-the-air update adds new features to Google's first branded mobile phone and addresses some of its problems.
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Codesion Emerges from CVS
There was a time when CVS (Concurrent Versioning System) dominated the open source, software-version-control landscape, but no more.
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What's Java's Future?
With all of the screaming about the fate of MySQL under Oracle's thumb, there's been far less discussion about a much more important software project now under their control: Java.
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Django 1.2 beta 1 released
"As part of the Django 1.2 release process, tonight we've released Django 1.2 beta 1, a preview/testing package that gives a little taste of some of the new features coming in Django 1.2.
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