I thought of trying out Kubuntu (KDE based) this time as I had heard that its doing a lot of interesting things (Akonadi/Nepomuk etc) and that with 4.3.1 it is stable as well. The installation went fine, all over within less than half an hour and then the problems started.
Read more »Booting and networking problems in Kubuntu Karmic 9.10
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Sugar on a Stick v2 - a.k.a. Blueberry - released
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Sugar Labs, the organisation behind the One Laptop Per Child's XO laptop software, has released Sugar on a Stick version 2.0 - a.k.a. Blueberry.
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DIY pfSense firewall system beats others for features, reliability, and security
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With the prevalence of "black box" appliance firewalls available for $50 or less, one might wonder why you would look for a do-it-yourself solution. Linksys and D-Link, among other vendors, create simple and easy to configure firewall solutions for cheap.
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Source Games and Wine
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Many a day on the Ubuntu Forums I stumble upon posts like Program X doesnt work under ubuntu Im leaving. As it turns out some of these posts are for the Source games mainly the multiplayer ones Counter Strike Source Day of Defeat Source Half Life 2 Deathmatch Team Fortress 2. For that purpose Im gonna make a short guide just to show how I had luck getting the Source games to work.
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Pentoo Linux for Penetration Testing
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Pentoo linux is a Gentoo-based live CD with a selection of apps and tools designed to perform penetration testing. They recently released their 2009.0 version and we thought we'd take it for a spin and share our findings.
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My life with Linux: Day 7 and Final Verdict
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Stuart Turton spends the final day of his one week odyssey with Linux, gets drunk on the gaming possibilities of Wine and gives his final verdict on whether Linux is worth the trouble or not.
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Google DNS Benchmarked
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Today Google announced a public DNS service they are hosting. They claim that their DNS infrastructure is faster and more secure, because their servers do some clever things. I wanted to test their performance claims, so I wrote a little script to measure a lookup times for different domains across a number of DNS servers.
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How to install and Configure compiz Fusion in Ubuntu 9.10(Karmic)
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Compiz is a compositing window manager that uses 3D graphics acceleration via OpenGL. It provides various new graphical effects and features on any desktop environment, including Gnome and KDE. Compiz Fusion is a collection of plugins and a configuration system for the Compiz compositing window manager. It was created from the remerging of Beryl into Compiz.
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Fedora 12 LXDE Spin Screenshots
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Fedora 12 LXDE spin available for download. LXDE, the 'Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment', is an extremely fast and energy-saving desktop environment. It is maintained by an international community of developers and comes with a beautiful interface, multi-language support, standard keyboard shortcuts and additional features like tabbed file browsing.
Read more »CrunchPad partner plans media event
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The man whom TechCrunch blog network founder and editor Michael Arrington blamed for killing his CrunchPad hardware project has scheduled a video call with reporters and industry analysts for Monday, according to a Silicon Valley public relations firm.
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Rawhide users: fasten your seat belts
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For the daring folks who follow Rawhide: life is about to get interesting for a while.
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Enable mod_rewrite in a Ubuntu server
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If you have done much work with Apache then most likely you have experienced a need for enabling the rewrite engine. If you are unfamiliar with the rewrite engine, you can think of it as a means for your web server to literally rewrite urls so they are easier for users to remember.
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Newsflash for GE, you're already using 'risky' open source
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For 99.999 percent of the people reading that statement, it's so obvious as to induce global yawning. But for Peter Gyorgy, chief information officer of GE's Consumer and Industrial division in Europe, it's apparently heresy.
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KDE Plasma Netbook Preview
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With the growing popularity of netbooks, it is no surprise that many Linux distributions and software developers have created customized versions of their software to run on them. Not to be counted out, KDE now has a version of their desktop environment designed for netbooks.
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openSUSE 11.2 – For New Users and Pros Alike
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openSUSE is a commercially-backed Open Source Linux distribution with origins in Germany. Novell bought SuSE in November 2004 and has been releasing a freely downloadable community-based Linux desktop since August 2005.
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