To write it down clearly: I don't like clones. There are too many distro's out there as it is. Over the last years I have had many people ask me: I have tried Distro X, Y and Z, can you help me?
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17 Web Browsers for Linux
There are many web browsers for Linux, but everyone has different needs, some prefer customizable browsers with all the wizz and bang of plugins and themes, while others prefer lighter browsers that don’t have so many features and add-ons.
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HOWTO setup Squid Proxy & DansGuardian Internet Content Filter in ubuntu
Installing Apache
Setting a Static IP Address
Installing and Configuring Squid
Install the Squid Proxy Server
Restarting Squid and DansGuardian
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How to create a custom linux file system within another
With the power bestowed upon us, we can create a Linux file system in a file. Humanly speaking, we can create a file containing specific file system and mount it as if it were a partition of a hard drive.
To do this, we must firs
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ext4 on Ubuntu 9.04
It all started back in the good ol’ days of the Jaunty development cycle when I heard this new fangled filesystem thingy called ext4 was going to be an option in Jaunty. It claimed to be faster with much shorter fsck times. So, like any good Ubuntu developer, I tried it.
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Bazaar for Subversion users, part 1 - the basics
This is a first in the series of articles about Bazaar, the distributed VCS. It is targeted at Subversion users who want a little more from their VCS.
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A tale of 2 distros, Ubuntu to Fedora
Fedora, following Ubuntu, was the next major Linux distribution to rev to a new release. This one is fedora 11. It continues along history of subtle and not so subtle refinements of the distribution.
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How open source is growing up
There is no doubt that free technologies, mainly open source software, are proving more popular both inside and outside the computer industry.
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Atari 7800 goes open source
Remember the Dig Dug or Centipede or Robotron? They used to be favorites when Atari’s 7800 series was still around. Now since the era of those consoles is over and a different world of interactive reality gaming has taken over, Atari has unofficially released source code of over 15 games for the coders and enthusiasts to admire.
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Mozilla Rushing to Fix Firefox 3.5 Bugs
Mozilla plans to release a patched version of its latest browser, to be named Firefox 3.5.1, in response to certain bugs that have revealed themselves following Firefox 3.5's June 30 release.
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Microsoft And Linux Hold Peace Tweets
Okay, it’s not exactly the Camp David Summit that took place in 2000 between the Israelis and the Palestinians, but sometimes the littlest gestures can go a long way.
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Codecs Should Be Bundled
One of the most problematic new user challenges in Linux is the problem of codecs and DVD playback. These are major challenges, since they cannot be legally included with existing Linux distributinos without paying a per-user license fee.
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OpenShot Is A Great Linux Non-Linear Video Editor
OpenShot has too many great features to list them all here but here are a few of them:
* Support for many video, audio, and image formats (based on FFmpeg)
* Gnome integration (drag and drop support)
* Multiple tracks
* Clip resizing, trimming, snapping, and cutting
* Video transitions with real-time previews
* Compositing, image overlays, watermarks
How To Fix Full-Screen Flash Videos in Linux & Firefox (or Swiftfox)
By default, Firefox (or Swiftfox) crashes when trying to view a full-screen video on say... YouTube. At least for me it used to crash until I found a fix and from what I've understand it's got something to do with the graphic card drivers and it's affecting both nVidia and ATI. If that is the case for you also, you may want to read on.
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What Is And How To Install Swiftfox Web Browser in Ubuntu and Other Linux Distributions
I am aware of the fact that probably 90% of you must already know about Swiftfox so this post is for the other 10% of WebUpd8 readers. I wrote about how to fix full-screen flash in Firefox and Swiftfox but I never mentioned what Swiftfox is.
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