One thing I forgot to mention about my thus-far-successful adventure tuning my coworker’s VAIO … Xubuntu ran awfully slow on that machine. The live CD was so sluggish as to be unusable. It was PUD/GNU Linux that saved the day, by letting us boot to an extremely lightweight GUI and salvage files off her hard drive.
Read more »How to take a delayed screen shot using the command line in Ubuntu
If you’ve ever wanted to take a screen shot, but add in a bit of a delay, there’s an easy way to do this via your Command Line Interface.
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Programming Erlang is Shipping
"...I'm really excited about this book, both because I think Erlang's style of message-passing concurrency is just what we need as we enter the multi-core world, and also because I think its functional roots are an interesting way of thinking about programming...."
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Linux Distribution Chooser Updated
Today we updated the data used by the Linux/BSD Distribution Chooser aka distro quiz. The data has been adjusted to the current development status of the included distributions. We also added support for two new systems: NetBSD and KateOS.
Read more »Liberation Ubuntu Script...
After recently writing a script to Install Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 in Ubuntu, I’ve decided to write more scripts to complete other tasks. So instead of having to manually run these commands to install Liberation fonts in Ubuntu, you can now run this script to do everything you need.
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 In Ubuntu...
Thunderbird is great. I use it everyday to check my three email accounts, all at once. However, the Thunderbird in Ubuntu Feisty’s repositories is a little outdated...
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Pardus 2007.2 — new cat in town
I've already written two Pardus reviews -- 2007 Beta 2 and 2007.1. So it's time for a review of 2007.2 Caracal release. In this article I will focus on the key changes and my personal thoughts concerning this interesting distribution.
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E17 as a Desktop — don’t try this at home!
E17 is a still being developed version of a graphical environment called Enlightenment. E17 has been developed for a long time already. Updates have been appearing often, but they used to become obsolete in a few weeks after releases. Has anything changed suddenly?
Read more »Linux Tips for Newbies - Surviving the Internet with Linux
In today’s article we will go over some ideas or suggestions for some alternate programs that can be used on the Internet. With these few open source programs, a new Linux user can survive the Internet and not pull his or her hair out. Do you want to know what the best part is? The best part is, it may cost them one tenth or at no charge.
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Arch Linux Installation Guide
This is going to be my attempt at a newbies installation guide for Arch Linux. This will be a "take you by the hand and lead you through it step by step" approach. Unlike most lead you by the hand guides that tell you to do this, and do that, I intend to also tell you WHY you are doing what you're doing.
Read more »rTorrent — console P2P!
In this article I’d like to describe a text-mode Bittorrent client - rTorrent. It will be helpful to people that share a computer with other household members because it allows them to download files regardless of the logged in user.
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Intel aims parallelism aid at open source fans
Hoping to inspire people to write code that can run on its multi-core processors, Intel has open sourced one of its development packages.
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Why (almost) Everyone Should Try Ubuntu
If you're a hardcore Gentoo or Slackware type, go away and read something else. You're probably not going to like what I'm about to say. (But rest assured that I respect and admire your dedication to running the leanest GNU/Linux install you can muster, and I do indeed care about preserving your freedom of choice.) For now, however, I'm talking to the newbs out there.
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Looking for inline code editors
"I was asked to find an inline “code editor” which means a script or a flash widget or a (shudder) applet that allows for editing of code (PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS) inside an application. There are a lot of inline Rich Text editors and even some WYSIWYG editors, but the online editor that allows you to properly code inside an HTML document is CodePress."
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Linux’s Basic Directories Explained
If you have ever wonder what is in Linux’s basic directories located under the system’s root “/”, the video edition of Chess Griffin’s Linuxreality Podcast #11 can help you understand it.
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