These days we all seem to have at least one old laptop we no longer use that we just can’t get around to throwing away…. Enter Crunchbang!
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How To Recover Your Linux Root Password
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Let's face it: you can sometimes forget a password, because well... it happens! I can't help you with all of them, but I can tell you how to recover your lost Linux root password thanks to Tips4Linux. Just follow the below steps to recover it:
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KMess 2.0 is (finally!) out
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I’m very, very happy to announce that the KMess team has released KMess version 2.0, after more than an year and an half of development!
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Cubuntu - Console Ubuntu part II
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The Console is one of the more interesting parts of the Ubuntu system. It is where the Command Line lives and where instructions can be passed to the machine using any number of commands and scripting formulas.
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Distro Hoppin`: antiX MEPIS 8.2
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For those of you who don't know, antiX MEPIS is the resource-friendly version of SimplyMEPIS, a great Linux distribution based on the even greater Debian. With a bit of extrapolation, it's obvious that antiX is built upon Debian.
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2 reasons why small package repository is better than large
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I am in the middle of CentOS and Ubuntu comparison frenzy. It started with an attempt to assert quality of Linux distributions made for busy people. Today I am considering packaging. When comparing Ubuntu and CentOS packaging systems, first thing that crosses my mind is that, well, size matters. Ubuntu has nearly 70000 packages. CentOS has around 6000.
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Make MPlayer play h264 video files faster on multicore machines
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You can make MPlayer play h264-encoded video files a lot faster on multicore machines if you graft some libraries from the ffmpeg-mt project into the resulting mplayer binary. We need to recompile for this.
Read more »Mini-Distro-Review: Tiny Core Linux
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I heard about Tiny Core Linux a few months ago and given its description as a minimalistic Linux designed to build to your own specifications from the ground up it sounded right up my alley.
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Linux Games: Zsnes (Super Nintendo Emulator)
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I have a confession to make. My favorite game of all time is Zombies Ate My Neighbors. It was a classic Super Nintendo game. Lately I had been jonesin’ to play that game so I was about to plop down some cash for an old SNES when I came across Zsnes.
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Does Linux Have a 'Safe Mode'?
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I recently upgraded a friend of mine to Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop for his five-year-old Acer laptop with 512 MB of RAM. I installed the latest stable version of Ubuntu and he immediately fell in love. What came next was a bit of a shock.
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Face off with Fedora and Ubuntu Linux
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While I was working, the screen froze up and I noticed the hard drive thrashing away. After powering the PC down, I noticed it could not find a a working Linux image to boot off of. So loaded a copy of Fedora.
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Music Player Review '09 edition - Wave 1.5
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Wave 1.5 just asks two questions. Playing all the songs on shuffle. Generating a playlist is fine as long as I can select multiple (read all) folders. Who is out?
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Getting Your iPhone Pictures to Your Linux Machine
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Had been doubtful this would work and upon initial searches, didn't think it should. But I found a way today to manage your iPhone photos with your linux machine without any tricks or hacks. Read on for the super easy and quick way.
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World Of Goo is a breath of fresh air for gamers in linux
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It has been an year since the official release of Linux version of the popular game World Of Goo. With its easy to use interface and breathtaking physics engine, it has proved to be the game of a different kind.
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Hands-on with an alpha of the Jolicloud netbook distro
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Jolicloud is a Linux-based netbook OS that is built on top of Canonical's Ubuntu Netbook Remix. It uses Mozilla's Prism environment to make Web applications accessible outside of the browser.
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