Buried deep in the Linux man pages is a command called dd. You know how short commands like cat, ps, grep, rm or mv are really powerful? dd owns all of them. It copies data between block files- image files or device files. It's simple enough to use...
Read more »How To Manage An iPod From A Linux Desktop With Songbird 0.3
This article shows how you can use an iPod on a Linux desktop with Songbird 0.3. It covers how you can upload MP3 files from your desktop to your iPod, download MP3 files from your iPod to your desktop, and how you can delete files on the iPod. Normally, Apple's iTunes software is needed to manage an iPod, but iTunes is not available for Linux.
Read more »Flyback: Backup & recovey tool for Linux!
Flyback is a backup and recovery tool loosley modified by Apple’s “Time Machine”.. So here is a Linux implementation (built off of rsync, of course). No fancy OpenGL, but quite functional none-the-less.”
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Easily Sudo-open that File
If you are using GNOME and a distribution that supports either sudo or su, then we have a quick tip for you.
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Fix for Limewire blank beryl problem
If you are working limewire with beryl you might see blank beryl problem here is the solution for this...
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Feature plans for Fedora 9
Fedora 8 is out now and plans for Fedora 9 are made. The feature list is already in place and contains several entries.
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Distribution Statistics- Ubuntu Tops again
Distrowatch has released some interesting stats about distribution popularity.
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Linux Media Player Roundup - Part 3
Welcome to part 3 of our Linux Media Player Roundup. Today we'll be covering even more media players that are available for Linux, and even touching on a couple that do more than just play music, they also play your movies and dvd's.
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Home Server Project
Ubuntu Home Server (UHS) will be an edition of the Ubuntu operating system which allows users to administer their home network. With Ubuntu Home Server you will be able to store all your music, songs and pictures in one central location, to access your files over the internet and to backup all the computers in your house.
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Fedora Games Live DVD
Fedora Games spin is a custom variant of Fedora targeted at Linux gamers. This is to demonstrate the gaming potential of Fedora without altering user's existing configuration. The Live DVD also allows installation to hard disk or USB flash.
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Ubuntu vs openSUSE
I was glancing through the top searches for my site and noticed one string I thought I'd try to answer it. That search was openSUSE vs Ubuntu. Now, I've avoided formally comparing Ubuntu to other distros such as openSUSE or Mandriva before because in my book it's like comparing apples to oranges, but for the sake of those searching, I will try.
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Intuit slow on Quicken and Quickbooks for Linux
Linux desktop users looking for good financial software to run natively can forget about Quicken and Quickbooks. One glance at Intuit's website should be enough to convince even devout users of that company's products that despite Quickbooks for Linux servers showing strong growth, a port to Linux desktops is a long way off and a Linux version of Quicken is not even on the radar.
Read more »Miro 1.0 is Here
"I am incredibly excited to announce the launch of Miro 1.0..."
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Fix for Master password expose for Pidgin
Pidgin is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes.
Read more »DSL 4.0: Damn small improvement
Damn Small Linux is tiny Linux distribution that John Andrews originally created in 2002 to see just how many applications could fit into a 50MB system. The project has grown over the years to include many other contributors working on hundreds of packages and applications.
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