Just as using your car's trunk as storage space is plain wrong, there are circumstances when using Linux, no matter how benevolent the effort may be or the users seemingly pleased with their evangelistic experiences, is misguided.
Read more »No Support?
I recently mentioned Linux in a conversation that started with "I'm tired of the problems my computer has with Windows" and was told that Linux doesn't have any support. Really? Then the dozens of websites, mailing lists, news feeds and IRC channels that I use must be figments of my imagination.
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How to retain changes in Backtrack 4 installed on USB
In this article we will describe how we can create a bootable Backtrack 4 USB Drive that will save all the changes we make on the USB itself. In this scenario we will use 2 USB Drives. One USB drive of 1GB and the 2GB USB drive which will hold our changes.
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Bordeaux 1.8.6 for Linux Released
The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 1.8.6 for Linux today. Bordeaux 1.8.6 fixes a critical bug in the rpcrt4.dll. If you have had problems with Bordeaux 1.8.x not installing a application we recommend you update to 1.8.6 and the problem should now be resolved. Bordeaux allows Linux users to run many of today's popular windows based applications and games on Linux.
Read more »Top 12 Linux & FLOSS advertisements & videos
Surfing the net all this time on topics related to GNU/Linux, Free and Open Source Software, I came across various interesting, imaginative and some times funny advertisements and videos. Here are the top 12, in random order.
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Ubuntu Privacy Remix: UPR 9.04r2 released
Announced by UPR team the release of the second stable release of Ubuntu Privacy Remix 9.04. All software packages including the kernel were updated to their newest version to close security holes and fix bugs.
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Time for a New Puppy: Puppy Linux 4.3
Mac OS X Snow Leopard? Windows 7? Forget it. The coolest OS release of the year is Puppy Linux 4.3.
Read more »Linux and plethorization
Why is it that Linux distros divide and multiply? And do we have a better name for how and why that's done than, say, "forking"? That question goes through my mind when I look at the ever-changing Top 100 list at DistroWatch, and when I look, for example, at the many children of Debian, including grandchildren through Ubuntu.
Read more »KDE's Project Silk Frees the Web from Browser Limitations
Content from the web becomes easily accessible to applications and in extension to the user. Web applications become first class citizens on the desktop. Local clients are enhanced by the web, the web experience is enhanced by local clients' possibilities.
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The Grumpy Editor's hugin experience
The free software community has produced a wealth of tools for the manipulation of image data. For simple changes, such as cropping, resizing, or basic contrast tweaking, any of a number of programs can be used. More complex changes will require falling back to tools like the GIMP, krita, or cinepaint.
Read more »Task Oriented Semantic Desktop in Mandriva Linux 2010 RC1
Mandriva Linux 2010 RC1 has been out for a few days. It includes many new end-user features for innovative metadata management on the desktop. This is a walkthrough of these semantic desktop features that bring task oriented desktop to Linux. The new semantic features are based on innovative Nepomuk, Scribo and KDE technologies.
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Ubuntu Version 10.04 Code Named Lucid Lynx
Attendees at Atlanta Linux Fest's breakout session Ubuntucon were among the first to hear straight from Mark Shuttleworth that the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu's next release -- version 10.04 -- will be named Lucid Lynx.
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Distro Review: SAM Linux 2009
After some delay it’s finally time for me to write up my thoughts about SAM Linux 2009, a distro I must confess I hadn’t really heard of until someone asked me to review it. It’s a German distribution based on the very popular PCLinuxOS. So how would I get on with this unknown quantity (to me at least), read on to find out…
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Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Debian Lenny
Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, virtual hosts, authentication, on the fly encoding, load balancing, Apache compatible log files, and much more.
Read more »Community Members Invited To Qt Developer Days 2009
The last few years has seen the company formerly known as Trolltech open their arms to one of the largest parts of their supporting community, KDE, in a new way: By offering a few members of the KDE community free admittance to the Qt Developer Days conference. This year is no different, and they have invited a number of people to attend this year&'s conferences.
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