Let me preface this by saying that I do not usually have good experiences with Mandriva based releases. Knowing PCLinuxOS is based on Mandriva, and knowing that it was supposed to be a live CD release, I booted up my VirtualBoxOSE and set about running and possibly installing PCLinuxOS.
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Will Linux ever become a popular choice?
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The reality is that Linux has a poor market share, and something needs to change. According to Net Applications Linux’s market share is 0.95%, compared to nearly 93% for Windows and 5% for Mac.
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Why open source will never rule the desktop and why it doesn’t have to
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Ubuntu is lovely. KDE is great. Debian is the bomb. Even OS X is pretty hot stuff. But none of them will ever take the desktop. That’s because the desktop is dying and they have already taken the second – soon-to-be central screen – the cellphone and that’s more than enough. Open source is now mobile.
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Creep Smash from Libregamewiki, the Free Gaming Encyclopedia
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Creep Smash is a multiplayer tower defense game written in Java. It was developed by ten computer science students within a collegiate software project of the University of Applied Science in Stuttgart. The project requirement was to plan, design and implement a Java-based multiplayer version of Tower defense within 2.5 months.
Read more »Todays challenge..go download PCLinuxOS
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Today I’m gonna briefly talk about a distro call PCLinuxOS Why is this one of my personal favs? Well for me it is one of the most user friendly versions, I think if you take a look at it ,mess around a bit with it you will find that you can easily of the basic normal everyday tasks that you do on a windows based PC.
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Chakra Alpha 3: a review
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You have to hand it to the Chakra project developers: they sure have ambition. Don’t expect a remastered Ubuntu here, Chakra takes the do-it-yourself distribution Arch, and tries to make the installation easy, providing you with the latest and greatest KDE in the process.
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Remotely Accessing Your Linux Computer: Part 4
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This is the fourth part in a four part series covering remote access to Linux machines using SSH.
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How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On Fedora 11
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This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid and PHP5 on Fedora 11. mod_fcgid is a compatible alternative to the older mod_fastcgi. It lets you execute PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners instead of the Apache user.
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Developers Plans To Break GTK 3.0 API
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The GTK developers are actually planning to break the GTK 3.0 API intentionally. They are ready to break GTK 3.0 API in order to achieve new features and make changing theme engines easier.
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Build A Linux Distro With SUSE Studio
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Once, if you wanted to create your own Linux distribution, you had to jump through more hoops than your average Cirque du Soleil performer. Now it's possible to automate the vast majority of the process.
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Howto Install Vmware Tools in Ubuntu Jaunty/Intrepid/Hardy
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VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machine’s guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine.Installing VMware Tools in the guest operating system is vital. Although the guest operating system can run without VMware Tools, you lose important functionality and convenience.
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5 of the Best Free Human Resource Management Software
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Human resource management (HRM) is the planned and logical approach to the management of an organization's most valuable assets - its human capital. This resource individually and collectively represents the key to a business meeting its objectives. HRM plays a vital role in any organization.
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FOSS compliance engineering in the embedded industry
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This article examines a field called compliance engineering. Compliance engineering was pioneered by technical experts who wanted to address misuses of software, and was made famous by gpl-violations.org, FSF, and similar organizations correcting Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) license violations.
Read more »Wine 1.1.31 released
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The Wine development release 1.1.31 is now available. With Wine it's possible to run Windows applications on top of Linux.
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How to turn a spare Linux machine into a media server
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Linux is brilliant at serving files. It's this ability that keeps the enterprise world turning to Linux for its heavy lifting jobs and that keeps the world Googling 24/7. But it's just as good at serving files from a computer tucked away under the stairs or stuck in the loft, and a server in your house is now becoming an essential accessory.
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