The world of Linux applications continues to expand and improve, so check out Eric Geier's roundup of ten great Linux applications you might not have discovered yet: media players, Web page designer, video creation, run Linux on Windows, Windows apps on Linux, and more.
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What makes Linux different from Unix ?
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We are very familiar with Linux and its relation with UNIX.But most us of dont actually know what are differnces between the two.
Linux is called Unix-like and is not a true Unix operating system.
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QA with Matt Asay: How Linux is Beating Apple and Much More
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Matt took some time recently to share his perspective with me on why Canonical can take Linux places Red Hat can't, how Linux beats Apple, and how the Ubuntu community's passion and focus on design will change the way people see Linux for a long time.
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Ex-Sun man Bray takes on paranoid Android role at Google
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XML co-inventor and languages expert Tim Bray has taken a job at Google just a month after he left Oracle. "As of this morning I work for Google. The title is 'Developer Advocate'. The focus is Android. Fun is expected," he wrote in a blog post titled "Now A No-Evil Zone".
Read more »Get the Most Out of Your Open-Source Software With Redirection in Bash
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It took me ages to learn bash redirection properly, and I still have to concentrate sometimes to keep my &s and my >s straight. Here's the lowdown in case you, too, have intermittent brain failure on this one.
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Striping Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS On Fedora 12
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This tutorial shows how to do data striping (segmentation of logically sequential data, such as a single file, so that segments can be assigned to multiple physical devices in a round-robin fashion and thus written concurrently) across four single storage servers (running Fedora 12) with GlusterFS.
Read more »Banish boring terminal windows with Bashish
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Swedish student Thomas Eriksson says a lot of advanced computer usage is still best done from the terminal. Given that, he’s developed Bashish to provide a more useful and beautiful terminal environment.
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Four Things Firefox Could Learn from IE
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It’s popular to hate on IE8, and easy to do! But the truth is, Firefox could take a few cues from stodgy old Internet Explorer.
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An adventure with an HP printer/scanner and Ubuntu
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For a while now I’ve been thinking about some ideas for a project that will require a scanner. No problem you think, scanners of various kinds have been supported in Linux for a long time.
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Nokia's N900: Desktop Linux without the desk.
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In a previous post I wrote about how easy it was to use Nokia’s N900 out of the box. Today I’ll give you just a taste of what’s possible when you unlock the its full potential as handheld Linux computer.
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Installing software in Ubuntu
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I regularly sit in the #ubuntu channel on the Freenode network helping folks with Ubuntu issues. One of the things I see people often doing is attempting to install software from source before researching easier installation methods.
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Install Linux Mint (Slab Fork) Main Menu in Ubuntu
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If you ever used or seen some screenshots of Linux Mint (or openSUSE), I'm sure you noticed how amazing it's menu is. I don't know about you, but I've always wanted to install it in Ubuntu. Sure, you could install Gnome Main Menu ( sudo apt-get install gnome-main-menu ) but I don't find it to be nowhere near as useful as the Linux Mint main menu.
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Set up Xen 3.4.3 Dom0 via xenified 2.6.31.12 kernel on top of Ubuntu 9.10 Server
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Following bellow is build Xen Host on top Ubuntu 9.10 Server.It is based on direct clone via "hg" and build Xen 3.4.3-rc4 from xensource.com , applying Andrew Lyon's 2.6.31 patch set V12...
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openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 3 is out
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The third of seven scheduled milestone releases for 11.3 was completed and released on schedule. Milestone 3 focuses on using GCC 4.5 as the default compiler, leaving a great deal of the work in the hands of the openSUSE Build Service after a few issues (such as kernel panics) were resolved.
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Uget - Free and Open Source download manager
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Uget is a Free and Open Source download manager, it has many of features like easy-to-use, support pause and resume, classify download, every category has an independent configuration.
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