Brian McArthur, the director of technology at Advantage Professionals, a managed services provider in Charlotte, N.C., wanted a better way to perform bare-metal installations on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server. He and his engineering staff used a pre-boot execution environment or PXE Boot server and the kick-start process for automating Linux installations.
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Install Extra GNOME Themes
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Looking for some Ubuntu themes? The GNOME themes extras package provides two excellent themes and some popular icon themes.
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Where do people find the time?
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(via planetkde.org) Transcript: http://www.shirky.com/herecomeseverybody/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html
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IBM open collaboration client solution: Technical planning
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Learn the steps involved in migrating your environment to that of a Linux client, including technical planning. Based on customer experiences, this article offers a comprehensive guide to planning and executing your migration while minimizing disruption to your users.
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Six Twitter clients for the Linux desktop and one for the road
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Twitter is a popular social networking utility that's gaining popularity as a micro-blogging tool. Registered users can post messages -- also called Tweets -- via the Web interface, but many prefer to use desktop applications that offer additional functionality and move Tweeting out of the browser entirely.
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Will the “12:00 flashers” change Linux?
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Here’s an interesting experiment. Take a novice user, place them in front of a Linux distro (in this case Ubuntu Hardy Heron), and see how they get on with basic tasks. But will these “12:00 flashers” (you know, people who’s VCRs constantly flash “12:00″ because they’ve not bothered to figure out how to set the time) help change Linux and make it easier to use?
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Criminal hackers claim copyright over malware
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Even criminal hackers want to protect their intellectual property, and they've come up with a method akin to copyrighting - with an appropriate dash of internet thuggery thrown in.
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Choosing a font manager
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With libraries of thousands of fonts to handle, designers need a way to quickly locate fonts and organize them into meaningful categories -- such as by the project that requires them -- and to disable fonts when they are not in use so that they don't clog system memory.
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Adobe establishes Open Screen Project, opens SWF and FLV formats
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Adobe's Open Screen Project aims to create one Flash and one AIR runtime that can run across PCs and other smaller form-factor devices. Adobe has also removed the licensing restrictions for proprietary media formats used with Flash (FLV and SWF), so developers can now create their own third-party Flash players.
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Free Ubuntu softwares that are good alternatives to Mac OS X’s
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Ubuntu offers a number of open source alternatives for users migrating from Mac OS X who use Apple’s iLife suite.
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Has Darl McBride lost it?
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During the SCO vs Novell trial, last year, it was determined that Novell owned the copyrights to AT&T UNIX' source code and derivatives. Darl McBride, CEO of SCO speaking at the Novell vs SCO countertrial disagrees. He "stated that SCO holds the copyrights over UNIX", and that "many Linux contributors were originally UNIX developers.
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Distribution Release: gNewSense 2.0
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"Brian Brazil has announced the final release of gNewSense 2.0 "DeltaH", a 100% "libre" distribution based on the recently released Ubuntu 8.04: ..."
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Release: GNU Wget 1.11.2
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"Announcing the release of version 1.11.2 of GNU Wget, a bugfix release..."
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Vista Business . . . boring.
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Last night I went to a presentation/pitch for Vista deployment in the enterprise (there's a Star-Trek joke in there somewhere). It's not that I'm dissatisfied with Linux, but I like to know what's going on with Windows, especially since we do deploy Windows machines at work. At some level I always want to learn something new. What I learned was more pitch than enlightenment.
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Get DeltaH, gNewSense 2.0
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"BOSTON, MA, USA — May 1, 2008 — The gNewSense project today announced the release of DeltaH, the second version of their all free-software GNU/Linux distribution..."
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