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Sabayon 5.2 Screenshots

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The Sabayon 5.2 release features Xorg 7.5, GNOME 2.28, KDE 4.4.1, XBMC 9.11 and much more. Sabayon is know for offering cutting edge features, great application selection and out-of-the-box experience that is unmatched by any. The Sabayon 5.2 release also comes with a uniquely blue theme that I found to be quite attractive, check it out.

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Command Line Basics: List Hard Drives By UUID

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Recent versions of Linux use a unique identifier for hard drives in order to make sure they get mounted to the same location all the time. If you've looked into your /etc/fstab file for auto mounting drives, then you're probably already familiar with the long character strings that are used for UUID's.

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Understanding viruses in Linux

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When I started using Linux one of the things that got my attention initially was reading that there were no viruses in Linux, which was quite a departure from Windows ways. I was always curious about that... How could it be?

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How to find out Your Ubuntu / Debian is 32 bit or 64 bit

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Some times you need to know , Your Ubuntu / Debian is 32 bit or 64 bit,

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How to install 32bit deb applications in 64bit Ubuntu Linux system

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Most of the 64 bit ubuntu users need to install their popular 32 applications. Some times it will return an error you have to use ia32 libraries. .In ubuntu Linux you can easily install ia32 Libraries.

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Switch Between KDM and GDM on Ubuntu

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If u have installed Ubuntu over an kubuntu or vice versa , u may switch over gdm to kdm or kdm to gdm .This can be done in simple steps .

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Google Into 3D Driver Game

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help out the adoption of WebGL, the Khronos-backed API originally started by Mozilla that seeks to let web developers tap into modern graphics processors via the web-browser natively, has caused Google to get into the graphics driver game.

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Removable disk encryption with dm-crypt/LUKS

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dm-crypt is a device-mapper target that provides transparent encryption of block devices using the new Linux 2.6 cryptoapi.

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There’s a Lot in the Dot: Filesystem Permissions and Pathnames (Part 2)

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Still deeper into the dot (.) with an dive into access permissions. Study up because there’s going to be a quiz.

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DNS: Zone Files on Ubuntu 10.04

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There are several categories of zones that must be configured. You need to have forward lookup zones, which allow the nameserver to match names to IP Addresses. You’ll define these zones in the /etc/bind directory, in files with the “db” prefix.

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Purge Removed Packages On Ubuntu/Debian

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When a package is uninstalled, its configuration files are left on the system, in case you’ll want to install it again. Purging a package gets rid of these configuration files.

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Basic Package Management Operations Using Aptitude

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aptitude is a featureful package manager for Debian GNU/Linux systems, based on the renowned apt package management infrastructure. aptitude provides the functionality of dselect and apt-get, as well as many additional features not found in either program.

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How to install Open office 3.2 Stable version in ubuntu 9.10 using Scribblers ppa

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OpenOffice scribblers PPA was finally updated and here's how you can upgrade your openoffice to the latest build in ubuntu 9.10

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Python RRDTool Tutorial

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RRDtool is the OpenSource industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data.

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How to view the performance details of individual CPUs in the top command

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You can view the performance details of each CPUs of your machine in the top command by pressing...

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