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10. November 2009 by admin.
Mandriva Linux 2010 was recently released and brings lots of nice improvements to an already nice system. Mandriva has a long and distinguished history in the Linux distribution arena. They began over a decade ago using Red Hat as their base and quickly became the preferred choice of the new Linux user.
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10. November 2009 by admin.
Mandriva is a veteran in Linux circles, having now been around for over ten years. The company has been through a lot, including hard economic times, a merger, some different business models and a name change. But, despite its trials, Mandriva is still here and this week the development team released their 2010 product line. I took this opportunity to put the latest release through its paces.
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10. November 2009 by admin.
I’ve had more than a little trouble with all things GNOMEish in Ubuntu 9.10 since upgrading from 9.04. I’ve solved all of the issues thus far but discovered another last night.
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10. November 2009 by admin.
The Reiser4 file-system has been around since 2004 but has not reached a point of being close to be included in the mainline Linux kernel, especially after the lead developer, Hans Reiser, was convicted of murdering his wife. Development
of Reiser4 has continued on, albeit with a very limited number of developers, and not nearly at the brisk pace of Btrfs or with great interest by corporate parties.
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10. November 2009 by admin.
This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu Studio 9.10 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.
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10. November 2009 by admin.
Most people who use Linux for desktop use are well aware of the one of the largest issues facing the platform: Lack of commercial software. Now in most cases this is not an issue, no MS Office - use OpenOffice, no Internet Explorer - use FireFox. However one thing which there is currently no replacement for is gaming. Try as they might there are just not enough Open-Source game developers (or even closed-sourced ones) that bring the level of gaming quality, as of yet, to Linux that Windows enjoys.
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10. November 2009 by admin.
Clonezilla is a Ncurses-based front-end to a set of scripts that use several open source disk utilities such as Partimage, ntfsclone, Partclone and dd. It’ll jump at your command and duplicate particular partitions, or better still complete disks. It’ll also restore the partitions, and help you mirror an old disk onto a bigger new disk.
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10. November 2009 by admin.
For the longest time operating systems have been able to handle swap. In short swap extends physical memory with slow diskspace so that applications can use more memory than there is available.
On most unix systems the swap is in a dedicated partition because that has the lowest overhead. Plus you don’t risk running out of diskspace when you want to swap, so things are quite predictable and nice. Linux has a very nice knob you can turn to affect the swap policy. It will not avoid swapping (in some situations you will have to), but it will affect how and when swap is used. That knob is /proc/sys/vm/swappiness.
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10. November 2009 by admin.
Nautilus is a file manager which provides a simple and integrated way to manage your files and applications and you can use it to do the following:
* Create folders and documents
* Display your files and folders
* Search and manage your files
* Run scripts and launch applications
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10. November 2009 by admin.
Through the years I’ve run many versions of Microsoft Windows. For the last two and one-half years I’ve had Apple Macs, so I’ve used both OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard. I don’t even know how many different desktop Linux distributions I’ve installed, but I’ve certainly installed Linux at least 20 times, maybe as many as 40.
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10. November 2009 by admin.
9.10 has several issues with newest ASUS laptop UL range, whilst 9.04 works flawlessly on these new laptops…
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10. November 2009 by admin.
Security is probably the most important aspect of any computing experience and probably one of the most neglected. With security measures, like many things, one can go as deep as they want to go but a little effort to employ the basics can go a long way. While it is said that locks are only for honest people, you wouldn’t go to bed without locking your door. Let’s lock your door by securing your D-Link Wireless Router
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10. November 2009 by admin.
Most of my day is spent in front of the computer. Thus a perfectly functioning machine is of vital importance to me. I do not want to worry about viruses and spyware. I do not want to have to defrag my harddisk every now and then or reboot everytime I install a new application. I do not want to worry about some malicious software or hacker gaining control of my computer. Since I multitask all the time, I do not want to be limited to a single workspace. In short, I want a computer that is secure and gives me what I need.
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10. November 2009 by admin.
In the days when Ubuntu 9.10, Mandriva 2010 and openSUSE 11.2 are having their releases, installing PCLinuxOS 2009.2 seems like taking a step backwards. But how could I refuse to try what I had considered to be my favourite Linux distro
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10. November 2009 by admin.
While I like the Linux desktop a lot, I don’t pretend that it’s that popular. That’s why I found it fascinating that, despite everything Microsoft has been able to throw at it, desktop Linux still managed to claim 32% of the netbook market.
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10. November 2009 by admin.
Today I installed Kubuntu 9.10 on three different computers to see how much progress this once awesome distro has made in a year. This is what I found.
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10. November 2009 by admin.
Google Chrome OS may still be a year away from making its debut, but TechRadar readers are champing at the bit to get hold of the Windows competitor.
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10. November 2009 by admin.
It’s big, black, fast, and appeals to Linux and motorcycle enthusiasts alike: the new E-motorcycle TTX02 from Mavizen.
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10. November 2009 by admin.
One of the few utility programs that are used every day on mobile devices is a wireless networking tool, but somehow this is one of the last applications to appear for KDE 4. With the autumn 2009 crop of Linux distributions, a usable client for the widely used NetworkManager system finally makes its debut.
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10. November 2009 by admin.
This addon allows installing ubuntu packages from iceweasel, firefox, galeon or konqueror just clicking on a web link.
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