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17. November 2009 by admin.
ONE of the cool things about using Linux is the degree to which you can customize your system. If you want to make it look and act like a Mac, you can. Want the Windows 7 or Vista glassy look? No problem. You can do that, too.
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17. November 2009 by admin.
Red Hat announced today the official release of Fedora 12, the latest version of the popular open source Linux distribution. This release brings some impressive new features and a lot of much-needed bugfixes. It’s a strong update that puts the distro on the right track forward and addresses the serious installation problems that we encountered when we tested Fedora 11.
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17. November 2009 by admin.
I was just recently blown away by what I can accomplish with the Debian installer on getting Debian installed on a system. I used to think that the openSUSE installer was the most flexible Linux installer, with Anaconda running a close second, but I think I’m going to at least put the Debian installer in a 2-way tie for first with openSUSE. The only reason I would say that, is because the openSUSE installer uses a hub-and-spoke design to installing the operating system. This means you can pick and choose what you want to install, rather than going through the entire installer itself. Further, the openSUSE installer supports installing from a SMB share on a Windows network, with neither Anaconda nor the Debian installer support (that I can tell).
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17. November 2009 by admin.
Recently I have installed Kubuntu 9.10 on my school computer, just to see how it would work under the stress of all the school work I do. I must say – it’s excelling at the job.
A while back I gave KDE 4 a pretty rough review, slamming it on it’s look, its function, and stability. So far, I have to say that I was wrong. It looks absolutely fantastic, the applications are working well, and I have only experienced a few crashes.
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17. November 2009 by admin.
This is the kind of thing I’d normally just tweet about, but the problem with Twitter is that if it’s not doing anything for you, i.e. bringing you (or me) traffic, you’re just giving away your time.
Hence I pretty much have relegated Twitter to promoting my other writing. It’s gotta pay the freight. After 600+ tweets, I’m stalled at about 130 followers. If I had 1,000 or more followers, I might feel differently. But I don’t. And I don’t.
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17. November 2009 by admin.
Rumours abound that Google’s Chrome OS will be ‘open sourced’ in the coming week, although the early glimpses are likely to be some way from the final product due for release in late 2010.
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17. November 2009 by admin.
Normally a change in the automounting of USB drives in Ubuntu wouldn’t be a big deal.
But in my case I’ve been using shell scripts to back up my Ubuntu box to USB drives via rsync. And before Karmic, those USB drives automounted with the name “disk” and woujld be at /media/disk/ in the filesystem. That was perfect for my shell script to target for the backup.
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17. November 2009 by admin.
The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today announced the availability of Fedora 12, the latest version of its free open source operating system distribution. Fedora 12 includes a robust feature set for desktop users, administrators, developers and open source enthusiasts alike. New enhancements available in Fedora 12 include next-generation Ogg Theora video, virtualization improvements and advancements to NetworkManager, among numerous others.
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