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Distro Install Cold Turkey
Submitted by Bezdomny on Friday 27th of April 2007 12:52:14 PMIsn't it annoying how things in life pop up and get in the way of what you actually intended to do?
Sharing files between Feisty and Windows
Submitted by ggarron on Wednesday 25th of April 2007 05:37:55 AM Filed under
This How To, describe how to configure in a simple way a samba server on your Feisty Fawn, (could be used for other distros) to share files with windows. Samba on Feisty Fawn
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backing up your mysql database using your browser -with php-
Submitted by ggarron on Sunday 22nd of April 2007 01:11:37 AM Filed under
Hi,
As I wanted to back up my mysql database on a server where I do not have ssh access only ftp, I made this way to do it, there surely be some better ways, if so I will be glad to know about them, but until that this is working for me.
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PCLOS Gnome Project
Submitted by Poiema on Friday 20th of April 2007 03:50:02 AM Filed under
This is just a note that a fairly new project is in the works at MyPCLinuxOS to offer PC Linux OS Gnome 2.18. I am only a tester and our team has not yet released an official test .iso featuring Gnome 2.18. Our Dev's will not be officially releasing anything until the system is as bug free as is possible - in line with the main PCLOS and Texstars philosophy.
I said goodby to Windows XP
Submitted by sinczar on Monday 16th of April 2007 05:09:28 PM Filed under
Well I picked up a perfectly good Gateway laptop last summer that included a Broadcomm modem which is supposedly supported by the Linux kernel, but thats another story.
The DistroNator
Submitted by srlinuxx on Monday 16th of April 2007 05:51:15 AM Filed under
On Oct 24,2003 a build server became self-aware and named himself Texstar and began building rpm pacakages and creating iso's called PCLinuxOS. Other servers became self aware ocilent1, sal server, thac, ivan, davecs, the darb and others and the whole thing became known as the devnet. One goal, one mission... to create the best linux desktop in the world.
Which Distro to choose? - Comparison -(Not a Debian vs Ubuntu vs Fedora vs Centos)
Submitted by ggarron on Saturday 14th of April 2007 07:59:02 PM Filed under
This article compares four of the major distros, from an impartial point of view and try to show some of the facts that make them different, so you can read and choose which better suite your needs.
read it here
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Centos 5.0 Released
Submitted by ggarron on Friday 13th of April 2007 12:10:59 PM Filed under
CentOS 5.0 the Linux distro based on RedHat has been released, few weeks later RedHat itself has been released.
The news for this version of Centos are among others:
Apache-2.2, kernel-2.6.18, Gnome-2.16, KDE-3.5, Compiz, AIGLX, MySQL-5.0, PostgreSQL-8.1, and much more
It has support for i386 and x86_64 platforms, on its 6 and 7 CDs respectively
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Shell Script for Automatically create Apache2 Virtual Servers
Submitted by ggarron on Friday 13th of April 2007 05:29:15 AM Filed under
This script permits you to automatically create Apache2, Virtual server, it creates the directory and the configuration files for the virtual server, useful if you need to create a lot of virtual servers, after this you just need to go to the virtual server directory and create the site itself.
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New Ubuntu to be released by October (Gutsy Gibbon)
Submitted by ggarron on Friday 13th of April 2007 12:22:10 AM Filed under
Ubuntu 7.10 is going to be called Gutsy Gibbon, and will be release by October this year, today the project was introduced by Mark Shuttleworth, read more at Go2Linux.org
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Guided Debian Etch installation (with screenshots)
Submitted by ggarron on Wednesday 11th of April 2007 02:14:40 AM Filed under
The new Debian Etch has been released, here are the installation screenshots, with a step by step guided installation.
Read the complete article of Installing Debian Etch with screenshots
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Debian Etch Stable released!!
Submitted by ggarron on Sunday 8th of April 2007 01:57:08 PM Filed under
This is extracted from the Debian Site, we finally have Etch Stable released!!
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Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 updated
Submitted by ggarron on Sunday 8th of April 2007 01:31:05 PM Filed under
There is a new update for Debian/Sarge, this is security update only, the good new is that reading in lines, we can expect that the final release of Etch is really near, as the sarge is being moved to old stable.
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Do you want to know why I don't use Windows?
Submitted by buttonmasher on Saturday 7th of April 2007 05:18:17 PM Filed under
So I was looking through my selection of spare computer parts and discovered that I had enough to build another computer. My Mint box does everything I need so I wasn't sure what I'd do with a third computer. Then I remembered all the games I used to play on my old windows computer: American McGee's Alice, Command and Conquer, No One Lives Forever, and most recently Albatross 18.
Annual Kaspersky Labs Fearmongering!
Submitted by stmok on Saturday 7th of April 2007 01:53:16 PMMerry Fearmongering!
Kaspersky Labs (maker of the infamous KAV for Windows), has started what I call their "annual fearmongering initiative".
It appears about this time of year, when they release their so-called "Look everyone! We found a proof of concept malware that does something nasty to *insert opensource solution name here*" press releases.
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Puppy Linux 2.15 Community Editio released
Submitted by ggarron on Saturday 7th of April 2007 01:21:06 AM Filed under
The Puppy 2.15CE (Community Edition) is the result of collaboration of a team of Puppy enthusiasts. It is built upon version 2.14 but with many enhancements. In particular the guys have worked on an improved user-interface and nice out-of-the box first impression.
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Launchpad 1.0 Beta Released
Submitted by ggarron on Friday 6th of April 2007 01:23:20 PM Filed under
The Beta version of Lauchpad 1.0 has been released, Lauchpad is a collaboration tool with thousands of users, being cannonical the creator of Ubuntu one of them, read more about lauchpad .
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Linux Mint "Bianca" KDE Edition Beta 020: A Small Review
Submitted by eco2geek on Friday 6th of April 2007 08:37:51 AM Filed under
Linux Mint is an Ubuntu-based distro whose goal in life, per its website, "is to produce an elegant, up to date and comfortable GNU/Linux desktop distribution." The developers have released both GNOME-based and KDE-based versions in the past, and their latest version, v2.2 "Bianca," is already final in its GNOME incarnation.
Official the Beryl and Compiz projects are going to merge
Submitted by ggarron on Friday 6th of April 2007 01:20:19 AM Filed under
According to the Compiz Site, the merge is going to take place, it even has a new name "Composite Community" it is still a temporary name.
Read more "Composite Community" - The new name for Beryl and Compiz project
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Accessibility on a Linux desktop is not one of the strongest points to highlight. However, GNOME, one of the best desktop environments, has managed to do better comparatively (I think).
In a blog post by Christian Fredrik Schaller (Director for Desktop/Graphics, Red Hat), he mentions that they are making serious efforts to improve accessibility.
Starting with Red Hat hiring Lukas Tyrychtr, who is a blind software engineer to lead the effort in improving Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Fedora Workstation in terms of accessibility.
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