The Venture Cake Weblog introduces 10 uncommon terminal commands — although you won’t be needing these commands on a daily basis, they’re good to keep in your back pocket. Included in the ten is one particularly interesting command that demonstrates how to generate a random password for a new user.
5. Set a Random Initial […]
Popular mechanics recently compared free software with their for-pay alternatives.
PC applications are becoming increasingly bloated, complex and expensive. And most users don’t even know half the features included in the software they buy. Meanwhile, open-source “freeware” applications are growing in both number and sophistication. They may not have all the bells and whistles of their […]
Linux Planet has an excellent tutorial demonstrating how to encrypt data in Linux. The tutorial requires you to install the package cryptsetup.
Today let us focus on the issue of protecting sensitive data on hard drives with encrypted file systems. This is for your mobile users and anyone who needs extra data security on workstations and […]
Adobe Labs announced that the Flash 9 Beta is available for Linux. Please note that before you go grabbing the Flash update, they recommend completely removing any older versions of Flash that you may have on your system.
Adobe Labs is currently featuring prerelease versions of the Flash Player 9 Update software. This update includes enhancements […]
I came across an interesting thread on the Ubuntu Forums this morning. The thread is related to why many Linux users try their damnedest to make their desktop resemble other operating systems. I’ll even admit that I’ve done it a few times myself — I used to go for the Mac OS X […]
As an Ubuntu user on a Macbook, my lack of a right-click button has been a pretty big annoyance. For those of you who didn’t realize, by default Ubuntu forces the F12 key to emulate the right-click button. Unfortunately, when I first installed Ubuntu on my Macbook (obviously I don’t have a right-click […]
System76 is offering free Ubuntu stickers for your computer. The sticker is shown above and the idea is that you place the Ubuntu sticker directly over the obnoxious Microsoft sticker that comes on your PC. System76 is offering the stickers for free assuming you send a self-addressed pre-paid envelope. System76 has partnered with […]
Last week I introduced Kompozer as an alternative to the now sunset Nvu. I also expressed my difficulty in finding a pre-compiled DEB version of the application. Reader Jonas Bark came through again, and pointed us to a compiled version of Kompozer over at GetDeb. GetDeb is a great resource for finding pre-compiled […]
I just stumbled across a new user art site for Linux called Art4Linux.org. The site has a decent user following and some pretty interesting artwork. If you’re looking for some other art site, feel free to hit up the “Look” sites:
Gnome Look
KDE Look
Xfce Look
Art for Linux
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Reader Jonas Bark brought to my attention that KompoZer will replace Nvu. After checking out Jonas’ comment and then hitting up the Debian forums, it appears that Nvu hasn’t been updated in a very long time. Consequently, kompoZer was started as a “bug-fix” fork and will hopefully be making its way into the […]
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