New Linux User

September 6th, 2007

6 important points on migration from Windows to Linux

An article on Computerworld seems to sum up the important points in migrating from Windows to Linux.

There are different migration paths you could take. And so you must know what they are before you decide. Starting from scratch, meaning, a new machine altogether would be a relatively easy setup.
Your data is important so […]

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September 5th, 2007

Trivia: Unix-Linux timeline

Ever wondered about the Unix-Linux timeline? Do check out the timeline here. It is not yet complete because it only has the major distributions from which others have been derived.
It’s mainly on the major Linux distros and the kernel, as well as the development of Unix. It’s a nice timeline to check […]

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September 5th, 2007

Why get a live cd?

There are people who are addicted to Linux live cd testing. Everytime there’s a new release, they would download it and run it on their computers. For newbies, the live cd is a powerful tool:

It would show you if your hardware works with that particular set of hardware.
It would show you the […]

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September 5th, 2007

Twincling and RockHopper

Twincling has a project called RockHopper. The goal is to make something useful for the small and medium businesses in India. The RockHopper Project is targeted for use on 64-bit AMD multi-core processor family and non-Intel chipset boards. They derived it from the Linux kernel and other Open Source software libraries. […]

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September 3rd, 2007

Reading scanned comic books via Comix

Sometimes people think that they won’t be able to do some fun things anymore once they switch to Linux. My sister and I like reading scanlations of Japanese manga. They’re available as archived files with such extensions: .zip, .rar, .cbr, .cbt and also .cbz. I looked for a comic reader in the […]

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