May 16th, 2008
For some people they don’t really think about what OS is installed in their computers because they’re sure that when they work in a company and they’re given a machine, it will work properly.
However, if you’re one of the decision makers of the company, you will think about this problem carefully. Especially if you’re […]
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May 14th, 2008
Fedora 9 has the following features:
FreeIPA - for managing identities and authentication
support for resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitions during install
support for creating and installing to encrypted file systems
unified installer of packages via PackageKit
Desktop environments such as GNOME 2.22 and KDE4 are available so you could choose either.
I guess that for people who are dual-booting […]
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May 14th, 2008
Why would anyone bother with making Linux from scratch? With all these distros with almost everything you need, people still choose to build Linux from source. There are people who say that they get a more optimized system that way. Others want it because of the control that they have over the […]
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May 13th, 2008
Sometimes people forget things including people they love or interact with on a regular basis. Well, this could happen to anyone including our parents. Reside@Home’s goal is to let our loved ones stay in our homes and let us have a way of communicating via a touch panel screen and the Internet.
Features for […]
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May 13th, 2008
If you’ve been wondering how to install applications without having internet access, I came across the tutorial that shows you how. But I think that you might need to ask someone to help you out while following the instructions. Some of it could be confusing because you need to use two machines to perform […]
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May 10th, 2008
If you love first-person shooter games, Warsow just might be the thing for you. It is based on the novel “Chasseur de bots” which is a French E-novel. (You could read it in English here.)
Those familiar with the gameplay of Quake, you might enjoy Warsow. You can do various kinds of jumps […]
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May 8th, 2008
By default, most of the distros I’ve tried have bash or the Bourne again shell installed in them. Anyhow I was reading an article on Linux.com about korn shell and it seems like a good introductory material for us who don’t have a clue about it.
Things I took away from the article:
Korn shell has more […]
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May 8th, 2008
A link to the LXDE site was on del.icio.us and I just had to click it because in this day and age, I sometimes get tired of eye candy. I like pretty desktop environments, surely but there are times when I just need to sit back and relax with simple and straightforward user interfaces. […]
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May 7th, 2008
If you love games so much, why not keep an eye on Pandora? It’s the size of a DS but it has a QWERTY keyboard and gaming buttons. It will have a customized Debian-based Linux distro and so you could expect emulators to work on it as well as browsers.
It’s exciting because you […]
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May 7th, 2008
Disclaimer: I don’t have an iPod but some of you might have one. Or you might come across fellow new Linux users who want to ask you about this topic.
HowToForge has a detailed guide on managing your iPod with gtkPod.
It tells you how to do the following:
Configure gtkPod and that you’d have to […]
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