Archive for May, 2006

PCLinuxOS Manuals available for download

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006 Posted in Distributions | No Comments »

Three user manuals have been put together from the PCLinuxOS Wiki, and the project has been published on the net by LexNL (Alex Belgraver) and Teacher (Julia Ray). Both pdf ... Read more..

Backing Up and Restoring Using the cpio Command in Linux and Unix

Friday, May 26th, 2006 Posted in Books, Fedora Core, How-Tos, Libranet, Linspire, Lycoris, Mandrake, Simply Mepis, SuSE, Ubuntu, Xandros, Yoper | No Comments »

The cpio command is one of the most commonly used Linux back up tools. The cpio command has two unusual features Unlike tar , in which the files to back up ... Read more..

SUSE 10.1…A DARN FINE DISTRO!!!

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006 Posted in Books, Desktop, Installation, SuSE | No Comments »

Everyone is aware of my love for SUSE. First Linux distro, etc., etc., etc. SUSE 10.0 has been a solid, hardworking distribution since its release and truthfully, I ... Read more..

Open Source Desktop Apps Remotely

Saturday, May 20th, 2006 Posted in Desktop | No Comments »

There is a new internet service that provides open source application remotely. It is called ubikon.com. Here you may create account, log in and use many Linux desktop applications like OpenOffice, Firefox, KDE ... Read more..

Burning or Writing DVDs Under Debian

Thursday, May 18th, 2006 Posted in How-Tos | No Comments »

If you want to burn DVD's in debian you need to install the "dvd+rw-tools" package. dvd+rw-tools makes it possible to burn DVD images created by dvdauthor or mkisofs to DVD+R, DVD+RW, ... Read more..

SIMPLY MEPIS BETA 2

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006 Posted in Books, Desktop, Installation, Simply Mepis | No Comments »

Remember way back in April when I wrote about Simply Mepis in Alpha form? At that time, I noted how impressed I was with what Warren had done in ... Read more..

TUX …THE MAGAZINE. Great Read!

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006 Posted in Books, Command Line, Desktop, Installation, Questions | No Comments »

New to Linux? Intermediate user? Need good information that is not buried in the middle of a 1200 page text? No matter how I say this it ... Read more..