Archive for June, 2008

Horny for Ubuntu 8.10: first look at Intrepid Ibex

Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

The first alpha release of Ubuntu 8.10, codenamed Intrepid Ibex, was made available on Saturday. This preliminary Intrepid prerelease includes updated packages, a new version of the Linux kernel, and ... Read more..

Linux?s dirty little secret - ZDNet

Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Linux?s dirty little secretZDNet - 3 hours agoOK, so over the past few months I?ve grown from being a Linux skeptic into being quite a Linux fan. I?ve still got lots ... Read more..

Ten Fantastic Keyboard Shortcuts in OpenOffice.org

Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Free Software Magazine: "A lot of software users I meet seem to feel they are not using their software as efficiently as they could. If that includes you, then listen ... Read more..

ATI Radeon HD 4850 Linux Performance

Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Phoronix: "Last week we exclusively shared the steps AMD was taking to make an evolutionary leap in Linux support with same-day support for their brand-new Radeon HD 4800 series, Linux ... Read more..

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #97

Sunday, June 29th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 96 for the weeks June 22nd - June 28th, 2008 is now available. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu 8.04.1 freeze proposed, Intrepid Alpha 1 ... Read more..

Packing It In: The Evolution of Online Video and Audio Tech, Part 2

Sunday, June 29th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

The business of standardizing compression formats for audio and video files on the Internet is largely dominated by the big companies -- Adobe, Microsoft, etc. Some in the open source ... Read more..

Tooling Around With Ajax

Sunday, June 29th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Social networks are peppering the Internet with Facebook-like interactive features. Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is fast becoming the defacto programming tool for Web developers. But by itself, Ajax is ... Read more..

The Perfect Desktop - OpenSUSE 11 (GNOME)

Sunday, June 29th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

This tutorial shows how you can set up an OpenSUSE 11 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need ... Read more..

ISO Master 1.3.2 (Default branch)

Sunday, June 29th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

ISO Master is an easy to use GUI CD image editor for Linux, BSD, and Windows. Basically, you can use this program to extract files from an ISO, add files ... Read more..

Directory Synchronize 1.0b2 (Default branch)

Sunday, June 29th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Directory Synchronize is a powerful, easy-to-configure tool to synchronize the contents of one directory with another. It can compare files by various attributes, such as size or modified-date. It can ... Read more..

fireflix 0.0.6.2 (Default branch)

Sunday, June 29th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Fireflicks is a Firefox extension to upload and manage photos on flickr.com. License: MIT/X Consortium License Changes: This release implements Firefox 3 compatibility. Read more..

Ask Linux.com: Specialty distros, startup scripts, and a whole new forum

Saturday, June 28th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

In this week's junket through the latest and greatest from the Linux.com forums, we look at Linux distributions for security testing, gaming, and the visually impaired, writing your own startup ... Read more..

Ten sticking points for new Ubuntu users

Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

With Ubuntu, Canonical has had notable success in convincing people to switch from other platforms, but potential Ubuntu users are still running into trouble in several areas. Having spent some ... Read more..

How To Set Up DHCP Failover On Centos 5.1

Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

This tutorial will walk you through setting up DHCP failover on CentOS 5.1 using the default ISC dhcp server, this can easily be adapted to any other Linux distro out ... Read more..

Firefox 3 Already Rules the Roost

Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Barence writes in with a data point on Firefox 3 adoption: it's been available for 10 days, and already one site is seeing 55% of its Firefox-using visitors on version ... Read more..

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