Archive for September, 2008

Tutorial: Four Easy Fun Useful Things You Can Do With Linux

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

In this ENP classic, learn how to colorize and test your Bash prompt, run your own local timeserver, deliver customized MOTDs that change, and create elegant ASCII art. Carla Schroder ... Read more..

WiMax Is Finally Coming — Here’s How It Performs

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

GMGruman writes "Carriers have promised WiMax networks for years. But will they deliver the goods, or be slow like many early 3G networks or patchy in coverage like the metro ... Read more..

Omega 10 Desktop Linux

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

OSNews: "The Omega 10 Beta release is roughly equivalent to the Fedora 10 Beta to be released tomorrow, but integrates multimedia support not found in Fedora." Read more..

Save a Web Page for Later With Read It Later Extension

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Linux.com: "At first sight, the Read It Later (RIL) extension looks redundant -- after all, you can use Firefox's own bookmarking functionality to save Web pages for later reading. But ... Read more..

Live DVD for Linux Games

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

LinuxHaxor: "lg-live is a live Linux DVD pre-installed with some of the top linux games out there. You just boot from your dvd, select your game and start playing." Read more..

I was about to praise Ubuntu …

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

I still might be in a position to heap praise upon Ubuntu 8.04 for its performance on the $0 Laptop (Gateway Solo 1450) since I reinstalled it a couple of ... Read more..

Mandriva Linux Security Update Advisory - pam_mount ( MDVSA-2008:20) - Help Net Security

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Mandriva Linux Security Update Advisory - pam_mount ( MDVSA-2008:20)Help Net Security, Croatia - 5 hours agoUpdated Packages: Mandriva Linux 2007.1: dabe7e010c95879959959e4804ae83cb 2007.1/i586/pam_mount-0.17-1.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm b237206c3e85a63b0e733a7db02fcba1 ... Read more..

Editorial: Reviewing Linux Mandrake 8.x

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

I keep reading review after review after review of the current crop of linux distributions. Read more..

Gentoo Formulates New Release Strategy

Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

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Off the wire: Searching for presidential campaign videos can bring malware

Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Webroot has detected malicious software being propagated as campaign videos for John McCain and Barack Obama. Attackers are taking advantage of unsuspecting users during the U.S. Presidential election... Read more..

How to install Webmin on Debian 3 or 4 using Debian (.deb) Packages

Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Read this article to learn how to install Webmin on Debian 3 or 4 using Debian (.deb) Packages Read more..

Java Sound & Music Software for Linux, Part 3

Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

With this installment I complete my survey of Java-based sound and music applications that run under Linux. Again I've focused mainly on production software. read more ... Read more..

LXer Weekly Roundup for 28-Sept-2008

Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

LXer Feature: 28-Sept-2008In this weeks Roundup we have Microsoft all over the place with articles on the advertising campaign and how Stanford and Harvard are teaching MS business tactics. ... Read more..

Install open-vm-tools on Debian 4.0 (Etch)

Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

VMware Inc. released an OpenSource version of their VMware-Tools, called open-vm-tools. While they’re quite easy to install on Gentoo (emerge open-vm-tools), it’s not that easy having them installed on a ... Read more..

21 of the Best Free Linux Financial Software

Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Linux Links: "This article selects quality software that help individuals keep track of stock market movements, analyse the markets, and identify stock worth buying. In this article, we also feature the ... Read more..