Archive for October, 2008

Tip: Bash Tips: Speedy Keyboard Shortcuts

Friday, October 31st, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

The Bash shell is famous for having more great features and shortcuts than we can ever learn. Juliet Kemp shares some shortcuts to speed up common tasks. Read more..

Fedora 7 to 10 Benchmarks

Friday, October 31st, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Earlier this week we published benchmarks of all Ubuntu releases from 7.04 to the release candidate and had found the performance degraded with time, at least with the test system ... Read more..

Ubuntu Open Week for Jaunty. Rock On.

Friday, October 31st, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

jonobacon@home: "Folks, we are really pleased to announce...Ubuntu Open Week! Ubuntu Open Week is a week of IRC tuition and Q+A sessions all about getting involved in the rock-and-roll world that ... Read more..

Desktop Linux Tidal Wave Alert

Friday, October 31st, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Cyber Cynic: "In 2009, more Linux-powered desktops will sell then will Windows-powered ones. Sounds crazy doesn't it? Think again." Read more..

How to install KDE 4 on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex

Friday, October 31st, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Ubuntu, the most popular distribution, is using by default Gnome 2.24 as its Desktop Environment (DE). However this isn't the only DE available for Linux. Another very popular DE used ... Read more..

Update Twitter and FriendFeed From the Linux Command Line

Friday, October 31st, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

IBM Developerworks: "Learn how to use GNU Wget and cURL to send status updates to Twitter and FriendFeed without the use of a Twitter desktop application, and follow feeds from ... Read more..

11 Simple Ways To Recover Your Screen on Linux and Unix

Friday, October 31st, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

More ways to recover your Linux or Unix terminal session, with reader contributions! If you're one of the many readers who submit a comment now and again (and even if ... Read more..

Debian patches OpenOffice

Friday, October 31st, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Upon seeing 17 software updates waiting for me on my Debian Etch box this morning, I hurried over to the Debian security site and learned that the Debian security team ... Read more..

Automatic And Up-To-Date Fedora 9 Installations With Kickstart And Novi

Friday, October 31st, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

HowtoForge: "The problem with Kickstart is that it usually uses the distribution's packages from the time the distribution was released, i.e., it does not consider updates which means you would ... Read more..

Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex Review

Thursday, October 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Ubuntu's latest desktop release get's stacked up and reviewed major feature by major feature. How does it compare to it's competition? Read on! Read more..

Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Installation Guide

Thursday, October 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Ubuntu 8.10 (codename Intrepid Ibex) has been released! For those who don't know anything about it, Ubuntu is the most popular and widespread Linux distribution now used. No surprise Ubuntu ... Read more..

Ubuntu Brings the BBC to Linux

Thursday, October 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Linux Today Blog: "But thanks to FOSS (as always) there is a silver ray in the gloom-- Ubuntu 8.10 includes the Totem BBC Plugin:" Read more..

gPodder 0.13.1 (Default branch)

Thursday, October 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

gPodder is a Podcast receiver/catcher written in Python and pyGTK. It manages podcast feeds for you, and automatically downloads all podcasts from as many feeds as you like. If you ... Read more..

Mandriva: Subject: [Security Announce] [ MDVA-2008:163 ] mdkonline

Thursday, October 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

LinuxSecurity.com: This update ensures that the distribution upgrade notification is not detected in incorrect cases, and ensures that a distribution upgrade is only suggested after all security updates have been ... Read more..

Mandriva: Subject: [Security Announce] [ MDVA-2008:162 ] openoffice.org

Thursday, October 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

LinuxSecurity.com: This update provides a new upstream version of OpenOffice.org - 2.4.1.10. It also corrects the following bugs: Under 2.4 versions of OpenOffice.org, the Orientation option was removed from ... Read more..