Archive for November, 2008

Roundup of Vim Articles

Sunday, November 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Here are Six articles on Vim which have been widely read by the visitors to this blog. These articles on Vim will surely motivate you to try out this powerful ... Read more..

LXer Weekly Roundup for 30-Nov-2008

Sunday, November 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

LXer Feature: 30-Nov-2008Early in the week there was an article about some deadly Linux commands and I have to admit I personally wouldn't try any of them, except on ... Read more..

Back Up/Restore Hard Drives And Partitions With CloneZilla Live

Sunday, November 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

This tutorial shows how you can back up and restore hard drives and partitions with CloneZilla Live. CloneZilla Live is a Linux Live-CD that you insert into your computer; it ... Read more..

AGPL and Debian

Sunday, November 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Recently, the Ftpmaster and -team, have been asked about an opinion about the AGPL in Debian. The short summary is: They think that works licensed under the AGPL can go ... Read more..

Linux Foundation Says All Major Distros Are IPv6 Compliant - Slashdot

Sunday, November 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Linux Foundation Says All Major Distros Are IPv6 CompliantSlashdot - 2 hours agoruphus13 points out news from the Linux Foundation, which announced that all major Linux distributions meet certification requirements for ... Read more..

10 mistakes new Linux administrators make

Sunday, November 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

If you’re new to Linux, a few common mistakes are likely to get you into trouble. Learn about them up front so you can avoid major problems as you become ... Read more..

Gnome Music Player Client 0.17.0-beta1 (Default branch)

Sunday, November 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Gnome Music Player Client (GMPC) is a front end for the Music Player Daemon. It's focused on speed and ease of use. Features are added through plugins. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Bugfixes, ... Read more..

The State Of The Tux3 File-System

Sunday, November 30th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Btrfs has received much of the limelight on Linux when talking about file-systems since it promises to compete with Sun's ZFS file-system and introduce several features not found in the ... Read more..

Creating your perfect Linux system.

Saturday, November 29th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

If you are looking for step by step instructions to creating your perfect Linux system then stop reading now. How can I know what your perfect system is? All I ... Read more..

What to Expect From Linux as a New User

Saturday, November 29th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

When you spend one half of your life using Windows, switching to Linux can be a little bit confusing at first. Just like any other new thing in your life, ... Read more..

New BlockBuster VOD box runs Linux

Saturday, November 29th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

DeviceGuru: "In a better-late-than-never move, Blockbuster has introduced a video-on-demand (VOD) service accompanied by a "free" set-top box (STB). Like TiVo, Roku's Netflix box, and many other modern Internet-enabled A/V ... Read more..

This Week in Open Source: Fedora 10, Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha

Saturday, November 29th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

This was a good week for distro releases—Fedora 10 finally landed and Ubuntu 9.04 reached alpha status. It was also a busy week for SCO. The dying UNIX vendor received ... Read more..

VMware 6.5.1 (Workstation branch)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

VMware allows you to run 'virtual machines' inside a Linux host. It is not an emulator. It provides a virtual computer within the host which can boot whichever OS you ... Read more..

Picasa 3: Great Linux photo software

Saturday, November 29th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

I have a confession to make. There's no software on earth I can't make dance and sing... except for photography programs. Whether it's Adobe Photoshop CS4 on a Mac or ... Read more..

aTunes 1.11.0 (Default branch)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

aTunes is a full-featured audio player and organizer, with some ripping and encoding tools included. It supports MP3, Ogg, WMA, WAV, FLAC, and MP4. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Support for tag editing was ... Read more..