Archive for December, 2008

The Xubuntu Difference

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

"Xubuntu is part of the Ubuntu family of Linux distributions, and is based on Debian, one of the most widely acclaimed, technologically advanced, and well-supported distributions. Read more..

Mastering SSH: Connecting, Executing Remote Commands and Using Authorized Keys

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Enterprise IT Planet: "The ssh command line utility is a staple for people who work on remote systems. ssh stands for "secure shell," so as you may expect one of ... Read more..

The Future of Compiz In Question

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Rather than announcing a road-map for 2009 or sharing all of the accomplishments this year that were made within the Compiz development community, Kristian Lyngstol has shared some grave concerns ... Read more..

Ubuntu Ultimate 2.0 : Ubuntu 8.10 + Well Customized GNOME + Multimedia Codecs + KDE Goodies

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

After Ubuntu gained popularity, some distributions switched to Ubuntu as their base distribution. Also many new Ubuntu based distributions started to appear. Most of these can be categorized based on ... Read more..

Torvalds’ gift for the Linux community… The new Kernel 2.6.28

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Actually, it was on the 25th of December. Linus Torvalds played Santa Claus and released a gift for all Linux users. It's the New Kernel. Let's take a closer look ... Read more..

Installing RPM Packages on Ubuntu

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Tech Source From Bohol: "If you happen to have .rpm file package that you would like to install on your Ubuntu machine, you will have to convert that file to ... Read more..

Orinoco WaveLAN Silver PCMCIA card works in Power Mac G4/466 with Debian Etch

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Click: "I had no expectation that it would work, but I decided to shove my trusty Orinoco WaveLAN Silver PCMCIA 802.11b wireless networking card into the meant-for-Airport-only slot in my ... Read more..

2008 – Year in Review, Part 2

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

It's really been quite a year for my current favorite types of development (Rich Internet Apps, General Web, and Mobile Dev). There have been all sorts of new APIs, libraries, ... Read more..

Dell Sells Ubuntu Boxes That Cannot Run Ubuntu

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

bitsenbloc: "However, when opening the box I found something suspicious, the DVD provided by Dell was not a standard Ubuntu, but a version that contains a + after the number ... Read more..

2008 – Year in Review, Part 1

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

It's really been quite a year for my current favorite types of development (Rich Internet Apps, General Web, and Mobile Dev). There have been all sorts of new APIs, libraries, ... Read more..

Finding Your Yahoo Search Index Rank From The Unix Or Linux CLI

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 Posted in Community | No Comments »

The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today we're going to continue in our ongoing quest to rank highly in search engine results while simultaneously messing with them a lot ;) Previously, ... Read more..

Debian contributor killed in car accident

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

The Debian Project has lost an active member of its community. Thiemo Seufer died on December 26th in a tragic car accident.Thiemo was involved in Debian in many ways. He ... Read more..

17 Telecommuting Pet Peeves

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

CIO: "Telecommuting is great. I've been doing it full time for most of 20 years. But it isn't perfect. Working at home has its own set of irritations, some of ... Read more..

Seven Most Influential GNU/Linux Distributions

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

LinuxPlanet Classics: Bruce Byfield reviews his choices for the top general-purpose Linux distributions, and their strengths and weaknesses. Read more..

Installing Yellow Dog Linux 6.1 on PS3

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

Softpedia: "Yellow Dog Linux 6.1 operating system for SONY's PlayStation 3, Apple PowerPC G4/G5, IBM Power Systems and YDL PowerStation was officially released by Fixstars on November 19th, 2008. Yellow ... Read more..