Archive for February, 2009

Things You Need To Know To Become An Apt Guru

Saturday, February 28th, 2009 Posted in Community | No Comments »

MakeTechEasier: "Quite possibly the most distinguishing feature of Debian-based Linux distributions (such as Ubuntu, Mepis, Knoppix, etc) is their package system - APT. Also known as the Advanced Package Tool, ... Read more..

Mepis 8.0 Desktop – A Debian Joyride

Saturday, February 28th, 2009 Posted in Community | No Comments »

This time around I tried the daddy of many desktops, Debian Lenny, and compared it with Mepis 8.0 on my notebook. I am pleased how Debian has made itself easy ... Read more..

Novell puts Linux on sale as earnings disappoint

Saturday, February 28th, 2009 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Novell's $340 million lifeline from Microsoft appears to be losing its potency. Although Microsoft originally gifted Novell $240 million to help fight Red Hat, and later added another $100 million ... Read more..

Sharing Files in Linux and Understanding Pathnames

Saturday, February 28th, 2009 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Akkana Peck has shown us how pathnames work, the difference between /home and home, and using ls to see the contents of a directory. Today we're going to go all ... Read more..

The Linux Foundation Plans Defense on TomTom Litigation

Saturday, February 28th, 2009 Posted in Community | No Comments »

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You Want A Beautiful OS? Try Elive

Saturday, February 28th, 2009 Posted in Community | No Comments »

What do you get when you put a stable operating system, an innovative desktop manager and plenty of eye candies together? You get nothing short of a beautiful and functional ... Read more..

Seven Must-Have Firefox Security Add-Ons

Saturday, February 28th, 2009 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Mobile workers are especially vulnerable because they operate outside corporate security systems, and often return home to unload nasties into the company network. Paul Rubens finds seven excellent Firefox plugins ... Read more..

First impressions of the Neuros Link

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Community | No Comments »

DeviceGuru: "Having recently constructed the BoxeeBox, I naturally was eager to check out Neuros Technology's somewhat similar IP-TV set-top box. Though currently at a "gamma" release, the Neuros "Link" shows ... Read more..

Distro Review: Sabayon 4.0

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Today?s candidate is the latest release of a distro I first looked at some time ago, Sabayon. I?ve had mixed feelings about it in the past, I found 2.2 Professional ... Read more..

Security advisories for Friday

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Mandriva has updated phpmyadmin (cross-site scripting/request forgery), wireshark (multiple vulnerabilities). Ubuntu has updated kdepim, kmail (execution of arbitrary code). ... Read more..

Xfce 4.6 released

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Community | No Comments »

The announcement has gone out for the Xfce 4.6 release. "Xfce 4.6 features a new configuration backend, a new settings manager, a brand new session ... Read more..

PC/OS 2009v2 released

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Community | No Comments »

PC/OS: "It's the first Linux based distribution that provides ease of use out of the box. It provides all multimedia codecs out of the box, an easy to use and ... Read more..

How To: Debian Minimal Installation

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Just yesterday though I found out that it?s possible to easily install a minimalist Debian setup with the fluxbox WM. In fact, this ?how to? will be over before you ... Read more..

CrossOver Games 7.2.0 Released

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Community | No Comments »

It has been a number of months since CrossOver Games was last updated, but this morning CodeWeavers has issued a new update for this software based upon WINE that allows ... Read more..

Debian 5.0 Continues Strong Linux Tradition – eWeek

Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Community | No Comments »

Debian 5.0 Continues Strong Linux TraditioneWeek,  NYBy Jason Brooks Version 5 of the Debian GNU/Linux open-source operating system offers the same top management tools and processor support that previous ... Read more..