You've heard all of the advantages that HTML5 brings to your web experience, but how far away are we from enjoying the benefits of HTML5? With several browsers already supporting HTML5 video, I selected Google Chromium which was available for my Ubuntu 10.04 desktop and gave it a try.
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"The other day I decided to give a try at Funtoo (for those that do not know it yet, a variant of Gentoo). I am very impressed with the improvements that Daniel Robbins has done so far..." —— See also: In 2 days: stable toolchain upgrade ——
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Kobby: Collaborative Text Editor
Kobby is a tool that allows users to to collaborate on text files. The collaborative text editor is a really great tool for a lot of situations. Instead of passing documents (or emails) back and forth to get your work done, collaborate in real time.
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Using The Debian Alternatives System
There are several cases where two packages provide two different versions of a program, both of which provide the same core functionality.
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dstat - Versatile resource statistics tool for Ubuntu / Debian Linux
Dstat is a versatile replacement for vmstat, nfsstat, iostat, netstat and ifstat.
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Cron+Diff+Wget: A script to watch for changes in a webpage
A few months ago I wanted to keep track of changes on a webpage... and wrote a script to do so. Later I discovered there were navigator plugins that did exactly that... But the fun in writing your own script is far greater than an anonymous script someone did.
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Command Line Basics: View Text With less
I've shown previously how to use the more command to view text output. Today I'll show how to do the same thing with the less command. You can run the command simply by opening a terminal window and entering...
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Run Your Own Web Server Using Linux & Apache - Free 191 Page Preview
Learn about everything you'll need to build and maintain your Linux servers, and to deploy Web applications to them.
Whether you're planning on running Linux at home, or on a leased Web Server,
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sed (stream editor) to colorise script output
A sample on how to use the standard UNIX tool 'sed' to use colour in terminal output.
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How to:Speed up ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx boot time with profiling
Ubuntu reached the 10 second boot time with Lucid Lynx. what if your system isn’t quite reaching that point?
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Free: A Newbie's Getting Started Guide to Linux
Like many things, venturing off into a completely unknown world can seem rather scary, and also be pretty difficult in the beginning. It's while adapting to the unknown, that one needs a guiding, and caring hand. This guide will tell you all you need to know in 20 illustrated pages, helping you to take your first steps
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Get your free E-Book: The GNU/Linux Advanced Administration
In this ebook "The GNU/Linux Operating System", the main contents are related with system administration. You will learn how to install and configure several computer services, and how to optimize and synchronize the resources using GNU/Linux.
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Pino - GNOME client for Twitter
Pino is a simple, fast and easy to use twitter/identi.ca client with a nice user interface
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Tutorial on Usage of Tar utility in Ubuntu/Debian/Mandriva/Fedora/OpenSuse Linux
A linux power user must know about the file compression utility tar. tar is used to store and extract files from and to an archive file. Mainly source codes distributed in tar format. Here some examples of tar usage
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Monitor system Status with saidar in ubuntu / debian Linux
saidar is a text based tool for viewing the system statistics available through libstatgrab. Statistics include CPU, processes, load, memory, swap, network I/O, disk I/O, and file system information.
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