Linux may well be one of the most stable and reliable operating systems out there, but you should still plan for failure. Linux still depends on PC hardware and a steady power supply to be able to function properly. If you are administering Linux servers then this would be a no brainer, but even desktop users should bear it in mind.
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Dreamlinux 3.5 Review - Desktop Emphasis
I have been distro hopping a lot in recent times. I was testing a lot of the less known Linuxes but never came across one that had no big problem. Of course, Dreamlinux is a fairly popular Linux distro.
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Ubuntu Firefox Themes
I've downloaded some great themes for Firefox. Unfortunately not all of them works the way they should. The most common problem is disappearing menu text when mouse pointer hover above it.
You see not themes are made for specific edition and version of Firefox. Not all Firefox created equally I suppose. So here's 3 (for now) Firefox themes that I love to use (tested on Linux Firefox 3.0.6)
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Vacation Message for Postfix
The vacation feature allows you to configure a message that will be returned to the sender when you are out of the office. If you are using a CentOS version you will not find vacation in any repositories so you will have to compile it, which is not too difficult.
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Epiphany is my new web browser, goodbye Firefox
For a while I ignored it largely because Firefox *does* work, but it’s been quite obvious for a while that Linux is an afterthought for them. Debian fixed up a lot of the more patently Windows-centric crap including the broken Extensions manager. Their reward?
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Where SLED/SLES 11 Fails
Early reviewers of the latest SUSE release are not entirely satisfied
SLED and SLES 11 have been released. Selected journalists appear to have received copies of it in advance, specifically for reviewing purposes. What did they think? Let's find out.
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Review : Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope whats new in it?
Ubuntu Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope final release on April 23rd, 2009. whats new in it? There is some revolutionary changes. Introducing Ext4 Filesystem, Cloud computing etc in it.
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I just had an Epiphany
Everybody’s talking browser wars again. IE8 is out, which doesn’t matter much to Linux users, and Chrome for Linux is getting closer to being usable, which does. Webkit browsers seem to be the next big thing, even though none of them are really available yet, safe for Safari. Everything else is still in alpha/beta. Even though, people are predicting the demise of Firefox already.
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Linux Puzzle Games
There are Linux games for every taste: first person shooters, board and arcade games. But if you prefer to train your intellectual skills instead of blasting monsters or conquering the world, there are a few high-quality puzzle games, too!
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Distributions: The big and the small
While the community distributions Fedora and Ubuntu, as well as Mandriva, prepare for their spring releases, Novell has been busy completing final adjustments to SUSE Linux Enterprise. Smaller Linux distributions are also doing some spring cleaning and publishing updated versions.
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Xmonad + GNOME on Debian Lenny
I've been interested in using a tiling window manager for some time. Although I have had dwm, awesome and xmonad installed on my laptop, I've never spent more than a couple of hours on them.
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Getting Rid of Nasty Flash Cookies on Linux
Flash cookies are the secret nasties of using the Flash player on any platform. These are somewhat like the ordinary HTTP cookies that Web sites infest on our systems. Some HTTP cookies have useful purpose, but the majority of HTTP cookies are tracking cookies.
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KDE With All the Productivity Tools You’ll Ever Need
There’s no question computers make our lives easier, especially with all the productivity tools available today. Let’s take a look at how some of these apps can help you streamline your work and stay organized while you get things done.
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Review: Battle for Wesnoth 1.6
After more than a year of constant development, The Battle for Wesnoth 1.6 was put out on March 22. This release comes with new graphics and unit portraits, a new campaign, called 'Legend of Wesmere', the possibility to log into the multiplayer with the forum account, and many, many other improvements.
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Debian Lenny comes with Wine 1.0.1 included in the repositories, which is the stable release of Wine, but it is also a little outdated. Here are a few easy steps for compiling and installing the latest Wine release from source in Debian Lenny. This tutorial should work for the latest Wine release (at the time of writing, the last release is 1.1.17).
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