GNU Midnight Commander (MC), Vifm and Last File Manager (Lfm) are 3 visual file manager applications for the Linux console. All of these 3 applications will remind you of Norton Commander, but each has something special.
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Opera launches first open source project
The browser maker moves the Dragonfly debugging toolkit to publicly hosted servers, setting up the BSD-licensed software as an open project.
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Linux Kernel 2.6.33 Released
This version features Nouveau (a reverse-engineered driver for Nvidia graphic cards), Nintendo Wii and Gamecube support, DRDB (Distributed Replicated Block Device), a security extension for TCP called "cookie transactions", a syscall for batching recvmsg() calls, several new perf subcommands (perf probe, perf bench, perf kmem, perf diff)...
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The State of The X.Org Foundation 2010
Along with announcing the X.Org Foundation board of director results, Bart Massey also issued the 2010 State of the X.Org Foundation report.
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EXT3, EXT4, Btrfs Ubuntu Netbook Benchmarks
We received a request from Canonical to look at the EXT3 performance. We have done just that.
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What’s the difference between a Hub, a Switch and a Router?
Hubs, switches, and routers are all devices that let you connect from one computers to other computers, networked devices, or to other networks.
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Policy Banks with Postfix
Amavisd-new provides Policy Banks that allow you to manage messages based on the client or sender. For example if you wanted senders to be able to send to email lists without using the server resources for scanning with Spamassassin and ClamAv for these outgoing messages you could create a Policy Bank
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Build a NIS Client
The NIS Server-Client relationship requires that you set up a client in order to work with the NIS server. This will enable you to login on the client from a user and password located on the database of the NIS server. The client machine will first look in the /etc/passwd file and then check the database on the NIS server.
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Set Your Desktop Free, With Nouveau's 3D
The nouveau project has done it! Finally, an open source 3D driver for NVIDIA video cards has arrived and will ship with Fedora 13. Let's take a look (including a few benchmarks).
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Benchmarks Of Nouveau's Gallium3D Driver
As we shared a few days ago, Fedora 13 will provide OpenGL acceleration support for NVIDIA graphics cards via the Nouveau driver when installing the Mesa DRI experimental drivers package. There is finally 3D acceleration for NVIDIA graphics cards using an open-source driver on Linux without having to depend upon NVIDIA's official binary driver.
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I’ve been busy making some websites and paid 5 dollars for some L.A.M.P hosting, but after being very frustrated by the server not functioning properly I decided I would get up my own server. I was deciding between FreeBSD, CentOS or ArchLinux.
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NVIDIA Has Gallium3D Support In Fedora 13
While it's exciting to have kernel mode-setting, RandR, and EXA / X-Video acceleration for NVIDIA hardware in an open-source driver that is reliable since the mainlining of its DRM code and its adoption in Ubuntu 10.04 and other distributions, Fedora has already employed Nouveau support to various extents in their recent releases.
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Cross platform doesn’t exists
When you write code in Python you can be almost sure your code will run on different operating systems. I say almost sure, not completely sure, because some of the libraries and packages you are using can have different behaviors on different systems.
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Linux super-duper admin tools: OProfile
A few weeks ago, we've learned about strace, a simple yet powerful system debugging tool that allows you to trace the system calls during the execution of a process, allowing you to solve many problems quickly and efficiently. It's time to step up the geeky fun a notch and learn about OProfile.
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5 things that make Drupal different from all the other CMSs
There are lots of content management systems out there. Most of which are open source and normally get the job done. However, Drupal stands out amongst them for a host of reasons. Here are five.
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