The Kubuntu team announced on Saturday (February 21) the second maintenance release of Kubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron), which is supported with security fixes and maintenance updates until October 2009. Kubuntu 8.04.2 brings to its dedicated users a lot of security updates and corrections (over 200), all with a single goal: to keep Kubuntu 8.04 a stable and reliable Linux distribution!
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Unix And Linux Cartoon Roundup
A whole lot more comics for your weekend enjoyment
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More Linux and Unix Comics: Adam@home
Enough with the reading already. These books have pictures ;)
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Installing software on Linux Monday: The repository is your new best friend
Our word for the day this fine Linux President's Day Monday is “repository.” I admit, it was one of those alien words that buffaloed me when I first started learning. Linux geeks, like any group of insiders, throw around terms that are incomprehensible to outsiders, but it turns out the concept is really easy.
Read more »The Follow-Up: Absorption Of Knowledge In The Computer Age
This title is so similar to its predecessor, it will probably never get indexed ;)
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Cluster Server Failover Testing On Linux And Unix
Some times work can be a real kick in the nodes ;)
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Benchmark Your Computer with Debian 5 Lenny
Ever want to know how your computer stacks up against other computers? Are you running a decent machine or are you seriously underpowered? Debian 5 Lenny provides an easy way to start making some comparisons.
Read more »Linux layout for Windows users
For the Windows users I will attempt to describe a comparison of where files are stored on a Linux system. This wont be exact equivelents because the operating systems are very different, but they are an approximation.
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Bash tricks I: (very) Repetitive tasks
I'll create a series (don't even know the number of items in the series) where I share with my loyal readers (in mathematical terms, that's an empty set) some handy tricks I've found when working with bash. Probably some of the tricks won't be the most efficient way to carry something out... but I can attest that, at the very least, they do work.
Read more »More Valentine's ASCII Art For Linux And Unix
More joy in pictorial form to keep the weekend HAPPY :)
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What can Linux do for you?
As the Linux name has been filtering down from the dizzying heights of geekdom to the general mind share. I am sure that many people have been wondering exactly what this Linux thing is and what can it do for them.
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50 Must-Have Firefox Extensions for e-Learning & Researching
Are you an e-Learner or a researcher? No matter if you are learning or working online or on campus, the following Firefox extensions can make your life easier.
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Why "open source" is not "free software"
Choosing to release a piece of software under the terms of a free software license is an important step through which many programmers and writers first approach the free software community. However, the myriad of licenses available can sometimes confuse and disorient the user, sometimes making this first step much harder than it should be. Let's try and make things clearer.
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Learn to Develop Responsive Multi-Threaded Applications in C# with New Book
A new book from Packt on Threaded Programming that acts as a guide to building scalable, high performance applications using parallel programming with C# has been published. Written by Gastón C. Hillar, C# 2008 and 2005 Threaded Programming: Beginner's Guide will help users develop applications that run several tasks, and manage parallelized processes and threads.
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