This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on an Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) desktop with the classic GNOME interface, i.e., no Unity (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8200 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop.
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command-line Functions
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Functions may be defined at the command-line and then used as many times as needed as long as a new shell is not started. This feature of the Bash shell can be a handy tool if you are repeatedly performing the same command or series of commands.
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Burn CD, DVD and Blu-Ray in Ubuntu Linux using Silicon Empire
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Silicon Empire is an application for GNU / Linux that lets you record and manage optical discs such as CD, DVD and Blu-Ray.
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How to dual-boot Fedora 15 and Windows 7
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Previous tutorials published on this website about dual-booting Fedora and Windows 7 have shown how to do it by creating partitions for Fedora manually, either on an existing or a new installation of Windows 7. This tutorial will show how to do it, by modifying the logical volumes automatically configured by Anaconda, the Fedora system installer.
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MCSE or RHCE - Which certification should you be the most proud of?
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Almost any IT related job requires interacting with an operating system at some point, and between them Windows and RedHat Linux cover a large portion of the market.
Obviously your choice of certification will depend largely on the equipment you are working with, but with that disclaimer aside, which certification is should you be most proud of?
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Configuring a SAMBA Print Server
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You may be using Linux at home or in an office environment, but often we still need to provide access to Windows desktops. Begin Linux has taken you though setting up a SAMBA Domain Controller and File Server on openSUSE 11.4. In this tutorial, again using openSUSE 11.4 we will take the time to look at adding in Print Server capabilities.
Read more »TLWIR 6: What City Is Your Distro?
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Which GNU/Linux distribution a person prefers is a very individual choice. Some people like distributions that give them total access: the freedom to do whatever they want. Others want a desktop OS that will hold their hand if they run into problems.
Read more »Converseen a Front End to ImageMagick
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Beginners can enjoy powerful image editing features, batch conversion, and much more with Converseen, a graphical front end for ImageMagick.
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Firefox 4 is unsupported, but don't freak out!
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Mozilla recently made headlines by saying (in no uncertain terms) that they would not be providing security fixes for the recently released Firefox version 4. This has caused some concern in the enterprise, who are no doubt aware (thanks to the recent activity of Lulz Security and Anonymous) that security is not something that can be taken lightly.
Read more »The Perfect Desktop - Fedora 15 i686 (GNOME)
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This tutorial shows how you can set up a Fedora 15 desktop (GNOME) that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.
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Install Mageia 1 on an encrypted btrfs file system
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Like many recent Linux releases, Mageia's installer supports btrfs, a copy-on-write file system with built-in support for subvolumes, filesystem-based RAID 0/1/10, online resizing, etc.
It is still under development, and not yet recommended for use in a production, but it is already the default file system on MeeGo, and is slated to be the default on Fedora 16.
Read more »Adobe dumps AIR on Linux. Does it really matter?
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For all its flaws, Flash (or on of its incarnations like AIR or Flex) is still one of the few ways to create fully fledged desktop style applications that can be run in a web browser, mobile device, or as a traditional desktop application.
Read more »The Linux Week in Review June 22, 2011
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For the most recent week, I picked the four stories that most excited me about the future of Linux and free software. Here is the trend that I see: Linux and free software are rapidly becoming more accepted, and more mainstream. Pretty soon, you won’t see the name “Linux” being hidden behind names like Android, WebOS, and Meego.
Read more »Install Firefox Aurora on Ubuntu 11.04
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If you are running a recent distribution release, say, Ubuntu 11.04 or Linux Mint 11, you are likely running Firefox 4. But what if you want to run the bleeding edge version (of Firefox), that is the Daily Build?
Read more »Dual-boot Fedora 15 and Ubuntu 11.04 with either side on an LVM partitioning scheme
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How to dual-boot Fedora 15 and Ubuntu 11.04 on a computer with one hard disk is the subject of this tutorial. If you have ever configured dual-booting between Windows and a Linux distribution, the steps involved should be very familiar, but if you have not, this tutorial is detailed enough that you should not have any problems in setting this up on your computer – laptop or desktop.
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