This Yahoo! client for Linux operating system supports almost all of the features you would expect to find on the official Windows Yahoo! client: Voice chat, webcams, faders, 'nicknames', audibles, avatars, display images, and more. Yet, it remains very light-weight and memory-friendly.
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Install Android on your system to test it using Google Android LiveCD
Want to try Google Android? Today is no longer necessary to have a mobile phone with Android installed to be able to prove it.Recently released a new version of Google Android LiveCD to test or install on a PC computer. Just download the ISO image of Live-Android that Google released for testing on a PC, burn onto a CD and boot the computer from this CD.
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Google Chrome OS: We all benefit!
The GNU/Linux community benefits from the announcement of Google creating a OS based on the Linux kernel.
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Finding out how much disk space you use
Sufficient quantity of free disk space is an absolute necessity irrespective of the Linux distro that you run. We can find out statistics about disk usage with certain simple command line utilities. Let us explore a few of them
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20 Useful, Common Linux (Ubuntu) Commands for New Users
I recently was asked by a new Ubuntu user (also involved in web, graphic design, etc.), what some of the more common day to day commands I use are.
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Formatting a USB memory stick (pendrive) in Ubuntu Linux
When you format a hard drive or storage unit, you have different file systems from which we can use, for example, vfat and ntfs for Windows, and swap, ext2 and ext3 for Linux systems.Here, i explain how to format a USB drive using
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10 tips for just installed Ubuntu Linux
After trying many distributions, I now feel like one of the best, if not the best is Ubuntu. It's clean, and without unnecessary clutter all over the system and on the desktop. The operating system is quite nimble, and runs really well on older machines without the need for new and top of the line equipment. In the following are a few tips on the Ubuntu Linux Operating System.
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VirtualBox Solutions
As a Linux administrator or as as Desktop user, there are times when you would either like to try a different distribution or when you need several test machines that you can blow away when you are done with them.. I have used VMWare with a a lot of success over the years but VirtualBox provides an excellent option that is Open Source.
Read more »Installing VirtualBox 3.0 On An Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop
This tutorial shows how you can install Sun VirtualBox 3.0 (released on June 30, 2009) on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop. With VirtualBox you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux and Windows under a host operating system.
Read more »How to install Google Desktop on Ubuntu Linux
Although Google Desktop is not the only search and indexing herrmamienta available on the web, it takes a large company behind it to make it very popular.Well, Linux version of this tool
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Linux Migration Guide: Finding Linux Equivalents to Your Favorite Windows Programs
Which do you spend more time interacting with: your operating system, or your software? It's possible to get too pedantic with the answer as ultimately everything comes back to the operating system, but really, the answer is your software. You edit a file in a text editor or word processor. You read your email in an email client. You browse the Web in a Web browser.
Read more »World Of Padman: Amazing FPS game
Great graphics, fast and addictive. Works well on GNU/Linux.
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Actors, Messages and Low Lock Contention for Java
Using actors and messages, concurrency is easier to understand. However, most developers don't want to learn a new programming language in order to use actors and messages. If you want to forget a bit about threads and locks, you can add nice actor support to an existing Java application using Jetlang.
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Which distribution do I download?
There are a lot of GNU/Linux distributions out there. It takes time and some effort to find a compatible one that fits your needs.
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HOWTO setup Squid Proxy & DansGuardian Internet Content Filter in ubuntu
Installing Apache
Setting a Static IP Address
Installing and Configuring Squid
Install the Squid Proxy Server
Restarting Squid and DansGuardian
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