This article will show you how to get NTFS partitions working in Linux for read/write access, and how to get EXT3 file systems working in windows.
Read more »The Many Faces Of Ubuntu
Ubuntu may just be one of the most popular distributions that the Linux community has developed over the past five years. What has made this distribution so popular is not only that it’s available for free download but you can also get a free CD mailed to you. This makes it easy for those who do not or don’t know how to burn a CD image of an .iso file.
Read more »Customize conky
Conky is a light-weight system monitor, which it draws the system information with text, lines and dots. conky allows customization, in fact it is a drawing block that prepare for you to configure. Put all your settings into ~/.conkyrc. You can always get some sample conkyrc at Conky Official Website.
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Open source's hottest 10 apps part 2
Yesterday, we began looking at the top 10 hottest open source apps today, as judged by their level of activity on SourceForge. We talked about what these apps do and just why they matter.
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Open Source Game Of The Day: The Battle For Wesnoth
I have always been a huge supporter of the open source gaming community and it never ceases to amaze me how many awesome games are actually out there for free. The Battle For Wesnoth is a must-have for any fans of turn based strategy games. The AI is simple on the surface, but actually quite complicated, and is a very engaging game.
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Take Linux for a test drive -- it's free, after all
"I really want you folks to try the free (free free free) Linux OS at some point in your life."
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Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen
"I'll try to make a long story short. I'm a Linux user and have been for many years. My current distro is Kubuntu 7.04, which is installed on my Asus F3J series laptop, with its ATI Radeon X2300 monitor and its Intel 82801G sound card. Everything works, though getting the ATI monitor to work wasn't a simple process. But that's not the story I want to tell."
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Novell plans real-time Linux updates
"Novell has announced that it will release an update to its SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time, SLERT, extensions in July, based on the recently launched SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Service Pack 1."
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Linux phone stack gains unified messaging
"Linux device software stack vendor Trolltech has acquired Fonav, a vendor of unified messaging software. Trolltech plans to use Fonav's "unified live inbox" application software to enhance its Qtopia stacks for mobile phones and VoIP phones, it said."
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Don't wait for Vista SP1, pleads Microsoft
People have been having a lot of problems with Vista and compatibility with devices/hardware. Apparently, due to this (and other things I'm sure), they haven't been getting as many converts as they'd have liked. So they put together some "facts" and are telling people not to listen the "rumours" and just sign up. Funny!
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Linux: Introducing Bugs
Linux creator Linus Torvalds noted that the kernel is evolving so quickly it is inevitable that bugs will be introduced. He used a git query to determine that there are an average of over 65 patches being committed every single day, "that translates to five hundred commits a week, two _thousand_ commits per month, and 25 thousand commits per year. As a fairly constant stream.
Read more »Linux-based websites beat Windows-based sites
Linux websites have better uptime and load faster than Windows-based websites. Research by WatchMouse, a website monitoring company, also shows that web server platform Apache outperforms the Microsoft IIS platform. Therefore, having a Linux website and an Apache webserver platform offers the best choice for professional web pages.
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Virtually Speaking: Misplaced Priorities
When planning a virtual deployment, you have a lot to consider: which servers, which workloads, which processes and more. Return on investment and total cost of ownership (TCO) often lead the charge. Security is often an afterthought, and nearly always relegated to the back seat.
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GNU ddrescue 1.4 (Stable)
GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying hard to rescue data in case of read errors. GNU ddrescue does not truncate the output file if not asked to. So, every time you run it on the same output file, it tries to fill in the gaps.
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