Creating and managing user accounts are very basic tasks that you would need to perform on any operating system. If you are new to Linux and to Mandriva, this article provides information on how to add a user account and enable the built-in guest account on Mandriva 2011, the soon-to-be released desktop edition of the popular Linux distribution.
Read more »ASUS explains how MeeGo Linux works
There's a lot of buzz about the soon to be released Eee PC X101H — the $199 Netbook from ASUS running MeeGo in place of Windows 7. But just what is MeeGo? MeeGo is a Linux-based open source Operating System optimized for the next generation of PC users. MeeGo is all about staying connected.
Read more »Rebuild Spice-Gtk-0.7 via Debian Unstable with GObject-introspection enabled
The most recent version of Spice-Gtk-0.7 coming from Debian Unstable doesn't support GObject-introspection. Original version ([1]) is not supposed to install files like *.gir and *.typelib. It also requires fixes for debian/control and debian/rules. To understand better why this step has to be undertaken, please , view "Introspection Overivew"
Read more »Wrap Up from Free Desktop Summit 2011 in Berlin
As one of the foremost free and open source gatherings, the Desktop Summit was in the right setting in the City of Berlin. At the Summit, the City announced the winners of its open source competition “Berlin – Made to Create”, a program promoting Open Source and open standards ideas and solutions. At the same session, the GNOME and KDE communities also announced their outstanding contributors.
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KMail – A Different Kind Of Email Client For KDE [Linux]
Today we’ll be looking at a top KDE choice that has plenty to offer for those of you who crave some power and control over their applications. KMail is the default email client of the KDE desktop environment, which is available on a number of platforms, although primarily known for being on Linux.
Read more »How to install World of Padman in Fedora
This tutorial provides step by step instructions on how to install World of Padman on a Fedora 14 and 15. World of Padman is cartoon-style, first person shooter game where players must take on opponents across wide variety of giant maps. Its a free, colorful, funny and awesome game.
To install World of Padman, open up your terminal and type the below command as root.
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How to install Urban Terror in Fedora
Urban terror is a great FREE FPS Game with low system requirements, it features realistic game play similar to counter strike and works flawlessly in Linux. Its easy to install, its available in the repository so installation in Fedora is very easy, you just need to type one command.
Read more »Microsoft signs 'legal covenant' with Chinese Linux vendor
Microsoft demonstrates how much times have changed by reprising its 'Novell' type of caper in China.
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Fedora 16 KDE and GNOME 3 Alpha screenshots
The first alpha of Fedora 16 was released yesterday (August 23, 2011). As you might expect, this is buggy, really buggy. While bug hunting is in progress, here are a few screenshots from the KDE and GNOME editions.
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Configuring the DHCP Server on openSUSE
As we have mentioned before, graphical configuration of most things in openSUSE is pretty easy. Command line configuration is pretty easy too and once known can be quicker than the GUI. We will step you through both configurations as we build up in this series to PXE Installation server.
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West Coast Labs Validates BalaBit’s Shell Control Box 3.0 and syslog-ng Store Box 2.0 Performance
BalaBit IT Security announced that two of its products (SCB & SSB) have been reviewed by West Coast Labs, an independent product test lab, under its Performance Validated program. The testers found that both BalaBit products met benchmark criteria: the appliances are easily integrated, provide high availability, and are 100% accurate.
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Google Music: Music in the cloud
Back in early June of this year, most likely scrambling to steal some of the thunder from Apple’s musical cloud offering announcement, Google had announced their own cloud-centric approach to music, which they simply called Google Music.
Read more »How To Speed Up Drupal 7.7 With Boost And nginx (Debian Squeeze)
This tutorial shows how you can speed up your Drupal 7.7 installation on a LAMP stack (Debian Squeeze) with the help of Boost and nginx. Boost provides static page caching for Drupal enabling a very significant performance and scalability boost for sites that receive mostly anonymous traffic.
Read more »Linux Girl
Linux girl has been using Ubuntu for several years now and currently it is her primary operating system. She believes more people should be using open source software rather than proprietary applications.
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Parsix 3.7 review
Parsix is a Linux distribution based on Debian Testing. It is a community distribution with roots in Iran. It is not as popular as other community distributions, but development is active and well. The only previous review of Parsix on this website was of Parsix 3.2, which was more than a year ago.
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