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.
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Make Windows and Linux Play Nice
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.
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Leaving a trail of breadcrumbs (using bookmarks) in OpenOffice Writer
You can insert bookmarks in a Writer document, and use the Navigator to find them. Here's how...
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Linux file recovery
Some distros of Linux has recycle bin such as Ubuntu which you can restore but for the majority, the deleted files seem to disappear forever and without any trace that it ever existed. In this article, I’ve put together list of techniques and tools that can do file/directory recovery on Linux platform.
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Linux gaming, part three: strategy games (continued)
As many readers pointed out, there are many cool strategy games available for Linux that weren’t mentioned in the part two. These games are simply too good to be missed, so here’s take two for the strategy games.
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Dirty Dell or Deliverer Dell?
There have been many whispers and flat out rants in the blogosphere about Dell’s lack of advertising, support and passion for the Ubuntu systems that they are selling. This could actually hurt the Dell initiative.
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An AJAX Erlang Jukebox !
"Our jukebox (mentioned previously) received an update yesterday: it now uses Erlang’s inets httpd..."
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Sun Fire X4600, Combining the Need for Speed With Energy Efficiency
Woo hoo! We got our hands on the first 8-socket Opteron server on the market — the Sun Fire X4600 from Sun Microsystems. This well-designed 4U system packs more power than we knew what to do with (really). That's 16 processor cores, courtesy of the Opteron 8000 series chip. Other important features include
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SiCortex sticks to Summer supercomputer ship
Tied to such a bizarre supercomputer design, SiCortex seemed certain to miss its product ship target. Not so, according to engineer Win Treese, who promised the boxes will arrive this Summer (beta systems out now) as planned, during a speech here at the Usenix conference.
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Server Snapshots: Spotlight on HP
On the surface, there hasn't been a lot of action from HP since its last Server Snapshot nine months ago. That's because there hasn't been much that could be regarded as a stunning new addition to the line up. But the company continues to roll out a steady stream of incremental upgrades, not the least of which was the addition of quad-core chips to ProLiant and dual-core chips to Integrity.
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Lotus Notes to keep spot in e-mail hierarchy
Despite an upsurge in open-source and hosted competitors, IBM's Lotus Notes corporate e-mail client software and Domino e-mail server is expected to maintain its second banana status behind Microsoft Outlook and Exchange through at least 2011.
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Optimizing AIX 5L performance: Tuning your memory settings, Part 3
Get an introduction to swap (paging) space, learn how to configure and administer it, capture statistics, and tune your Virtual Memory Manager (VMM) settings to provide for optimum swap (paging) space configuration and performance.
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LinuxCertified Announces Linux Device Driver Development Course.
LinuxCertified Inc, a leading provider of Linux training and services, today announced its next Linux Device Driver Development Course class to be held in South Bay, CA from July 30th to August 1st.
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NVIDIA 100.14.11 Display Driver
It was just two weeks ago that NVIDIA had introduced the 100.14.09 display driver, but today we have another new Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD driver out from the green binary camp. The NVIDIA 100.14.11 display driver adds support for their new GeForce 7 integrated graphics, fixes console restoration problems, and improves some other areas of their Linux (as well as FreeBSD and Solaris) driver.
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New WordPress 2.2.1 fixes bugs, blocks exploits
WordPress yesterday released WordPress 2.2.1, which incorporates a number of small bug fixes and tweaks, along with some security issues that make this a required upgrade.
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