I have made a simple standard-dvd-video with a custom basic menu, using only free software on Ubuntu (Feisty) for pc i386.
Read more »KDE apps : Not *quite* as customizable as I thought
(Token Disclaimer: I don’t mean to start a flame war. Let’s not argue gnome vs KDE. This is simply an observation of mine. I hope someone might have a solution for it.)
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Linux Distribution Chooser Updated
Today we updated the data used by the Linux/BSD Distribution Chooser aka distro quiz. The data has been adjusted to the current development status of the included distributions. We also added support for two new systems: NetBSD and KateOS.
Read more »Ubuntu Linux: Using Mutt and Gmail
This page is a guide to using the email client Mutt to send, receive and read email on an Ubuntu computer using a Gmail account as a relay as well as a description of my own path to this goal.
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Open-Xchange Brings User-Friendly Open Source Collaboration Software to Small Businesses
Open-Xchange Inc., today announced full-featured collaboration software designed to make it easy for small- and medium-sized businesses to take advantage of the cost benefits of open source without requiring prior Linux know-how. The product, Open-Xchange Express Edition, provides organizations with an alternative to expensive proprietary collaboration software.
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HP Earns Top International Linux Security Certification
HP has been awarded a top international Linux security certification that will help government agencies and enterprise customers reduce costs while implementing secure solutions on the company's industry-standard hardware.
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Tips and tricks: How do I specify my installation key from within a kickstart file?
The Anaconda installer in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 provides a way of specifying the installation key in a kickstart file in order to allow for a fully unattended system install. Please see the two examples given below.
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Shell Geek: Rename Multiple Files At Once
Let's say you have a directory with hundreds of files with the wrong file names, and you'd like to replace every filename containing test with prod. (this is a contrived example). We can easily do this with the "for" command in bash, combined with a little bit of bash goodness. Today we'll learn how to replace text in a variable in a for loop.
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Does Comcast hate Macs? (Or Linux...)
They're the largest ISP in America. And they hate Macs. And the Firefox browser. At least, that's the impression you get from Comcast's installation procedure — and clues scattered across their home page.
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HP and MIT form DSpace Foundation
HP and MIT have provided initial funding for the DSpace Foundation, an organization dedicating to supporting users of DSpace, a FOSS archiving tool.
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HPC clusters starting to run Windows, not Linux
"Microsoft Windows is emerging as an acceptable operating system for high-performance computing (HPC) clusters in place of Linux, lowering the bar for entry into that space, according to some analysts and major vendors."
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Setup Maxemum TV-Guide in Ubuntu
"Maxemum TV-Guide is a KDE TV-guide. It is developed in C++, based on QT/KDE and uses XMLTV as it’s back end to grab listings.
Read more »How to Easily Monitor your Website Uptime for Free
Currently, there are a bunch of website monitors available, some are free, but I couldn’t find any that was really simple and satisfy our requirements.
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Linux Virtualization Options Roundup
These days, it seems like OS transparency is more necessary than ever before. Luckily, there are plenty of great virtualization options to choose from when you need to run another OS, without actually having to install it along side your existing operating system. Today, we examine each of these options and review their abilities in a rapid fire round.
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Pardus Linux 2007.2 Review
Pardus Linux - A good vision, lots of promises, but not fully there yet
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