Friday, June 20th, 2008
After a long, long wait for SUSE maniacs like me, its finally here: Presenting the latest version of openSUSE, openSUSE 11.0
The new version features a slick shiny new installer, updated KDE 4.0.4, GNOME 2.22, Kernel version 2.6.25. If you’re still hesitant to jump to KDE4.0, you can use KDE 3.5.9 ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Recently, Facebook introduced Facebook chat - which allows you to chat with your Facebook friends in realtime similar to IM, as compared to post-message-on-wall-and-wait-for-replies kinda communication that Facebook users endured so far. A slight problem would be that to use this feature, users need to be logged in and be ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Moblin is an open source initiative bringing developers together all over the world to create rich media and internet experience based on Linux operating systems for Intel Atom processors.
Moblin event will be conducted in Hyderabad on June 26th, 2008 and in Chennai on June 27th, 2008.
Register for the event, or ...
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
This is another one of those tips I always wanted to post, but kept forgetting :| So here goes.
Unlike Linux which can mount and access Windows' FAT, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS filesystems, Windows is incapable of even acknowledging and detecting a Linux filesystem. Fear not, here are 3 softwares which ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
I'd posted previously on How to install Fedora 8 on USB pen drive. Now that Fedora 9 is out, Kevin Purdy over at Lifehacker has post how-to do the same for Fedora 9.
A quick excerpt:
Fedora 9 Linux distribution makes putting a full-fledged desktop on a portable USB thumb drive a ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Debian and other debian-based distros like Ubuntu have, by default, has the root account disabled as a security measure.(thanks to Subbu and PICCORO for the clarification)
To re-enable the root account, just open the command prompt, and type
sudo passwd root
You'll get the following set of messages:
sathya@sathya-laptop:~$ sudo passwd root
Enter new UNIX ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Oracle joins the list of vendors offering free media consisting of Linux distributions - a list which includes Canonical which ships Ubuntu and Fedora under their Free Media Program. Oracle is now giving its Linux distribution, named Oracle Unbreakable Linux -Â a 2 DVD set. For support you'll have to ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
It's the season of Linux distribution releases! Ubuntu was released about 3 weeks ago, and now it's time for Fedora 9, aka "Sulphur". So What's new?
PackageKit
Much Like Ubuntu's Add/Remove Programs, Fedora gets a similar one, known as "PacakgeKit".PackageKit is a cross-distribution package management solution that has a complete yum ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Project Neon is the codename for a nightly build service for Amarok 2.
Neon is intended to be used by everyone who wants to help us find bugs, keep track of development, join development or just wants to live on the bleeding edge. It is not intended to be used instead ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Found this article while going random browsing, the original article is from Linux.com with JC Lima reccreates it, with example. Definitely worth reading
At first it did not make a lot of sense since unless you have the file open, this will not work. How likely are you to have the ...
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