Thursday, July 24th, 2008
In this day modern day, most software installations can be done using repositories and package managers. However, you might face a situation of having only the source files availalble with you – you probably would want to try out bleeding edge software, which hasn’t been packaged yet, or isn’t available ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Admin's Note: This is a guest post by Aditya. Though this post was drafted on 1st July, my work commitments and rather bad memory prevented this post being published. Due apologies.
I know that a title is a bit harsh but I am afraid it is true.
First lets get into some ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
This is a guest post by Kunal Gautam. This article is aimed at RHEL and Fedora users.
If you’ve been using Linux for a while, then you’d know how much of a pain it is to install a software which runs into dependency problems. One way of getting around this is ...
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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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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Enjoy a Better Web
Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours - it’s that easy. We're not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons ...
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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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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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