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Web app. of the day: interactive Linux kernel map
2007-10-12 00:13:00 As it comes from name of the post, here is interactive Linux kernel map I recently came across. It’s available as web application as well as html version. I think you understand who it may be useful for… Good luck in programming! Share This More About: Interactive , Kernel , Interact
7 "must read" Linux tutorials
2007-10-12 00:13:00 If you're going to have long relations with Linux operating system and use it as efficiently as possible I suggest to read the following howtos and guides that will help you on the way to advanced Linux user status Share This More About: Tutorials , Read
htop: new generation Linux processes viewer
2007-10-11 09:21:00 As it comes from htop’s manual page, htop is free (GPL) ncurses-based process viewer, that is similar to top, but allows to scroll the list vertically and horizontally to see all processes and their full command lines. Tasks related to processes (killing, renicing) can be done without entering their ... More About: Linux , Viewer , Generation , Processes
Run Photoshop with Ubuntu (or any other Linux)
2007-10-10 23:31:00 Adobe Photosho p (or simply Photoshop), is a graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems. Currently it’s market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems. Unfortunately it’s available for M$ Windows and Apple OS X users only. Thanks to heaven (and Wine’s developers of course) there is ... More About: Linux , Ubuntu
Mandriva tutorials for system administrator
2007-10-10 15:29:00 Below is the list of tutorials that might be useful for Mandriva sysadmin newbies. 1. Installing Mandriva Linux - Full tutorial This tutorial contains Mandriva step-by-step installation instructions and images. 2. Remote access Mandriva 2007 Free using FreeNX NoMachine NX is a Terminal Server and remote access solution based on a comprising set of enterprise class open source technologies. ... More About: Tutorials , System , Strato , Administrator
One day without graphics but with Linux
2007-10-09 22:50:00 The idea to work one day without graphical applications and use only text utilities like wget isn't new but… Here is the list of essential tools that are invaluable to make "text mode day" real. Many described applications are already installed out-of-the-box after certain Linux distro installation, if not command sudo aptitude install will help ... More About: Graphics
Open XML Explained e-book available for free
2007-10-09 22:03:00 Here is a downloadable copy of "Open XML Explained" by Wouter Van Vugt, the first book on Open XML development. This 128-page book covers the basics of Open XML, including many of the topics covered in the Open XML developer workshops, as well as several additional topics. The author is a software development trainer/consultant who ... More About: Free , Book , E-book , E Book
Graphical vi/vim functional keys sheet
2007-10-09 22:02:00 vi is a free software screen-oriented text editor written by Bill Joy in 1976 for an early BSD release.Vim, which stands for Vi IMproved, is an open source, multiplatform text editor extended from vi. It was first released by Bram Moolenaar in 1991. Since then, numerous features have been added to Vim, many of which ... More About: Sheet , Keys , Graphical , Shee
Complete list of Google staff
2007-10-08 23:40:00 Sites Accounts AdSense AdWords Alerts Analytics Anatomy Authors Banned Books Calendar Checkout Co-op Code for Educators Custom Search Current TV Docs and Sheets Earth Enterprise Earth Outreach Executives Foundation Gadget Ventures Gadgets Grants Hot Trends iGoogle Investor Relations Help Jobs JotSpot Mail Mars Mashup Editor Moon News Archive News Suggest Papers Press Centre Privacy Research SearchMash Sets Scary Stories Shakespeare Solar Panels Spreadsheet Store Submit Content Suggest Tech Talks Testimonials Translate US Government Zeitgeist Searches Web Images Groups News Products Blogs Books Maps Scholar Video Music Reader Base Directory Finance Catalogs Answers History Bookmarks Linux Apple Microsoft Trends Notebook Accessible Code Patents View Timeline View Map Movies Definitions Weather ... More About: List , Staff , Complete
Linux and Unix Live CDs list
2007-10-08 17:21:00 Name ISO min and max size (in MBytes) Download Links SLAX 41 202 Kanotix 503 719 PCLinux OS 299 685 NimbleX 200 200 Knoppix 700 700 GoblinX 302 302 Damn Small Linux 48 48 MEPIS 693 693 Puppy Linux 60 60 Ubuntu 699 3553 FreeSBIE 596 596 Gentoo 50 1815 dyne:bolic 444 444 Ultimate Boot CD 121 186 WHAX 574 574 Elive 200 700 SLAX KillBill Edition 188 188 GoblinX Mini Edition 149 149 Suse Live -Eval 1446 1451 SystemRescueCD 92 104 DebianLive 80 740 Complete list is available here. Share This More About: Unix , List
Fun: Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X and DOS airlines
2007-10-07 10:53:00 What would be if below mentioned operating systems ran airlines? Different operating systems. Different styles. This humorous analogy, applying operating system philosophies as if they were airlines, is a long-standing much-circulated amusing story! UNIX Airways Everyone brings one piece of the plane along when they come to the airport. They all go out on the runway and ... More About: Windows , Linux , Airlines , Unix
Clean up your Ubuntu with deborphan
2007-10-06 12:10:00 If you want to clean up your Ubuntu or Debian machine and delete unnecessary (orphaned) deb packages you can use utility deborphan. It finds packages that have no packages depending on them. The default operation is to search only within the libs and oldlibs sections to hunt down unused libraries. Install ... More About: Clean , Orphan
Two desktop apps you must know about
2007-10-05 19:43:00 1. Mercury Messenger is Java-based MSN client. Nice and powerful MSN client. Among it’s features I would mention the following ones: Support for multiple operating systems (you can run the same Mercury version on Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Linux and Windows) USB Stick Support (all settings, chat logs, etc… will be saved on your ... More About: Desktop
Summarize system resourses used by Linux application
2007-10-05 19:09:00 Linux utility time is used to run programs and summarize system resources usage. time runs the program COMMAND with any given arguments ARG… When COMMAND finishes, time displays information about resources used by COMMAND (on the standard error output, by default). If COMMAND exits ... More About: Linux , System , Application , Stem
openSUSE 10.3 is released
2007-10-05 09:03:00 04 Oct 2007 - Novell announced the availability of openSUSE 10.3, the newest version of the community Linux distribution. Announced features: On the desktop Beautiful Green Artwork KDE 3.5.7 GNOME 2.20 GTK YaST 1-Click Install Multimedia New/Redesigned YaST Modules Compiz and Compiz Fusion Virtualisation OpenOffice.org 2.3 Behind the Scenes New Package Management Greatly Improved Boot ... More About: Released
iPhone as network-enabled root shell
2007-10-05 08:43:00 Well known security expert H.D. Moore published entertaining article on how to make your Apple iPhone to be a hacking platform… Having a network-enabled root shell in my pocket is great, but being able to pop a root shell on someone else’s iPhone is even better. A few things to keep in mind: Every process runs ... More About: Iphone , Network , Shell , Root , Bled
Why to use virtualization?
2007-10-04 13:03:00 Actually there are a lot of resources describing why virtualization matters, but here is one more informative article. Virtualization is one of those buzzwords that is being freely floated around the industry left and right, and can mean so many different things to so many different people. Lately, virtualization has been getting a lot of ...
QEMU virtualization application
2007-10-04 12:28:00 QEMU is an open source emulator for complete PC systems. In addition to emulating a processor, QEMU permits emulation of all necessary subsystems, such as networking and video hardware. It also permits emulation of advanced concepts, such ... More About: Virtualization , Application
Photos: Linux core team and Linus' favorite distro
2007-10-03 19:12:00 Just came across nice photo of tiny Linux core developer team. The next photo shows Linus Torvalds' actual favorite distro. I agree with him definitely. Share This More About: Photos , Team , Core , Favorite
Buddi: track your finances in a simple way
2007-10-02 10:34:00 Buddi is a personal finance and budgeting program, aimed at those who have little or no financial background. In making this software, author has attempted to make things as simple as possible, while still retaining enough functions to satisfy most home users. To my mind the idea of using such applications to manage ... More About: Finances , Simple , Track , Fina
Sexy wallpapers for Ubuntu Linux
2007-10-01 10:02:00 Here is the list of sexy wallpapers for Ubuntu and actually for any other Linux distribution. Every wallpaper can be downloaded from gnome-look.org. More About: Wallpapers , Ubuntu Linux , Sexy
Conky: light-weight Linux system monitor
2007-09-30 13:53:00 Conky is a light-weight and highly configurable system monitor for X. It can monitor many different aspects of your Linux computer. You choose what to monitor and you choose where the monitor is displayed on your desktop through use of a configuration file .conkyrc. As for me I like to have it at the top ... More About: System , Weight , Monitor , Light
Most popular Ubuntu blogs
2007-09-28 16:31:00 Here is Top 25 of Ubuntu blogs provided by FreeGeekery. These four metrics were used to calculate the rankings: ? Google PageRank ? Alexa Rank ? Technorati Authority ? Bloglines Subscribers # Ubuntu Blog Total 1 Ubuntu Geek 6 10 10 10 36 2 Ubuntu Blog 6 10 10 10 36 3 Mark Shuttleworth 7 9 10 10 36 4 The Fridge 6 10 9 10 35 5 All About Linux 5 9 10 10 34 6 Ubuntu Tutorials 5 9 9 9 32 7 Linux on Desktop 6 8 10 8 32 8 jonbacon@home 6 8 9 9 32 9 Wombat Ubuntu Blog 3 10 8 9 30 10 Only Ubuntu Linux 3 8 9 9 29 11 UbuntuOS 4 6 7 8 25 12 Motho ke motho ka botho 2 7 8 7 24 13 Ubuntu Linux Tips & Tutorials 3 7 7 7 24 14 ID- Ubuntu Blogs 4 7 7 4 22 15 Ubuntu ... More About: Popular , Pula
Full Circle Magazine?s 5th issue for Ubuntu newbies
2007-09-28 15:30:00 The FREE Independent Magazine for the Ubuntu Linux Community fullcirclemagazine.org just released it’s 5th issue containing articles useful for Ubuntu newbies: Fluxbuntu - Step-by-step Install How-To : Report Bugs with LaunchPad, CoLoCo Edubuntu Presentation, From VMware to VirtualBox and Learning Scribus Pt.5. Review of Bridge Construction Kit. Preview of Gusty Gibbon Letters, Q&A, My Desktop, My PC, Top 5, the ... More About: Full , Circle , Newb
Google is 9 years old now
2007-09-28 14:56:00 PageRank 10 page google.com, turned 9 years old at 27th of September 2007, according to the special logo put up for the occasion yesterday. wikipedia.org: Googl e was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University and the company was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 7, 1998. Through ... More About: Years
Portable and integrated Linux distro for USB drives
2007-09-27 14:58:00 FaunOS is a portable (easy-to-carry), fully integrated Linux operating system with over 500 pre-installed packages. It is specifically designed to run from a portable USB Memory Device (USB Flash Drive). It can also run from a DVD. It ... More About: Portable , Integrated , Distro
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Linux driver
2007-09-27 14:38:00 Good news for owners of Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi series as manufacturer’s binary Linux drivers are available for free downloading. The driver is compatible with ALSA. Bad news: it’s available only for x86_64 Linux. Here is the list of supported cards: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty Creative Sound Blaster ... More About: Driver
XFCE based KateOS 3.6 released
2007-09-24 18:29:00 New version of nice Polish Linux distribution KateOS that is based on XFCE is released. KateOS is currently the best Polish(ed) Linux distro. It is developed dynamically by Kate team, and actively supported by a well educated community. Since early 2004, the team members have learned exactly what are the needs of Linux ... More About: Released , Base , Xfce
Fun: best hosting provider ever
2007-09-24 18:13:00 Just found very nice web hosting provider that that offers unbelievably stable service: nouptime.com: Our Redundant Department of Redundancy has a Redundant Server Failover System that will initiate a failover hosting in case of unexpected server uptime. Here are it’s best "hosting packages": More About: Hosting , Provider , Ovid
Make squid to mark cache hits and misses (rpm package for Fedora 5)
More articles from this author:2007-09-24 17:57:00 Squid is a proxy server and web cache daemon. It has a wide variety of uses, from speeding up a web server by caching repeated requests, to caching web, DNS and other computer network lookups for a group of people sharing network resources, to aiding security by filtering traffic. Although primarily used for HTTP and ... More About: Fedora , Make , Hits , Mark , Squid 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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