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Second update to Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Available
2007-12-30 10:59:00 The Debian project is pleased to announce the second update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codename etch). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustment to serious problems. Please note that this update does not constitute a new version of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 but ... More About: News , Update
openSUSE 1-click Installer Search Engine
2007-12-28 05:07:00 The recent 10.3 version of openSUSE has a great 1-click installer. But getting those 1-click installer packages can be very hard. Fear not, Dr. Neville from our Mangalore Linux Users Group found something very useful: A search engine for openSUSE 1-click Installer search packages! This will be very useful. All Credits to Dr. Neville Share ... More About: Click , Search , Search Engine , How-To , Engine
Getting your openSUSE 10.3 Multimedia Ready
2007-12-23 21:15:00 Due to the licensing restrictions, like most distros, openSUSE don’t have the codecs bundled along with the installation DVD. But thanks to their 1-click installer, it isn’t hard to get the Green Chameleon to start playing all those mp3’s/videos of yours. It involves just 2 steps! First, get the Restricted Format 1-click installer. Here’s the links: Share ... More About: Multimedia , How-To , Ready
Red Hat CEO stepsdown
2007-12-23 20:43:00 In a surprise move, Red Hat said Thursday that Matthew Szulik is as president and chief executive on January 1, to be replaced by James Whitehurst, 40, Delta Air Lines’ former chief operating officer. Szulik, who took over as CEO from Bob Young in 1999 just a few months after its initial public offering, ... More About: Steps
Ubuntu 8.04 ?Hardy Heron? Alpha 2 Released
2007-12-23 20:20:00 The Ubuntu developers are moving very quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source Community has to offer. Hardy Heron Alpha 2 is the second alpha release of Ubuntu 8.04, and with this new alpha release comes a whole host of excellent new features. Note: This is still an alpha ... More About: News , Released
Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 2 Impressions
2007-12-22 20:28:00 Couple of days ago, Mozilla released the second Beta for the third version of their immensely popular browser, Firefox . Now generally I stay away from beta versions of software, but when Subbu told me it’simproved a lot over the first beta, I just rushed to download it & try it out. Let’s have a look ... More About: Mozilla Firefox , General
NVIDIA 169.07 Drivers
2007-12-21 21:06:00 NVIDIA has released a new Linux display driver, which is a stable version of their previous 169.04 beta last month. In addition, the new NVIDIA 169.07 Linux driver has a few changes, while most of the release highlights were already found in the 169.04 release. We are preparing additional Linux tests with this new ... More About: Drivers
The Linux Documentation Project Archive Download
2007-12-19 18:57:00 LDP is a loosely knit team of volunteers who provide documentation for many aspects of Linux . There are several forms of documentation: Guides, HOWTOs, man pages, and FAQs.You can browse it at http://tldp.org/ A member of Mangalore LUG, Dr. Neville has uploaded this and was kind enough allow me to post the links here, so ... More About: Download , Archive , Project , How-To
Compiz Fusion on openSUSE 10.3 and Intel onboard graphics
2007-12-18 14:48:00 Contrary to what most people think, it is possible to get all those effects on their Intel based onboard graphics. Now I’ve helped a few friends to get Compiz Fusion running on their Intel cards, and I was requested by them to post this tutorial, so here it goes. First up, download the required Compiz ... More About: Graphics , How-To
WINE 0.9.51 Released
2007-12-18 14:32:00 Wine 0.9.51 was released today, with the following main changes: A bunch of WinHelp improvements. Better Japanese font support. A ton of rpcrt4 fixes. Several Alsa capture fixes. Improved support for screen resolution changes. Lots of bug fixes. Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to appear, but the source ... More About: Wine , Released
Compiz Fusion on openSUSE 10.3 and nVidia cards
2007-12-15 11:27:00 In my previous post, I’d explained on how to install Compiz Fusion on Ubuntu Fiesty. This post will outline the simple steps for installing Compiz Fusion on openSUSE 10.3. This article is written from an nVidia user’s point of view. First, you’ll have to download nVidia’s drivers. You can get it, via the 1-click install(for Legacy ... More About: How-To , Cards
Installing And Configuring SMART in openSUSE10.3
2007-12-15 08:57:00 For the uninitiated, smart is the openSUSE equivalent of apt-get found in Debian based distributions such as Ubuntu.One of the biggest problems people who are used to apt-get face in openSUSE is that apt-get and Synaptic aren’t available in openSUSE and then they have no idea as to how to install software on their ... More About: Smart , How-To
Mounting .iso and .mds/mdf Files in Linux
2007-12-15 06:20:00 There are lots of times where you’d want to mount a CD/DVD image. Say your friend who uses his Windows box has given you a .iso file or a .mds/mdf file, created using Alcohol 120%. How would you mount them in Linux ? Using the Terminal and making use of the loop device,there is no ... More About: Files
Ubuntu Installation Guide Part 2: Installing ATI drivers And Getting New Th
2007-12-15 06:03:00 Part 2 deals with installation of ATi drivers and visually enhancing that ubuntu First of the Ati drivers Ati have released catalyst 7.11 for Linux. Download this from their website. Next login as root in ubuntu. Then double click the downloaded file. You will get different options here choose to run the file. The next screen asks ... More About: Drivers , Ubuntu , How-To , Guide , Part
Trouble Remembering Passwords? Have a Revelation!
2007-12-09 21:00:00 Consider this: You’re sitting infront of your desktop, with the login screen infront of you. However, you can’t seem to recall the username/password combo. Frustrating isn’t it? Here’s an application which is a fit solution for the problem: Revelation . Revelation is a password manager application, mainly designed for the Gnome desktop. (This doesn?t mean however that ... More About: Remembering , Passwords , Erin
A Look At Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon
2007-12-09 20:50:00 Ubuntu Gutsy has been receiving a huge amount of hype and fan fare recently, and I’ve been following Gutsy closely, from Ubuntu Fridge’s 10 Rocking Features in 10 Days to fellow bloggers and Linux users posts on Gutsy. Naturally after their Feisty launch, expectations were high(from my side). Now I’m not Ubuntu’s biggest fan(I’m a ... More About: Reviews , Ubuntu , Gutsy Gibbon
KDE 4, KDE 4.0?
2007-12-09 08:36:00 KDE Developer beineri writes in blog about the general confusion among people between KDE 4 and KDE 4.0. To quote him, The last feature release of KDE is just over a year old, is well maintained and gains selected features about every two to three months. Still people long for the first release starting with the ... More About: How-To
Fixing No Sound Bug on Dell Inspiron 1520 in Ubuntu Gutsy
2007-12-09 07:49:00 Though it’s been a while since Gutsy was released, I couldn’t try out for various reasons. But finally I got my hands on Gutsy DVD edition, and I sat about installing it on my Dell Inspiron . I noticed first signs of trouble when Gutsy was taking unsually long to boot up. Switching to verbose mode, ... More About: Ubuntu , Sound , How-To
MICROSOFT drops support for OOXML!
2007-12-06 17:03:00 From PolishLinux: Multi-trade International Corporation for Research of Office Software Open Format Technologies (MICROSOFT) has announced their surprise decision, that they cease to support OOXML document format (Office Open XML), acknowledging at the same time, that the ANSI-developed & supported TXT format will be a better, universal, solution. The decision of backing up TXT format by MICROSOFT ... More About: Microsoft , Support
Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) LAMP Server Setup
More articles from this author:2007-12-06 16:55:00 Found this really easy tutorial on setting up a LAMP server at Ubuntu Geek. As the Geek says, In around 15 minutes, the time it takes to install Ubuntu Server Edition, you can have a LAMP (Linux, Apache , MySQL and PHP) server up and ready to go. This feature, exclusive to Ubuntu Server Edition, is available at ... More About: How-To , Setup 1, 2, 3 |
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