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Nov
30th

Expanding A Root-FS

Author: LXer Linux News | Files under syndicated

There might be the situation, that your root filesystem runs out of space, so it has to be expanded. With filesystems other than the root filesystem this could easily be done for instance with gparted. With the root filesystem this is not possible, as gparted could only expand filesystems that are not mounted, which is impossible with the root filesystem. The only way to enlarge the root filesystem is to boot from a kind of rescuesystem, Live-CD or the like, and then to expand the root filesystem. The following tutorial describes, how this is achieved by using Systemrescue-CD.


Nov
30th

Mozilla Sea Monkey review

Author: LXer Linux News | Files under syndicated

There was a time when Netscape’s internet suite was pretty popular. The Mozilla Foundation, which was born out of Netscape, originally released the Mozilla Suite. Now renamed SeaMonkey, the internet suite has recently hit version 1.x…


Nov
30th

Photo Compositing with The GIMP: Part 2

Author: LXer Linux News | Files under syndicated

In this article by Reynante Martinez, we will learn about photo compositing with The GIMP.


Nov
30th

Graphic styles in OpenOffice.org Draw and Impress

Author: Bruce Byfield | Files under syndicated

One of OpenOffice.org’s greatest strengths is its emphasis on styles. Some users balk at styles, claiming they are restrictive, but no other feature repays a little organization with so much ease of use and saving of time. Yet even those who are used to styles in Writer tend to overlook the styles used in other applications. That is especially true of graphic styles.

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Nov
30th

Photo Compositing with The GIMP: Part 1

Author: LXer Linux News | Files under syndicated

In this article by Reynante Martinez, we will learn about photo compositing with The GIMP.


Nov
30th

First look at Kubuntu Netbook Edition 9.10 Technology Preview and the KDE Plasma-Netbook 4.4 interface

Author: LXer Linux News | Files under syndicated

By the time Ubuntu 10.04 “Lucid Lynx” is released next April netbook users will have three Ubuntu variants customized for their smaller systems. Development versions of the forthcoming Kubuntu and Moblin variants were released simultaneously with Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” in September. This week we take a look at the Kubuntu Netbook Edition 9.10 Technology Preview. Since the name of the release is more than a mouthful I’ll refer to it as KNE from here on.


Nov
30th

System76 Ubuntu PCs: Cyber Monday Sale

Author: LXer Linux News | Files under syndicated

System76, the Ubuntu PC maker, continues to offer special holiday pricing on selected systems through Monday evening, November 30. Here’s a look at System76′s Ubuntu PC and notebook discounts, which are part of an ongoing Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales promotion, reports WorksWithU.


Nov
30th

FreeBSD 8.0 Benchmarked Against Linux, OpenSolaris

Author: LXer Linux News | Files under syndicated

With the stable release of FreeBSD 8.0 arriving last week we finally were able to put it up on the test bench and give it a thorough look over with the Phoronix Test Suite. We compared the FreeBSD 8.0 performance between it and the earlier FreeBSD 7.2 release along with Fedora 12 and Ubuntu 9.10 on the Linux side and then the OpenSolaris 2010.02 b127 snapshot on the Sun OS side.


Nov
30th

The proprietary sins of an average GNU/Linux user

Author: LXer Linux News | Files under syndicated

New distros pop-up every day & try to be as FREE as possible, however when attempting to install a distribution on a new PC of a common next door user, you will probably find that you can’t avoid falling into these two proprietary sins..


Nov
30th

Distro Review: OpenSUSE 11.2

Author: LXer Linux News | Files under syndicated

There’ve been a lot of big releases in the Linux distro world lately, and none bigger than OpenSUSE 11.2, the latest offering from Novell. They can be a controversial company in some parts of the FOSS community, but whatever your personal view, you can’t deny they’re also contributing to progress in many ways. They employ a lot of important Linux kernel developers for example. The last time I did a really in-depth review of OpenSUSE was 2 years ago with 10.2, though I did do a quick review of version 11 for Linux Planet. I decided it was high time to take a look at how things are developing in the SUSE world. So here’s how I got on.