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May
18th

Mageia 2 and the default GNOME 3 desktop

Author: bob@lxer.com | Files under syndicated

Regarding the GNOME 3 desktop, I was hoping that the developers will at least make an attempt to customize the default desktop in a manner that makes it more user-friendly, just like that of Linux Deepin or Comice OS. But that is not what you will see …


May
18th

The Gnome 2.32 Special Edition of the PCLinuxOS Magazine.

Author: bob@lxer.com | Files under syndicated

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the Gnome 2.32 Special Edition of the PCLinuxOS Magazine.


May
18th

Using touch and imagemagick To Lie To Your Boss

Author: Dean Howell | Files under syndicated

You are habitually late meeting your deadlines at work. Your boss asks for April’s TPS report and demands that it be completed and in his inbox by Friday, 05/04/12. Friday has come and gone, though luckily your boss was out of town that day. You k…


May
18th

Running OXID eShop Community Edition On Nginx on Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10

Author: Falko Timme | Files under syndicated

This tutorial shows how you can install and run OXID eShop Community Edition (version 4.5.9) on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). OXID eShop is a feature-rich ecommerce platform; I will use the Community Edition here which is licensed under an open source certified license (GPL v3.0). nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files.


May
18th

New Kernel Vulnerabilities Affect Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Author: Marius Nestor | Files under syndicated

Canonical announced last evening, May 17th, in a security notice, that a new Linux kernel update for its Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) operating system is now available, fixing three security vulnerabilities discovered in the Linux kernel packages by v…


May
18th

How To Manage Your Servers With Rex – Best Practice

Author: Jan Gehring | Files under syndicated

(R)?ex is a server orchestration and configuration management tool. With (R)?ex you can manage all your boxes from a central point through the complete process of configuration management and software deployment. In this guide I will show you with the …


May
18th

How to dual-boot Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7

Author: finid | Files under syndicated

Now that you know what the overall goal is, how do you get from here to there? First, understand that if you have a computer running Windows 7, that Windows 7?s boot manager is responsible for making sure that the system boots. Installing Ubuntu on the…


May
18th

LPI exam prep: Network client management

Author: bob@lxer.com | Files under syndicated

In this tutorial, the fifth in a series of seven tutorials covering intermediate network administration on Linux, David Mertz continues preparing you to take the Linux Professional Institute Intermediate Level Administration (LPIC-2) Exam 202. By follo…


May
18th

Linux Desktop Space is no Place to Concede

Author: Walter V. Koenning | Files under syndicated

The desktop is not going to disappear suddenly because there is a movement to include mobile devices. On the contrary, I see years in which a business will adopt a multitude of new devices, and the infrastructure needed to make them all work coherently.


May
18th

DRM books need to disappear. NOW. (Or, my horrific experience with www.kalahari.com)

Author: Tony Mobily | Files under syndicated

DRM turned a 10 minute purchase into a 2 and a half nightmare (and counting). I wanted to buy a book: I ended up in a journey which made it dead clear that in a sane world, there is absolutely no space for DRM-protected contents. The only real warning …