Posts Tagged ‘Linux’
Linux Gamers
live.linuX-gamers.net is a Linux live distribution: “boot ‘n play”. The idea is for you to be able to carry a decent amount of high-quality Linux games with you where ever you go for purposes of demonstration,...
Linux 3 Advances
Linux Planet: “All good things must come to an end, even on the Linux Planet. This past week we were alerted to the demise of Google’s Linux search after years of activity. While one Linux asset is now gone, the fut...
Linux 3.0 could be out in July
H-Online: “Linus Torvalds has indicated on the kernel developer mailing list that he will probably finish merging major changes for the next Linux version derived from the main development tree on Sunday evening, in advan...
Microsoft’s Skype acquisition may impact Linux users
IT World: “After a week of rumors about Skype being heavily courted by buyers such as Google and Facebook, it looks like the winning bidder may be Microsoft. According to a story the Wall Street Journal broke late Monday ...
Yahoo: The Linux Company
ZDnet: “If you know anything about big companies that run Linux, you know Google runs on Linux. Yes, every time you do a Google search you are, in one sense, a Linux user. What far fewer people know is that Yahoo is also ...
Howto run Android 3.0 HoneyComb on Linux
Android OS for Tablets named Android 3.0 Honeycomb I think everyone heard of it. Motorola XOOM, LG Optimus Pad, Samsung Galaxy Tab2 etc. tablets which are scheduled to come out are running on Honeycomb android-honeycomb-logo OS...
Android Linux FUD Debunked
ZDnet: “The claims that Android has intellectual property worries from Linux and its Gnu General Public License, version 2 (GPLv2) are rather absurd. After all, Android is a smartphone/tablet optimized Linux. Android may ...
Things need to change in linux
My own point of view, I’d been using Fedora and Ubuntu since, is that plenty of things need making a lot more user-friendly in Linux. If you use Linux long enough, you’ll soon discover a list of things you wished we...
Fedora and openSUSE Linux Drop Unity Efforts
PcWorld: “Canonical made quite a splash last fall when it announced that the Unity interface used in its Ubuntu Netbook Edition would become the default interface in the Linux distribution’s desktop version as well ...
USB autorun attacks against Linux
Net-Security: “Many people think that Linux is immune to the type of Autorun attacks that have plagued Windows systems with malware over the years. However, there have been many advances in the usability of Linux as a des...
Bodhi Linux Review
Bodhi Linux is NOT yet another Ubuntu based Linux distro. Bodhi Linux is among a very few number of Ubuntu based distros that run Enlightenment(E17) window manager instead of the popular alternatives like GNOME or KDE. I had ne...
Exclusive interview with Linus Torvalds
OMGUbuntu: “Linus Torvalds has probably done more for the world than many know, and his influence stretches far and wide throughout all corners of the globe with a variety of amazing implementations of his original vision...
Maximize Laptop performance with Linux
Do you own a laptop? Tried any Linux on your laptop? Despite all the horror stories and myth, migrating to Linux on a laptop can be very easy. With a few proper tools and guidance, you can have Linux installed and running in no...
Turn Your Linux Desktop,Tablet or Touch Device into Digital Sketchpad
UbuntuVibes: “Ardesia is a free open source application that turns your Linux device into a digital sketchpad. You can make hand drawn annotations, figures, a quick sketch, do some artwork or just use it for fun. Drawings...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 review
Version six of Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux (RHEL), comprising Desktop, Server and Workstation versions, was launched in November 2010. It is the Linux vendor’s attempt to break Microsoft’s stranglehold on the enter...
Run OS X, Linux or Windows on Chrome Notebook
TomHardware: “There aren’t many Chrome notebooks out there. Google has been sending a select few out to developers and those who signed up for its pilot program, but you can’t buy them at retail stores. Unless you...
Apple iPad: A Linux Administrator’s New Assistant
Linux Mag: “Linux fans are second only to Appleheads for their undying, and often blind, support for their beloved operating system. So, how can these two warring factions peacefully coexist in the same support space? If ...
How your secure your Linux system
Techradar: “Are you running Linux just because you think it’s safer than Windows? Think again. Sure, security is a built-in (and not a bolt-on) feature and extends right from the Linux kernel to the desktop, but it ...
What would you change about Linux?
If you use Linux long enough, you’ll soon discover a list of things you wished were different. We’re gearing up to record a new episode of our great Linux, and you get to have a say. Yes, you! The question we’...
Basic Linux Commands
Linux operating system has a beautiful graphical interface which most of us will be using. It will be good to learn the basic commands in Linux to work interactively with the Linux operating system. Linux has a back end access ...
Dofus MMORPG for Linux
DOFUS is a Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game for Linux with thousands of players across the world playing it everyday. The game is quite popular and have one of the fastest growing online community. Being a mixture o...
Linux Crontab
Crontab is list of files that you want to run on a regular schedule. Cron is a unix, solaris utility that allows tasks to be automatically run in the background at regular intervals by the cron daemon. These tasks are often ter...
Howto find out your Linux Distro version
Do you know what is your Linux OS was? Which kernel version? I bet you’ll know if you setup everything by your own. But if the Linux machine was not setup by you? How could you install applications on the machine? How wou...
Linux Firewall iptables
Network security is a primary consideration in any decision to host a website as the threats are becoming more widespread and persistent every day. One means of providing additional protection is to invest in a firewall. Though...
Howto Lock and Unlock an User on Linux
Does your or your company computer had many users shared on one machine? Do you need to block a user and do not allow him / her to log into your Linux system, maybe because she is a user who stopped working at your organization...
A history of viruses on Linux
Neowin: “We recently gave you a brief history of viruses on the Mac and as requested by a user we wanted to give you a history of viruses on Linux. Given the tight security integrated into Linux, it is difficult to take a...
Howto Check BadBlock on Linux
These days a lot of large hard drive sold everyday. Most of the hard drive may be severe spoiled with bad blocks. And it is not easy to find bad blocks on them. Anyway, if the information you are going to save in a given disk, ...
6 Excellent Linux/Open Source Web Servers
LinuxPlanet: “Here are six different web servers freely provided by the open source community for Linux, Windows, and other OSs: Apache HTTP Server Initially released in 1995, this is the most popular web server across th...
How to Play The Sims 3 in Linux
MakeTechEasier: “Wine has come a long way in the last few years, making it fairly simple to install many popular Windows games on Linux. Cedega and PlayOnLinux have made it even easier by providing GUI assistance and mana...
2010′s 5 biggest Linux and open-source stories
ComputerWorld: “The story behind the story is that Linux has become totally mainstream. You may not have a Linux desktop in front of you the way I do, but if you spend most of your day visiting Google, Facebook or Twitter...
The Linux desktop may soon be a lot faster
ComputerWorld: “Linux is fast. That’s why 90%+ of the Top 500 fastest supercomputers run it. What some people don’t realize is that Linux is much better at delivering speed for servers and supercomputers than ...
Linux DNS Lookup Command
How can I lookup dns under Linux with a simple command? Actually, you can use below dns lookup utility under Linux. You can skip all 3rd party websites. Both commands will allow you to get answer to various dns queries such as ...
Linux Mounting and Unmounting
This post will discuss how to mount or unmount a file system. The file systems on your hard drives are normally mounted as a part of the boot process. Typical the only file systems you manually mount or unmount are for the CD a...
Linux Best for Kids and Childrens
Believe it or not, there are several distributions of Linux intended for use by children as young as 3 years old. Child-oriented Linux distros tend to have a simplified interface with large, “chunky”, colourful icons and a ...
Linux kernel performance is good as benchmarks show
Phoronix: “While we have conducted studies related to the Linux kernel performance in the past such as benchmarking up to twelve kernel releases, going out the door this morning are the results from the largest-ever Linux...
Linux Filesystem Overview
Linux does not store programs the same way Windows does. On Windows, a program’s files are normally stored in Program Files, and that usually includes just about everything the program needs. Linux, however, is differ and may...
Update Linux through Proxy
How to update Fedora if your network internet connection using proxy server??? The article below show you the step by step enable yum update through proxy server on Linux Fedora, CentOS and Ubuntu system. There are few methods ...
Linux Archive Tools Tutorial
There are various archive file format exist such as .tar.gz, .tgz, .tar.bz2, .gz, .bz2, .zip, .rar, .7z. Among the confusion new Linux users often face is the variability among archived and compressed formats used by downloaded...
20 Reasons Linux
The economy, as everyone is well aware, still recovering. While the days of costly software and expensive licensing is not likely to end completely, I suspect we will see a sharp decrease in this era. I decided to write 26 reas...
