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Click World News (Free subscription) | yesterday
postfail writes 'lwn.net coverage of the 2009 Linux Kernel Summit includes a recap of a presentation by Google engineers on how they use Linux. According to the article, a team of 30 Google engineers is rebasing to the mainline kernel every 17 months, presently carrying 1208 patches to 2.6.26 and inserting almost 300,000 lines of code; roughly 25% of those patches are backports of newer features.'...
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MakeUseOf.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
It’s difficult not to get bored of Ubuntu’s default brown look. Or perhaps even tired of waiting for the visual overhaul that’s been speculated since Hardy Heron last year. How about taking things in your hand and adding some spice to the desktop with some cool wallpapers? Here are 10 cool innovative Ubuntu desktop backgrounds that [...]
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DistroWatch.com: News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Miklós Vajna has announced the availability of the first preview release of Frugalware Linux 1.2, a general-purpose community distribution for intermediate users: "The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware Linux 1.2pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 1.2 stable release. A....
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PC World (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's not just the Linux faithful who are predicting the demise of Windows -- an ex-Microsoft employee believes that "proprietary software is eventually going to be doomed."
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DistroWatch.com: News (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Robert Shingledecker has announced the release of Tiny Core Linux 2.5, a very small (10 MB) minimal distribution with a graphical desktop based on Linux kernel 2.6, Busybox, Tiny X, FLTK toolkit: "Tiny Core continues to get smaller and faster. Change log for 2.5: updated rebuildfstab for speed....
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BetaNews (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
By Tim Conneally , Betanews Early in the summer, IPTV startup Myka delivered an impressive Linux-based device which was not quite a set-top box and not quite a home theater PC (HTPC). Though the device's identity was sort of nebulous, the company's goal was crystal clear: to easily make the tons of different types of Internet video content viewable on the TV. This week, the company has announced its...
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Web Upd8 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Firstly, in case you don't know, Dropbox is a cross-platform service for file sharing, synchronizing and backup. The application is free, along with basic use of the service (up to a limit of 2GB). However, by referring users to create a Dropbox account, both the user who is referring and the user who created the account get 250 MB extra space. Referring users allows you use up to 5 GB of space for...
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Lifehacker (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Grub2, the new boot menu installed by default with Ubuntu 9.10, can still look pretty old-school ugly if your tastes don't run with white terminal text on black. You can, however, customize its resolution, images, colors, and other aspects. An Ubuntu Forums user runs down the customizations he put in place on his own system. Rather than settle for the default, rather terminal-looking text, he upped...
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by Ron Miller (Free subscription) | yesterday
After learning that Microsoft opened a Win7-themed cafe, it got me wondering what a cafe would like if it ran in the same style of the OS it was named for... Full Story on DaniWeb. Photo by Marfis75 on Flickr....
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Bala's (Free subscription) | yesterday
A couple of days ago, Mandriva released the new version of its operating system, Mandriva Linux 2010. I downloaded the One edition to give it a spin. I have been running Mandriva GNOME since 2008 and I have been keeping track of the developments on the KDE 4.x series. This time around, I wanted to really [...]
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Host Days (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The matter of choosing between the operating system (OS) running the web server hosting your web site as old as the web hosting business. The OS controls all the functions of the web server hosting your site, so it comes naturally to pay special attention when choosing one over another. But ...
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Data Recovery Linux (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Linux is no doubt the best OS if you see its features like security, strong Command Line Interface (CLI) or Graphical User Interface (GUI) or through controls on the device itself. Linux based systems having high capacities and so are used as servers for simultaneously fast request processing and response generation. The Linux machines are capable on storing large amount of data and maintain it properly....
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Code Review - All issues (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
First cut at Exit Fullscreen bubble on Linux. It shows and disappears after 3 seconds. There is no way to bring it back. The following remain to be done: - Rounding the bottom corners (with a radius of 8, ActAsRoundedWindow looks ugly) and make it transparent. - Slide in/out animation. - Implement the logic in the Windows version for when to show or hide the bubble. It's pretty complicated and I haven't...
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Politics in the Zeros (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
And it has wi-fi. Tweet while riding! (Except where prohibited by grumpy lawmakers)
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mnkstllr | 11/03/2009
In Linux operating system, file system stores all of the critical information about files located on the hard drive. Without file system, operating system can not locate files stored on hard drive and thus they can not be accessed. This is the top priority for an operating system to ensure that file system is intact. It should not be corrupted for proper accessing of data. Otherwise, all of your critical...
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marianneevans2009 | 10/29/2009
DJ Linux The Return of the Geary Act >>>> Download The Return of the Geary Act <<<< artist: DJ Linux album: The Return of the Geary Act Tracklist: 1 Intro mp3 2 Nonverbal Suppletive Paradigm mp3 3 The Revolution was Television mp3 4 America Chooses mp3 5 Time Balm (the Sin of Memory) mp3 6 Shoot First mp3 7 Repeat Histories Itself (1965 Ver 2. 0) mp3 8 When Will You No mp3 9 A Clown A Circus an Officer...
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mnkstllr | 10/15/2009
In Linux operating system, you can re-size the hard drive volumes with preservation of your critical data stored on the volume, using Gparted utility. It can also be used for creating, moving and removing hard drive volumes. In some situations, resizing the hard drive volume might cause serious problems of data loss. Unsuccessful operation of disk resizing might render the disk volumes and stored data...