The new version of KDE has shipped:
“The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5.2, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. KDE 3.5.2 ships with a basic desktop and fifteen other packages (PIM, administration, network, edutainment, utilities, multimedia, games, […]
Fedora has released a new version of their popular linux distribution. Here is a screencast of some of the new look and features in the new version.
You can view the screencast here
Tom Adelstrin pens an article about Why people like linux.
So, here’s the most current findings I have in order of importance. They differ greatly from the reasons Ransom Love gave at a Linux Business Conference in Austin six years ago when the major reasons people used Linux included: File and Print serving, an Internet Platform, […]
A user documents his move from Microsoft Windows XP to Linux.
“After a few weeks, my desktop is running great (screenshot on the right) and I haven’t booted into Windows XP at all since I started the migration. This is partly due to the fact that I have my essential applications working, and partly due to […]
Cyberia points out this linux distribution chooser. This is very handy. I have often thought that one of the downfalls of linux was ironically the many choices available. Every linux user you speak to swears by their distrubution. Even knowledge on how to do things from one distribution to another varies. So, once you build up some […]
AviDarik has a good series of posts on the experience of switching to linux from windows. Some interesting reading here… I agree with the conclusion wholeheatedly and it is my experience too.
This is an introduction to a series of posts I intend to write.In this series I will journal my attempt to move from being […]
Everyone wants a quick boot time, from the beginner user to the advanced user, this is a issue that bothers us all. As Linux has advanced it has increasingly become slower to boot. I have tested on my machine 4 Linux distributions: Linspire, Fedora 3 & 4, Suse 9.2 & 9.3, and Debian. And on […]
Asterisk - the Open Source PBX!
Easily build your own multiprotocol PBX on Linux!
Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more. Asterisk does voice over IP in many protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment […]
Linux command line cheat sheet
This is a list of some handy/common things you can do on the command line in Linux.Note items marked with • are valid/safe to paste without modification into a terminal, soyou may want to keep a terminal window open while reading this so you can cut & paste.
(heads up to digg.com)
gtkpod
While it won’t strip out the DRM on protected AAC files, gtkpod otherwise allows Linux users to access and download the contents of their iPods. Version 0.94 was released a few days ago, so if you’ve been putting off that shiny new purchase (and you know who you are), maybe now is the time to […]