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How to Make the Switch to Linux
Right out of the gate, let me make a disclaimer here. This is NOT an advertisement nor am I “recruiting” Linux users. Indeed, if you’re satisfied with Windows, or any other “non-Linux OS”, and have absolutely no reason to switch . . . fine. You’re likely better off sticking with what you’re comfortable with. However [...]
Full StoryKDE 4.6 Review
According to the KDE 4.6 road map, KDE 4.6 was released on January 26 of this year. I installed the plasma desktop and have about a week to play with KDE 4.6 and here is what I have found. I have included some KDE screenshots from my system. The KDE team has fixed thousands of [...]
Full StoryVideo and MP3 Support for Fedora Core 11
With the release of Fedora Core 11 coming, you will need to know how to get Video Codecs and MP3 support. As always, the Fedora team is not releasing FC11 with MP3 support. I have a quick two lines on how you can get the support for all your media content. First, you have to [...]
Full StoryLooks are Everything
You always hear how stable Linux is but one of the great things about Linux is how awesome you can make it look. With a 3D card and Compiz there is no end to the configurations you can make. Compiz has a lot of functionality in it also, but the eye candy is what you [...]
Full StoryChrome Plays 2nd Fiddle for Mac and Linux
It comes at no surprise that the Mac OS and Linux will get their own Google Chrome browser, but not until June of 09. In hopes that Chrome would spend more development time releasing new extensions, it looks like this may slow the process up a bit with the development for the Mac OS and [...]
Full StoryFree DVR with MythTV
MythTV is a free Linux application which turns a computer with the necessary hardware into a network streaming digital video recorder, a digital multimedia home entertainment system, or Home Theater Personal Computer. It can be considered as a free and open source alternative to Tivo or Windows Media Center. If you have an old computer [...]
Full StoryTimeVault Backup for Linux
Time Vault is an open source free backup utility for Linux. Time Vault creates incremental backups of files that can be restored at a later date. Snapshots are copies of a directory at a certain time. Snapshots use very little space for the files that haven’t changed since the last snapshot was made. This is [...]
Full StoryFedora Core 10 Review, Part 2
I am a Redhat Certified Technician (RHCT), so naturally I do like the Fedora distributions. The last couple Fedora releases have little bit of a let down, slow and buggy. This caused me to convert over to Ubuntu which I am currently using (8.10). After my install of Fedora Core 10 in Part 1 of [...]
Full StoryFedora Core 10 Review, Part 1
Fedora 10 (codename Cambridge), released 25 November 2008 has been hyped to be as good as Fedora 6. Now I loved Fedora 6 and used it as my primary desktop for a long time. Then I “upgraded” to 8, that was a huge disappointment. I skipped even trying 9 after the headaches with 8. When [...]
Full StoryLinux to Xbox Media Share
Like most people I have a couple TVs in my house. One of the TVs has the Linux based MythBox on it and the other has the Xbox 360. Now I keep all my movies on the MythBox (all legal backups of course). I wanted to play these on my Xbox on the other TV. [...]
Full StoryLatest Kiwi Linux Gets OpenOffice 3.0
Here’s another reason to change to Linux if you haven’t already. Kiwi Linux 8.12 will include many other appetizing treats besides OpenOffice 3.0. The new version of Kiwi Linux 8.12 brings many updated packages, awesome new features, more languages and, it includes the OpenOffice.org 3.0 open source office suite. Kiwi Linux 8.12 is also packed [...]
Full StoryVista Opens Door For Linux Distributors
This could result in Microsoft losing some of its market share with pre-loaded Windows Vista on new PCs. This looks like the tide is changing and it could be good for all consumers PCs become cheaper with Linux preloaded instead of Windows Vista. On Tuesday, IBM put its reputation and strength behind Linux distributors Canonical, [...]
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