December 2006
Knoppix v5.1.0 LiveCD Screenshots
Submitted by srlinuxx on Sunday 31st of December 2006 07:38:07 PM Filed under
In time for the new year, Knoppix 5.1.0 has been released. Even with Windows users, Knoppix is an incredibly GNU/Linux LiveCD that offers a great deal of desktop functionality and features.
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Linux hard drive benchmark & bottleneck testing software suite for performance
Submitted by srlinuxx on Sunday 31st of December 2006 06:15:56 PM Filed under
The stress test of hardware (hard drive benchmarks) is a simplistic test. There are a number of benchmarking applications software that can be used as hard disk (storage) stress testing. My favorite is Bonnie++ software.
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How to install 3D-Desktop using Beryl
Submitted by srlinuxx on Sunday 31st of December 2006 06:14:09 PM Filed under
Windows Vista provides two entirely new features to manage windows using Windows Flip and Windows Flip 3D. Linux is already using this technology. 3D-Desktop is an OpenGL program for switching virtual desktops in a seamless 3-dimensional manner on Linux. This workshop describes the 3D Desktop installation on Mandriva 2007 using Beryl and Nvidia graphics cards.
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Windows screwup forces Ubuntu shift
Submitted by srlinuxx on Sunday 31st of December 2006 06:12:39 PM Filed under
YOU NEVER QUITE wrap your head around how anti-consumer Microsoft's policies are until they bite you in the bum. Add in the customer antagonistic policies of its patsies, HP in this case, and vendors like Promise, and you have quite a recipe for pain. Guess what I did today?
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'$100 laptop' software may prove revolutionary
Submitted by srlinuxx on Sunday 31st of December 2006 06:09:13 PM Filed under
Forget windows, folders and boxes that pop up with text. When students in Thailand, Libya and other developing countries get their $150 computers from the One Laptop Per Child project in 2007, their experience will be unlike anything on standard PCs.
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Amarok Weekly News Issue 4 Released
Submitted by srlinuxx on Sunday 31st of December 2006 06:06:58 PM Filed under
Late but worthy -- that's how one can call this issue of Amarok Weekly News. It talks about new or updated Amarok features, and continues to provide tips and links to interesting scripts. As a bonus, kind of a New Year gift, we provide you an experimental RSS feed, for your pleasure. Enjoy!
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Submitted by srlinuxx on Sunday 31st of December 2006 09:48:18 AM Filed under
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Float your conky
Submitted by srlinuxx on Sunday 31st of December 2006 06:51:12 AM Filed under
Just about every conky setup I see has it pegged to the desktop, immovable and locked into place. To that end, I cooked up a .conkyrc that I can use the ALT key and the left mouse button (the standard window drag combo) to move conky around the desktop.
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Enterprise Linux 2006--A Year Of Deals
Submitted by srlinuxx on Sunday 31st of December 2006 04:45:53 AM Filed under
In the enterprise Linux space, 2006 was marked by greater expansion of Linux into vertical markets, new products, and most notably, a string of surprise business deals among vendors. The year also bore witness to an increasing trend, of sorts, among Novell, Oracle, and other software companies to justify their actions on the basis of "customer demand."
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Ubuntu User's Open Letter to Free Software Foundation
Submitted by srlinuxx on Sunday 31st of December 2006 04:44:08 AM Filed under
The Free Software Foundation is recommending gNewSense and Ututo as beginners' Linux distributions. Ubuntu user and member Ryan Lortie has written an Open Letter to the FSF raising some big points dealing with the goals of the FSF and how to accomplish them. We bring you the full text.
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