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December 10, 2008

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Sun releases latest version of OpenSolaris and plans laptops in future

Sun Microsystems announced today the immediate availability of OpenSolaris 2008.11. The new features in OpenSolaris include Time Slider that provides an interface to the ZFS functionality to all users. Developers are given expanded access to respositories to be able to get innovations from all the users through the updated package manager. Sun has also announced a strategic relationship with Toshiba to deliver pre-configured OpenSolaris on Toshiba laptops in early 2009. Both users and developers will then be able to buy

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August 1, 2007

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Hard Drive Data Recovery Made Easy with Unstoppable Copier Software

Recovering files from disks of your laptops, servers and personal computers with bad sectors, badly damaged disk, scratches and boot sector failures has become easy with a free tool called Unstoppable Copier. The tool does its great job of recovering files and folders from bad disks by ignoring all the error messages that one would have otherwise encountered while using standard ways and tools to retrieve data from damaged disks. The advantage of using this approach is that some types

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Posted in: Software/Apps | Tools/Utils | Unix/Linux | Windows

April 30, 2007

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XPde: Make Your Linux Desktop Look Like XP

New users often face problems understanding the Linux desktop environment when they start using it, the problem grows to become a challenge when they have no prior understanding of Linux. Many quit using Linux after few weeks of numerous attempts to get used to the desktop environment, needless to say the desktop of XP is much simpler than Linux. XPde is a desktop environment for Linux (on x86) which makes it look like the desktop of XP system. It does

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April 27, 2007

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Remote Boot Diskless Clients in Linux with DRBL

DRBL is a small piece of software using which you will be able to use your old hardware to remote boot into a central Linux server and perform several tasks with ease. Specially useful for large networks where lots of diskless clients can perform variety of tasks, can also be used at your home for pure learning purpose too. DRBL [Diskless Remote Boot in Linux] is one of its kind of software that uses distributed hardware resources and makes it

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Posted in: Tools/Utils | Unix/Linux

April 19, 2007

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How To: Run Internet Explorer on Linux

Yes, this post will show you a small tool/script that will let you run IE on Linux machines. The script is called IEs4Linux and can run IE 5/5.5/6 and IE 7 in beta mode on a linux system (or any OS running Wine). This is very helpful for those individuals who want to test their applications on different browsers and also for those who run IE specific applications or work on websites that are functional only in IE. Thankfully, the

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Posted in: Tools/Utils | Unix/Linux

March 18, 2007

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How To: Create Your Own Linux Distribution

That’s right! It will be your own Linux distribution that you can name after yourself or any one else. If you have not heard about it already, it’s called LFS [Linux From Scratch] project that will let you create your own Linux distribution. What are the advantages of LFS? Learn the internals of Linux: If you are new to Linux, you will find it very useful. Creating your Linux distribution will teach you a lot about how Linux works internally.

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March 18, 2007

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How To: Access Linux Partitions from Windows Explorer

Have you installed Linux and Windows on the same machine? Do you want to access your Linux partitions from Windows? People who are still in the process of learning Linux will find this software very handy that lets you access the Linux partitions from within the Windows Explorer. The software is called “Ext2 Installable File System For Windows“, is under 500KB in size and free! Features of Ext2 Installable File System For Windows Supports Windows NT4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP

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