Posts Tagged with 'Linux'

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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Posted in: Unix/Linux

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

April 14, 2007

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8 Free Tools to Get the Most Out of Your Apple iPod

1. iPod Plug-in for Winamp » The Winamp ipod plugin is a plugin for Winamp that allows you to manage your iPod from within the Winamp media library. It supports all kinds of iPods, from the classic first generation iPods, to the iPod mini, photo, nano and shuffle and everything in between. The current release has the following features – gapless playback for iPod Nano 2G and for transcoded files, automatically eject on Winamp close, sort playlists by clicking on

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Posted in: Gadgets/Electronics | Tools/Utils | Windows

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 14, 2007

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Red Hat Launches Enterprise Linux 5

Redhat today launched much awaited version of their next release of Enterprise Linux, RHEL 5. This version had been under development since last 2 years and with lot of ideas and inputs from its users, the new release features some of the much needed technologies for making our lives more easy. This release included 1200 components which were developed in last two years and here is a quick run down of some of its features: RHEL 5 is based on

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Posted in: Industry News | Unix/Linux

February 27, 2007

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February Release: 20 Websites You Wouldn’t have Known About

Here is a list of 20 web sites that I found while casually surfing the Internet and I think they could be useful to you in some or the other way. 1. Timeticker.com – An excellent online tool for finding the current time in different countries and various time zones. Though there are other online websites for finding this out but this one is one of the simplest to use. 2. OpenLinuxRouter – Are you a small, medium size or

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