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by Rom Feria on December 16, 2006
I wrote about NVidia's support for Linux a few weeks ago and hoped that ATI will follow suit. Guess what? They just released a new Linux driver. Michael Larabol just wrote a short review of the...
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by Rom Feria on December 14, 2006
Linux.com's Nathan Willis wrote a short review of the top Linux photo managers. Whilst I wish that there is a Linux port of Apple's iPhoto, Google's Picasa, albeit non-open source, seems...
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by Rom Feria on December 12, 2006
Linus Torvalds officially commits virtualization component to 2.6 kernel. Kernel-based Virtual Machine for Linux (KVM) bested other solutions such as Xen and OpenVZ by officially getting included in...
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Rob Williams of TechGage has written an article on the top 10 free linux games. The criteria are as follows: So how does a game make this top 10 list? Well, from 10 - 1, they have all been......
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by Rom Feria on December 10, 2006
If you are like me who loves watching TV, movie and other video clips on my computer, you will find VLC a constant companion. VLC is a free/open source software for video playback. It supports...
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by Rom Feria on December 09, 2006
Cory Doctorow, writer/journalists who switched from Mac OS X to Linux, recommends this book, "Ubuntu Linux for Non-Geeks", saying: It reads like one of David Pogue's excellent Missing...
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by Rom Feria on December 09, 2006
Linux is known to be highly stable and reliable. Personally, I have proven this several times already pitting Linux against Windows-based servers. Let's have some fun today and see who has the...
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We have Ubuntu Dapper Drake (6.06) that comes with Long Term Support (LTS) and Ubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10) that comes with "upstart", the sysvinit init daemon replacement. The next version,...
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by Rom Feria on December 09, 2006
linux users, specially those coming from Windows, are often not familiar with how processes or jobs or running applications are prioritized. Linix schedules an application's execution depending...
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When I was still using Windows XP (eons ago) for games, my computer setup is always dual-boot with Linux. However, there are times that I need write-access to the NTFS partition from Linux and it...
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by Rom Feria on December 07, 2006
We all know that Linux is one of the most secure modern operating systems available in the market today. However, it is still possible to improve or "harden" its security and this is where...
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Filed in archive by tammy on December 06, 2006
Wow! That was fast! We have a new Linux blogger for you, so keep a look out over here. As soon as we whip him into shape, he'll be blogging away for you Linux fans over here. Thank you to......
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Filed in archive by tammy on December 03, 2006
In love with Linux? Are you the master of your Lunix domain? Then consider blogging for Creative Weblogginat at this blog. We will help grow your online reputation, establish you as a thought leader -...
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