The very early stages of the REAL Google Chrome operating system has been released (and done so fully open sourced). It’s not an operating system you can (and should) be putting on a stand alone machine. Actually what has been released are VirtualBox and VMware images that can be booted in their respective virtual machines.
Martin [...]

Tags: Chrome, Google, google os, Operating Systems
Categories: Advice, Browsing, Google Chrome, Open Source, Operating Systems

I’m fairly confident that you have, at one time or another, run across an md5checksum file as you have perused the internet. Whether it was a download file or even an application upgrade, those md5 files are there for a reason. But just what is the reason?
When someone puts a file up on a server [...]

Tags: check sum, file downloads, md5, secure downloads
Categories: Advice, Hacking, Linux, Open Source, Security, Tutorials Basic

As you have most likely seen on Ghacks, there are numerous ways to keep your Linux distributions up to date. There are new systems available such as the Ubuntu Software Center (see my article “The new Ubuntu Software Center“) that make installing software a piece of cake. But even with applications such as the USC [...]

Tags: apt, KDE, packagkit, repositories
Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, software

If you’re like me (and I know you are) you have an endless assortment of passwords stored in your head. And, again, if you’re like me your age is defying your memory such that your brain isn’t always so quick to recall that endless stream of random characters you have for passwords (and you know [...]

Tags: password encryption, passwords, Security
Categories: Advice, Linux, Online Services, Open Source, Security

KDE is not a desktop that should be overlooked. Not only did it completely redefine itself upon the launch of 4.x, it has added features that have made it unique in the land of desktops. But because KDE completely re-invented itself at version 4 it’s almost as if you have to consider this a completely [...]

Tags: desktop manager, KDE, linux desktop, ubuntu
Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, software

When you think about office suites, two names come to mind: Microsoft Office and OpenOffice. There is a good reason for that – they are the two powerhouses in the field. Of course there are alternatives. For Windows there is Softmaker Office and Lotus Symphony. For the Mac there is iWork. For Linux there is [...]

Tags: Calc, excel, MS Office, office, office suite, powerpoint, presents, word, writer
Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, software

How many times have you installed a LAMP server only to find Apache doesn’t seem to want to run right? Or you install a new module only to see Apache try to download pages as file, instead of displaying them on screen?
There are a hundred and one thousand things that can go wrong with any [...]

Tags: apache, apache log, apache2, apache2ctl, log files, php
Categories: Advice, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Server, The Web, Tutorials Basic, Web Development