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Read your RSS feeds on your Linux desktop with Liferea

RSS has become such a common source of information for us information junkies. Whether you are following Ghacks via RSS, your favorite news site, or your favorite blog, it’s nice to be able to get all of those feeds centralized on your desktop.
For Linux there are plenty of possible RSS feed readers. One of my [...]

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Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Online Services, Open Source, The Web, Tutorials Basic, software

GNOME Office: Is it a viable office suite?

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 [...]

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Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, software

Set up a Gnumed backend server

Recently I covered the front-end of the Gnumed software designed for the medical industry (see “Let your medical practice go open source with Gnumed.”) In that article I showed you how to start working with Gnumed, but limited the installation to using the public servers. Because these public servers can not safely and securely hold [...]

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Categories: Linux, Open Source, Server, Tutorials Advanced, software

Basic postgresql server setup

So many tool require databases. If you are a web administrator or a company with large stores of information, then you know the importance of databases. One of the most oft-used databases available is MySQL. But that is not the only player on the court. Another cross platform object-relational database management tool is PostgreSQL. Many [...]

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Categories: Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Advanced, software

Install OpenGoo for in house collaboration tools

Do you use Google for your collaboration tools? Gmail? Google Documents? Contacts? Although the Google suite is a very nice suite of tools that has grown exponentially in popularity, there is something to be said about keeping your collaboration tools in-house. There are plenty of tools that will allow you to set up such a [...]

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Categories: Linux, Online Services, Open Source, The Web, Tutorials Basic, Web Development, software

Apache troubleshooting tips

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 [...]

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Categories: Advice, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Server, The Web, Tutorials Basic, Web Development

Mandriva 2010 installation walk through

Mandriva is another one of the Linux distributions that has been around for quite some time. Beginning as Mandrake Linux, the company MandrakeSoft was forced to change its name when sued by the Hearst Corporation because of the claims that Mandrake Linux was inspired by their comic character “Mandrake the Magician”. So the change in [...]

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Categories: Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Tutorials Basic, software

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