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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For users new to the Linux operating system, nothing beats installing applications with the graphical Add/Remove Software applications found in the main menu of your desktop. But sometimes that ever-so-user-friendly GUI isn’t an option. Once such instance would be a headless server with no graphical desktop. Or maybe you’ve found a particular applicaiton that is [...]

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