In the wake of Ubuntu’s 9.10 release, many distributions were forgotten. But one distribution, in particular, keeps getting better and better under the radar. That distribution? Fedora. Just this week Fedora 12 was released, brining some serious improvements not only to the cutting edge distribution, but to Linux in general.
Upon installation you might not immediately [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Nov 18th, 2009
- Comments: 1
Major improvements with Fedora 12
With Ubuntu 9.10 Arrives Wubi 9.10
The Ubuntu development team has just released a new version of their Linux distribution to the public. Ubunutu 9.10 follows the usual bi-annual release cycle. It introduces updates all over the board including a “a redesigned, faster boot and login experience, a revamped audio framework and improved 3G broadband connectivity”. A Ubuntu Server and Ubuntu [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Oct 17th, 2009
- Comments: 8
Five handy secure shell tips and tricks
I use secure shell a LOT, every day. So much so that I often take for granted how important this tool is. Not only does it allow me to log into remote machines to handle management of said machine, it can do other things as well – X tunneling being one of the most useful features. But [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Oct 6th, 2009
- Comments: 47
What makes Ubuntu so user friendly?
Of all the Linux distributions, the consensus is beginning to become clear that Ubuntu is, hands down, the most user friendly of the Linux distributions. Naturally there are people that claim other distributions like PCLinuxOS, and Linux Mint are even more user-friendly than Ubuntu. But what exactly makes a Linux distribution user-friendly?
I have been using Linux [...]
Want To Impress Your Friends? Run Chrome OS
We have all read the news that Google is planning to enter the operating system market with their soon to be released Google Chrome OS which is initially targeting the netbook market. Google Chrome OS is based on Google’s web browser Google Chrome and a Linux kernel. Little information are know as of yet. The [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Aug 11th, 2009
- Comments: 6
The Linux screensaver xscreensaver
Most of us go away from our computers. When we do we don’t much care to come back to see our screen just the way we left it. We have been trained that a screensaver should take the place of our work or our play on our monitors. I have been asked numerous times “How [...]
Download and install Ubuntu faster with a Minimal CD
I recently found the need to install Ubuntu on a machine with a poor CD drive (and no USB ports) that could not read large amounts of data, but could manage to read smaller amounts of data. As such, the machine could not read the 700MB but could read smaller amounts, like 10MB.
I found a [...]
