Until a couple of months ago, I didn’t know much about dual-booting. Yes, I knew it meant running two OS’s on one machine but beyond that, not much else. So when I decided to go ahead and set up a dual boot on my laptop, I definitely needed help.
I got it in the form of [...]

Tags: dual-boot, Linux, tutorials, Windows
Categories: Knowledge, Linux, Operating Systems, Tutorials Basic

ATutor is an open source Content Managment System (CMS) focused on education and the class room.  If you think about it, a CMS is the perfect springboard for the creation of a tool designed to manage a class. With a CMS you get: Communication, Content management, file storage, feedback, FAQ, forums, news and announcements, and [...]

Tags: class management, classroom, course management, Linux
Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Server, The Web, Tools, Tutorials Basic, software

If you are an administrator then you know what a hostname is. If you are not an administrator then you should know the hostname of a computer is the name which a network attached device is known. Unless you have manually changed your hostname, or set it up during installation, your hostname will most likely [...]

Tags: hostname, Linux, setting hostname
Categories: Advice, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Server, Tutorials Basic

I read a lot of news. One of the many ways I read news is via RSS feeds. If you don’t know, RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. What an RSS reader does is collect summaries of news feeds from your favorite sites and places them in a simple, easy to read format. Most RSS [...]

Tags: console applications, Linux, rss, rss readers
Categories: Linux, Open Source, The Web, Tutorials Basic, Uncategorized

Linux Mint is an operating system that is used on PCs for production of elegant, up to date and comfortable GNU/Linux desktop distribution. It is quite easy to use compared to other operating systems.
When Linux Mint was originally launched, it was a version of Ubuntu that offered integrated media codecs. Founded and developed by [...]

Tags: Linux, linux distribution, linux mint, operating system, ubuntu
Categories: Linux, Operating Systems

How many ways can you install Linux? Quite a few. You can install via:

CD
DVD
Flash Drive
Network Installation

or…

InstaLinux

Technically InstaLinux is really just another way of doing a network installation. InstaLinux is a web-based service that allows you to choose some of the specifics of what you want on your installation and then it creates an ISO image [...]

Tags: instalinux, install linux, Linux, operating system
Categories: Advice, Linux, Online Services, Open Source, Operating Systems, The Web, Tutorials Basic, software

If you are learning about the stars in school, an amateur sky watcher, or a meteorologist in the making you need to know your stars. To really see the stars you can visit a real planetarium, you can break out your serious telescope, or you can install and fire up a desktop application like Stellarium.
Stellarium [...]

Tags: constellations, education software, Linux, planetarium, stars
Categories: Linux, Open Source, software