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Johnboy’s Ubuntu Tip #1, How to create su account.

20 09 2006

Being a long time Debian user I got used to using the su command when I wish to run as root. Ubuntu uses sudo by default. To enable su, type in the terminal # sudo passwd root , you’ll be prompted for a new unix password. Now you can use the su command to run as root.

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Linux on Laptops

20 09 2006

Reports and resources for running Linux on a notebook or laptop computer.

Linux on Laptops

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Powernowd Frequency Scaling Daemon

20 09 2006

How to configure powernowd – Linux ThinkPad Wiki

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Brief interview with Mark Shuttleworth

20 09 2006

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Ten Powerful Linux Commands December 4, 2009

Many Linux commands are powerful, and any user would do well to know them. Below are ten such commands, all simple in nature but powerful in their usefulness. The method in which they are executed will depend on the Linux system used.

7 Instances of KDE Appearances On The Silver Screen December 3, 2009

I don't know about you, but when ever a computer screen appears in a movie or series I instantly focus on the interface, trying to glean what they have installed on the device. Even better, when possible, I pause and try to analyze and read the damn thing. Here, I dugg up 7 instances of KDE appearances on the silver screen.

Linux Could Even Look Like Windows If It Wanted To December 3, 2009

A young Linux enthusiast that goes by the name PhrankDaChicken has created a script that will fully theme your Ubuntu desktop into an XP one.

MS Internet Explorer finally dethroned in Germany! December 2, 2009

For the first time since 1996, the InternetExplorer browser family is no longer dominating the German Internet landscape. 4 slides that show the development of browser marketshare and how the impact of new IE versions got weaker by every version.

VirtualBox 3.1 adds live migration and branched snapshots December 1, 2009

The latest version of VirtualBox delivers some compelling new features, including support for live migration and branched snapshots. Migration capabilities reflect VirtualBox's potential for ascending into the enterprise arena.

Linux Mint 8 “Helena” released! November 29, 2009

The team is proud to announce the stable release of Linux Mint 8 Helena.

The Incredible Guide to NEW Ubuntu (Karmic Koala) [PDF] November 26, 2009

With the release of a new Ubuntu (Linux for human beings) distribution, Karmic Koala, we felt it was time to go back to the roots and beyond. This guide that’s both great for Linux initiates, and Linux intermediates. Over 50 pages of cool copy-paste tutorials and hacks, it belongs in the virtual library of every Linux user!

Google Partners with Canonical for Chrome OS November 24, 2009

Rather than seeing Google's Chrome operating system as competing with Linux desktop distributions, Canonical is working with Google to make the OS.

OMG! UBUNTU!: Docky Gains Panel Mode, Network Docklet & More November 23, 2009

Docky gained a sleek new panel mode and a network manager docklet in an update to users of the Docky PPA yesterday.

Chromium OS Source released November 19, 2009

I noticed that the source released happened during the webcast, so go get it now!Getting and building:http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/building-chromium-os

Slashdot: Linux

Why Open Source Phones Still Fail

adeelarshad82 writes "Truly open-development, open-source phones like the Nokia N900 will never hit the mainstream in the US because wireless carriers in the country hate the unexpected, writes PCMag's Sascha Segan. The open-source philosophy is all about unexpected, disruptive ideas bubbling upwards, and that drives network planners nuts. So, you […]

Soulskill

Introducing L2Ork, World's First Linux Laptop Orchestra

Agram writes "Take a netbook, Wiimotes, Nunchuks, and hemispherical speakers (which were once IKEA salad bowls), toss it up with some Ubuntu goodness and what you get is Virginia Tech's L2Ork, the world's first Linux-based laptop orchestra. With its affordable design and support from the Linux community, L2Ork hopes to bring laptop orchestras […]

timothy

Is Linux Documentation Lacking?

eldavojohn writes "A number of blog posts are surfacing that are calling out the helpful open source community on their documentation. No, not the documentation for the highly skilled technical people, but the documentation from beginner to apprentice. A two-part series by Carla Schroeder lists bad documentation as 'Linux Bug #1' and advises u […]

CmdrTaco

Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released

diegocg writes "Linus Torvalds has officially released the version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel. New features include virtualization memory de-duplication, a rewrite of the writeback code faster and more scalable, many important Btrfs improvements and speedups, ATI R600/R700 3D and KMS support and other graphic improvements, a CFQ low latency mode, tracin […]

CmdrTaco

Ethics of Releasing Non-Malicious Linux Malware?

buchner.johannes writes "I was fed up with the general consensus that Linux is oh-so-secure and has no malware. After a week of work, I finished a package of malware for Unix/Linux. Its whole purpose is to help white-hat hackers point out that a Linux system can be turned into a botnet client by simply downloading BOINC and attaching it to a user accoun […]

kdawson

Archos Releases Dev Edition Firmware For Tablets

Charbax writes "While Archos' current 'Archos 5 Internet Tablet with Android' is a 4.8" WVGA tablet that runs Android 1.5 (and perhaps 2.0 soon with the full Google Marketplace Experience), users of last year's 4.8" and 7" Archos Linux tablets have been complaining that Archos' firmware updates to its proprietary, […]

Soulskill

Google Eliminates Gizmo5 Client For Linux

cuttheredwire writes "Evidence on the Gizmo5 forum (login required) confirms that since Google's takeover of Gizmo5, only the Windows, Mac, and iPhone clients are available for download from the official Web page. The Linux download link no longer works. This is a potential problem for happy Linux users with paid-up credit in their Gizmo5 accounts […]

kdawson

Ubuntu Reaching Out To 16,000 Anime Lovers

shadowmage13 writes "After months of planning, I am happy to announce finally that the Ubuntu Massachusetts Local Community Team will be preparing a booth at the upcoming 2010 Anime Boston convention. We need support from the community to secure a booth and print materials, including copies of the Ubunchu! manga. I really believe the Anime fandom is a p […]

kdawson

US Air Force Buying Another 2,200 PS3s

bleedingpegasus sends word that the US Air Force will be grabbing up 2,200 new PlayStation 3 consoles for research into supercomputing. They already have a cluster made from 336 of the old-style (non-Slim) consoles, which they've used for a variety of purposes, including "processing multiple radar images into higher resolution composite images (kno […]

Soulskill

Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize?

An anonymous reader writes "I'm as much of a Linux fanboy as anyone else, but I've never thought of anything in computing as being worth a Nobel Peace Prize. Apparently, there are those who take global collaboration seriously, though..." The suggestion has been bouncing around the Portland Linux community, where Torvalds lives. Is it wort […]

kdawson

LinuxQuestions.org

Major help December 5, 2009

I am in a beginning Linux class and need a ton of help. Anyone interested in helping me learn this over the weekend? Just basics for this class.

drmrrc

Script that copies files/folders doesn't work December 5, 2009

Hello, I recently signed up at Linode, deployed Ubuntu and installed Apache, Mysql and PHP5. I'd actually made the change from a shared server to a vps in order to make an add-on for OsCommerce...

Archosz

command thread help December 5, 2009

If /etc/passwd is backed up every week, what will be the command to display the changes between the backed up version and the current file?

drmrrc

LXer: Reality Check: Novell's SUSE Linux Sales December 5, 2009

Published at LXer: Novell announced quarterly results on December 3. So how are the companys individual solutions groups performing particularly the SUSE Linux solutions group? And whats the...

LXer

Install issue with Ubuntu. Help! December 5, 2009

Ok. I want Ubuntu as my other OS. Actually I want it to be my main OS but... I am having trouble installing my Ubuntu 8.10. I installed it from Windows first because it told me I have that option...

BigEmpty

Webmin error Failed to save SSL option December 5, 2009

I have been using web min for some time now but I can't out why I can't get webmin to use SSL login on a fresh install of fedora 12. I think that I have every thing installed correctly but when I try...

mikesjays

Full Featured Distro for 32GB Flash Drive December 5, 2009

Hey guys, I just recently got myself a patriot xporter xt 32gig usb drive. Plan was to allocate about 20gb of it for Linux, around 5 for windows readyboost and the rest for just "space"...

neuphoria

Please Help Fix My Corrupt Wedding JPEGs December 5, 2009

I'll keep the story short. We hired a wedding photographer that was very arrogant and said he was basically the grandmaster of all photographers in Western PA. He's an old snake that may have been...

waterloggedsocks

How to ssh between two machines on a "home network" December 5, 2009

Hello, This is probably a straightforward problem, but I can't seem to find a solution which addresses my problem exactly. I have a normal home broadband connection, with a wireless router and a...

pmw

Debian Lenny Random SCSI Errors December 4, 2009

What happens: A SCSI drive randomly seems to corrupt, but a reboot fixes it. Parts of log files relevant. Code: --------- /var/log/debug: sd 0:0:2:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: f3 00 10 08 ---------

jmoschetti45

Slashdot: Interviews

Ask Sam Ramji About the CodePlex Foundation

This week the Codeplex Foundation announced its first project, the ASP.NET Ajax Library Project, as part of its first sponsored gallery, the ASP.NET Gallery. The CodePlex Foundation is now two months old, and Foundation President Sam Ramji has agreed to answer questions about the Foundation, its first project, and overall progress to date. Usual Slashdot int […]

ScuttleMonkey

Blizzard Answers Your Questions and More

Last week we asked for interview questions to help supplement our face-to-face interviews at Blizzcon. Over the course of the two-day con we were able to sit down with StarCraft II's Dustin Browder, Diablo III's Leonard Boyarsky, WoW's J. Allen Brack, and Battle.net expert Rob Pardo to answer a few questions on each of the four major camps in […]

ScuttleMonkey

Ask Blizzard About Starcraft2, Diablo III, WoW, or Battle.net

Well, Blizzcon 2009 is about to get underway (look for the big news from the keynote in a few hours) and given how fast it sold out I'm sure there are still many rabid fans interested in what Blizzard might have to say that don't want to shell out the $40 for Pay-Per-View access. So, to that end we have interviews scheduled tomorrow with the teams […]

ScuttleMonkey

Bethesda Speaks On Gamebryo Engine, Final Fallout 3 DLC

PsxMeUP writes "Game Observer conducted an interview with Ashley Cheng, Production Director at Bethesda. He answered questions about the Gamebryo engine, why they prefer it over other engines and the advantages it presented while making Fallout 3. Cheng also talks a bit about what inspired their designers while making Fallout 3 and what is in store for […]

Soulskill

Jazz Technical Lead Erich Gamma Answers Your Questions

Last week you asked Jazz technical lead Erich Gamma questions about Jazz or anything else in his realm of expertise. Here are his answers, along with many external links and places to continue the conversation if you are interested.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

ScuttleMonkey

Ask Jazz Technical Lead Dr. Erich Gamma

As IBM continues to build out Jazz, their community-oriented development site, technical lead Dr. Erich Gamma has offered to answer questions about Jazz or anything else in his realm of expertise. Among his many accomplishments, Erich worked with Kent Beck on the Java unit testing framework, JUnit, and was actively involved until JUnit 4. Dr. Gamma was also […]

ScuttleMonkey

CSIS Cybersecurity Commission Chairman Jim Langevin Answers Your Questions

Last week we solicited questions for US Representative Jim Langevin (D-RI), one of the chairs of the CSIS Cybersecurity Commission. Here are his answers — along with contact information for him if you want to continue the conversation.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Roblimo

Ask Cybersecurity Commission Chairman Jim Langevin About US Cybersecurity Plans

US Representative Jim Langevin (D-RI) is one of the chairs of the CSIS Cybersecurity Commission that released a comprehensive 96-page report on Dec. 8 under the title, Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency. The aim of the Commission is to help the incoming administration balance "cyberspace" security needs with civil liberties. We'd like […]

Roblimo

Blizzard Answers Your Questions, From Blizzcon

Last week we asked you to submit questions for several Blizzard employees on a wide range of issues. Since we undertook the pilgrimage to Blizzcon in person this year, we decided to use the question ideas as a guide rather than an absolute, so that it could be a little more conversational in tone. Below we have included the responses from Chris Sigaty, lead […]

ScuttleMonkey

Ask Blizzard Employees About Things That Matter

In just a few days, some of us will be making the trek to this year's Blizzcon event in Anaheim, CA. In addition to the interesting announcements, sneak peeks, and other distractions, we will be sitting down with several Blizzard employees to answer any questions you might have. So far we have scheduled some time with Chris Sigaty, lead producer on Star […]

ScuttleMonkey

HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials –

How To Compile rTorrent From SVN In Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala / Debian 5 Lenny With Magnet Link Support December 4, 2009

How To Compile rTorrent From SVN In Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala / Debian 5 Lenny With Magnet Link Support rTorrent is a popular command line based bittorrent client. It provides very powerful features yet it is very light on the system - contrary to other bittorrent clients like Vuze. There are a couple of webinterfaces for it but they are not truly need. SSH a […]

The Perfect Desktop - OpenSUSE 11.2 (GNOME) December 3, 2009

The Perfect Desktop - OpenSUSE 11.2 (GNOME) This tutorial shows how you can set up an OpenSUSE 11.2 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on […]

Install And Configure OpenLDAP On Ubuntu Karmic Koala December 3, 2009

Install And Configure OpenLDAP On Ubuntu Karmic Koala The configuration of OpenLDAP got a bit (more) complicated. cn=config is still used, but when installing the packages from the repositories only a skeleton configuration of openldap is installed. You're not asked anymore to provide a password when the package is installed and issuing the "dpkg-r […]

Virtual Mail And FTP Hosting With iRedMail And Pure-FTPd On Debian Lenny December 2, 2009

Virtual Mail And FTP Hosting With iRedMail And Pure-FTPd On Debian Lenny iRedMail is a shell script that lets you quickly deploy a full-featured mail solution in less than 2 minutes. Since version 0.5, it supports CentOS 5.x, Debian 5.x, Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu 9.04 (both i386 and x86_64). iRedMail supports both OpenLDAP and MySQL as backends for storing virt […]

The Perfect Server - Fedora 12 x86_64 [ISPConfig 2] December 1, 2009

The Perfect Server - Fedora 12 x86_64 [ISPConfig 2] This is a detailed description about how to set up a Fedora 12 server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable) with PHP5/Ruby/Python, Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, […]

Adding DNS Servers In One Step With DNS-add December 1, 2009

Adding DNS Servers In One Step With DNS-add I will present to you a nice tool called DNS-add to add DNS servers to your Unix box, it works with all Linux and Unix machines.

The Perfect Desktop - Linux Mint 8 (Helena) November 30, 2009

The Perfect Desktop - Linux Mint 8 (Helena) This tutorial shows how you can set up a Linux Mint 8 (Helena) desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works e […]

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 11.2 (LAMP) November 29, 2009

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 11.2 (LAMP) LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an OpenSUSE 11.2 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

Expanding A Root-FS November 27, 2009

Expanding A Root-FS There might be the situation, that your root filesystem runs out of space, so it has to be expanded. With filesystems other than the root filesystem this could easily be done for instance with gparted. With the root filesystem this is not possible, as gparted could only expand filesystems that are not mounted, which is impossible with the […]

The Perfect Desktop - Fedora 12 i686 (GNOME) November 26, 2009

The Perfect Desktop - Fedora 12 i686 (GNOME) This tutorial shows how you can set up a Fedora 12 desktop (GNOME) that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even […]

LXer Linux News

Reality Check: Novell's SUSE Linux Sales

Novell announced quarterly results on December 3. So how are the company’s individual solutions groups performing — particularly the SUSE Linux solutions group? And what’s the latest with Novell’s partner efforts? The VAR Guy got some perspectives from Novell Chief Marketing Officer John Dragoon. Here’s a recap.

Array

Install ChromeOS on a USB stick (For Linux)

ChromeOS Cherry(Diet Chromium OS) released with new Broadcom/Ralink support and many bugfixes! Broadcom WiFi works, but you need to wait about 5 minutes after booting to connect to a network.

Array

The kernel column by Jon Masters #81

John Masters is a Linux kernel hacker for almost 14 years, since he first attended university at the age of 13. Jon lives in Massachusetts, and works for an enterprise Linux vendor. He also writes a monthly column for Linux User & Developer…

Jon Masters

SFLC says GPL issues should not block Oracle's acquisition of Sun

Respected Free Software lawyer, Eben Moglen and the SFLC (Software Freedom Law Centre ) have sent a letter to the European Commission saying that it believes that the Commission has "underestimated the robustness the GPL has consistently demonstrated". The letter is a response to the concerns expressed in the Commission's Statement of Objectio […]

Array

Eben Moglen to European Commission: Have Faith in the GPLv2

Another voice heard on the European Commission's objection to Oracle's purchase of Sun Microsystems. This time, Eben Moglen has weighed in with an analysis of the objections related to the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2). Moglen disagrees with the commission, and says that the GPLv2 is sufficient to protect the MySQL community apart fr […]

Joe Brockmeier

5 Essential Linux Apps for Guitarists

Linux is often overlooked when it comes to music production. For a long time, there were good reasons for that. The complicated sound system, lack of professional-quality software, and limited hardware compatibility have all contributed toward a bad reputation for Linux when it comes to quality audio tools. We here at MakeTechEasier thought it was time to ta […]

Joshua Price

I want a natural gas-fueled microturbine-cooled server

Forget about the software, this is one bit of hardware I want! Anyone got a few million dollars to help me get my back bedroom green data center off the ground? :)

Bill Andad

Installing OpenVPN on Linux and Unix Systems

Installing OpenVPN is easy and platform independent. Modern Linux systems, such as SuSE, Red Hat, Debian, or Ubuntu, provide sophisticated installation and package management systems, and still offer other ways to install the software. In this two-part article we will install OpenVPN on different Linux versions and FreeBSD.

Markus Feilner

Install And Configure OpenLDAP On Ubuntu Karmic Koala

The configuration of OpenLDAP got a bit (more) complicated. cn=config is still used, but when installing the packages from the repositories only a skeleton configuration of openldap is installed. You're not asked anymore to provide a password when the package is installed and issuing the "dpkg-reconfigure slapd" only resets openldap to the ske […]

Miguel Brams

Knoppix founder Klaus Knopper interview

Linux User & Developer magazine talks to the multitalented open source pioneer, Klaus Knopper, who once said that computers are stupid, ill-designed and incompatible…

Russell Barnes

johnboy’s slackware now

Johnboy’s Ubuntu Tip #1, How to create su account.

Linux on Laptops

Powernowd Frequency Scaling Daemon

Brief interview with Mark Shuttleworth

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