Edgy upgrade pains and fixes

Upgrading an operating system is always a chancy thing. An application can stop working, a modem can freeze up, and then, when upgrading to Ubuntu 6.10, Edgy Eft, you can lose your graphical user interface: windows, icon, mouse pointer, and all… Not good.

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Article that started KDE vs Gnome War

In this article Richard Stallman discusses the legal problems surrounding KDE and why GNOME was started, but his statements may have started the KDE vs GNOME war: “But GNOME is here, and is not going to disappear. GNOME and KDE will remain two rival desktops, unless some day they can be merged in some way. “

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My first 10 years with Linux

“I began dabbling with Linux as early as 1995, but in June of 1996, I began using it for real when I created my first Web site. Today, my Linux desktop takes care of all my personal computing needs, both at work and at play.” Here’s one man’s story of how he and Linux matured together.

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Move over Firefox: IceWeasel is HERE!

From the recent Debian vs Firefox issue, it seems like “Firefox” will eventually and slowly be faced-out on GNU/Linux platforms that adheres to “free software” philosophy. There is currently a first binary release for GNU/Linux / x86 32 bit available, as well as its corresponding source code.

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Roll Your Own Linux Firewall

Over the years I have learned how to roll my own firewall script and call it from /etc directory. Of course, my firewall is only INPUT based, instead of INPUT and OUTPUT based, but I find that building an INPUT/OUTPUT based firewall is tremendously difficult and not really all that necessary if you use good download practices on your Linux server..

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