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The Ubuntu Software Center is a virtual catalog of thousands of free   applications available for Ubuntu — software to make your computer more useful.  You can find applications by category or by searching, and you can install an application with the click of a button.     The Software Center also lets you examine the applications installed on the    computer already,and remove those you no

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Modern computers do have internal clocks called Real Time Clock chips (RTC) that provide time and date information. These chips are battery backed so that even during power outages, they can maintain time but personal computers are not designed to be perfect clocks. Their design has been optimized for mass production and low-cost rather than maintaining accurate time. For many applications, this

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This tutorial provides instructions on upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 (code name “Karmic Koala”), the most recent release of Ubuntu, released on the 29th of October 2009. 1. First and foremost, you need to backup all your important files. 2. Next, make sure the repository is updated: sudo apt-get update 3. Open the Update Manager with this command: sudo update-manager -d If there are any updates to

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As everybody knows that Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic koala has been released, bellow a quick video for the new features on ubuntu 9.10 karmic koala. Ubuntu software center a quick view

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Why doesn’t Ubuntu  support MP3 ‘out of the box’? Ubuntu cannot include support for MP3 or DVD video playback or recording. MP3 formats are patented, and the patent holders have not provided the necessary licenses. Ubuntu also excludes other multimedia software due to patent, copyright, or license restrictions, such as Adobe Flash Player and RealNetworks RealPlayer. That doesn’t mean you can’t

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The main objective is to let users boot their machines with bare minimal requirements on their side, and boot.kernel.org will handle most of the problem that user may face in booting. All that user needs is Internet connectivity and a small program (gpxe) to boot the machine. This gpxe program provides network booting facility. You can download these program from site (available at Downloads

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Bombono DVD is easy to use program for making DVD video discs. This program allows you to get video on optical discs without knowing many technical details. It provides the full authoring sequence: making chapters while browsing videos, custom menu creation, authoring, and optionally burning on DVD. Also, it features the interesting feature of re-authoring, which allows one to get video back from

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The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide is both a reference and a tutorial on shell scripting. This comprehensive book (the equivalent of 974 print pages) covers almost every aspect of shell scripting. It contains 364 profusely commented illustrative examples, a number of tables, and a cross-linked index/glossary. Not just a shell scripting tutorial, this book also provides an introduction to basic

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Virtually all applications running on Linux do some sort of IO. Even surfing the web produces a great number of small files that are written to disk. Without an IO scheduler, every time there is an IO request, there is an interrupt to the kernel and the IO operation is performed. Perhaps more importantly, over time the disparity in the performance of disk drives and the rest of the system has

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In software testing, stress test refers to tests that put a greater emphasis on robustness, availability, and error handling under a heavy load, rather than on what would be considered correct behavior under normal circumstances. In particular, the goals of such tests may be to ensure the software doesn't crash in conditions of insufficient computational resources (such as memory or disk space),

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Not sure what Linus is trying to say here :) Does is really means a "thumbs up for Windows 7"? Source: http://www.linuxinsight.com/

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VIRT stands for the virtual size of a process, which is the sum of memory it is actually using, memory it has mapped into itself (for instance the video card's RAM for the X server), files on disk that have been mapped into it (most notably shared libraries), and memory shared with other processes. VIRT represents how much memory the program is able to access at the present moment. RES stands

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HANDLE WITH CARE Since 2.6, there has been a way to tune how much Linux favors swapping out to disk compared to shrinking the caches when memory gets full. ghoti adds: "When an application needs memory and all the RAM is fully occupied, the kernel has two ways to free some memory at its disposal: it can either reduce the disk cache in the RAM by eliminating the oldest data or it may swap some

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Debian (.deb) packages are the packages that are used in Ubuntu. You can install any .deb package in your system. .deb files can generally be installed from your file manager (Nautilus) merely by clicking on them, since file associations with the default installer is already set in Ubuntu. These instructions are for those who wish to install packages from the command-line terminal (Terminal).

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Yet another good use of Linux Source: http://www.androidtux.co.cc/?p=336

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IPwatchD is simple daemon that uses libpcap to detect IP conflict on Linux. It can be configured to listen on one or more interfaces (alias interfaces are also supported) in active or passive mode. In active mode IPwatchD protects your host before IP takeover by answering Gratuitous ARP requests received from conflicting system. In passive mode it just records information about conflict through

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Following is a collection of 17 hand picked OpenSuse wallpapers. All the images are copyright their original authors. Please request them before using it for commercial purposes or otherwise. And here is the Huge Collection of Firefox Wallpapers techhead89 deviantdark firheruwen dakki000 darkslavik ratadeoz opensuse rebe gnokii jiunec mu Robert Lihm reverendted Mark

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The password policy can allow users can use the same passwords indefinitely or specify that passwords expire after a given time. In general, the longer a password is in use, the more likely it is to be discovered. If passwords expire too often, however, users may have trouble remembering them and resort to writing their passwords down. A common policy is to have passwords expire every 30 to 90

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Ubuntu Linux is a multi-user multi-tasking operating system. This means that multiple users can simultaneously use Ubuntu at the same time. This is a video which explains step by step how to add a new user in Ubuntu Linux.

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lshw (HardWare LiSter) is a small tool for Linux to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc. It currently supports DMI (x86 only), OpenFirmware device tree (PowerPC only), PCI/AGP, ISA PnP (x86), CPUID (x86), IDE/ATA/

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Desktop aggregators are great.  They sit there all day, pinging away at sites, and as soon as they notice something new, they pop up little windows on your desktop, and let you read items.  But what about when you go home from work?  Or what about when you are on a trip?  You get totally out of sync, and don't know what you've read and haven't read.  You are enraged. A server side aggregator

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Lin-X is an OS based off of the most popular Linux distribution, Ubuntu. Lin-X looks like Mac OSX and shares many of the same features. With Lin-X you get the security and stability of Ubuntu with the feel of OSX. Because Lin-X is based off of Ubuntu it shares the same repositories and update manager, along with the support cycles. Unlike other Linux distributions Lin-X comes jam-packed with

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You can help spread the word for openSUSE 11.2 before it’s released! The openSUSE project now has countdown banners that display the number of days before the next openSUSE release. You can display the banner on your site, and the rendering is done via the openSUSE server. You can find the code and the right language for your site onhttp://en.opensuse.org/Countdown. You can link the banner to

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Wine is a translation layer (a program loader) capable of running Windows applications on Linux and other POSIX compatible operating systems. Windows programs running in Wine act as native programs would, running without the performance or memory usage penalties of an emulator, with a similar look and feel to other applications on your desktop. Wine benefits     * Wine makes it possible to take

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Adobe Technologies released the Linux version of Adobe AIR some time ago, Adobe® AIR runtime enables you to have your favorite web applications with you all the time. Since applications built for Adobe AIR run on your desktop computer without a web browser, they provide all the convenience of a desktop application. Companies like eBay and AOL are using Adobe AIR to create exciting new

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