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Trick: Howto "spice IceWM up" |
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Wednesday, 29 November 2006 |
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IceWM is a tiny window manager for Linux and Unix that requires far less memory and CPU power than even XFCE, a common window manager for lightweight systems. |
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Trick: URPMI quick and easy |
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Monday, 27 November 2006 |
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One of the best Mandriva specific tools is, without a doubt, urpmi. This tools allows a better and easier package management and helps to find a way out of the “dependency hell” that many inexperienced users complain about.
This article gives you an overview of the most often used options and some tricks how to use it efficiently. |
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Tip: Five things to know when you switch to Linux |
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Tuesday, 21 November 2006 |
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If you have just installed GNU/Linux on your computer, and have only ever used Windows before, here are five things you need to know to get going rapidly. On Windows, you were probably used to find a given program on the Internet, download a setup.exe file, and then install the program in something like C:Program Files. Things are very different on GNU/Linux. |
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Trick: Racoon Roadwarrior Configuration |
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Tuesday, 21 November 2006 |
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Roadwarrior is a client that uses unknown, dynamically assigned IP addresses to connect to a VPN gateway (in this case also firewall). This situation is shown on picture 1.1 and is one of the most interesting and today most needed scenarios in business environment. |
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Mandriva 2007: Back in the race |
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Friday, 03 November 2006 |
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Beginning with an easy-to-use installer and booting into a well-thought-out desktop, Mandriva 2007 provides an environment that is aesthetically consistent and makes new users feel at home. Where Mandriva 2006 failed to provide an appropriate level of support for more advanced users, Mandriva 2007 includes prominently displayed tools for configuration from the desktop. Although these tools are marred by sluggish package management and an unhelpful security rating system, as well as instability on some machines, overall Mandriva 2007 re-establishes the distribution as one of the most advanced desktop experiences in GNU/Linux. |
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Accessing Windows Resources from a Linux Desktop |
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Friday, 27 October 2006 |
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You're one of the lucky ones. Despite incredible pressures, you've somehow managed to convince your boss to let you run Linux on your workstations instead of Windows. It could be that you've already saved your organization tens of thousands of dollars by convincing them to upgrade to OpenOffice.org instead of the latest Microsoft Office, and now the company is willing to explore other possibilities. However, you are still going to have to deal with the Windows workgroup or domain and the appropriate shared files and printers. |
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Remote access Mandriva 2007 Free using FreeNX |
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Tuesday, 24 October 2006 |
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NoMachine NX is a Terminal Server and remote access solution based on a comprising set of enterprise class open source technologies. NX makes it possible to run any graphical application on any operating system across any network connection at incredible speed. |
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Running a server for small/medium enterprises |
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Wednesday, 18 October 2006 |
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This article shows how to run a file-, print-, HTTP proxy- DHCP-, and time server for small and medium enterprises (SME) on one single Debian Sarge system. It is very easy to set up, and management is done with an easy-to-use web interface called eBox so once the system is set up, you can forget about the command line. eBox was developed to administrate advanced services for corporate networks, and it was created for Debian Sarge. |
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Wednesday, 18 October 2006 |
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Was it because of a bad strategy? Was its release cycle too long? Was it the controversy over Gael Duval being fired? Or was it just the lack of quality in its latest releases? Whatever it was, it disappointed a lot of people. The once most popular Linux distribution had now fallen far behind the leading Ubuntu, Fedora and Suse. A lot of its users were moving towards PCLinuxOS. |
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