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Review - OpenSuse 10.2

Sunday, 25 February 2007
I have mixed feelings about openSUSE. On the one hand, it feels like a polished system, and that is reflected from the installation to YaST. Yet, if we take away YaST for a moment, then openSUSE looks a little weak. It feels sluggish, and has a user interface that isn't necessarily better for the user compared to a standard GNOME interface. It has the cost of deviating from the norm, while gaining very little from it. Compare it to, say, Ubuntu or perhaps even Debian, and openSUSE really doesn't stand very well.
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Mandriva One + Metisse – The Pefect Setup

Wednesday, 14 February 2007
Metisse is a window manager developped by the In Situ project. It is available under the GPL Licence. Mandriva Linux is using Metrisse in its latest Live-CD. Metisse differs from a classic 3D desktop ("the cube") in the way that it offers innovative windows interactions, thus enforcing work efficiency. It is using basic openGL commands for most of its feature and can run on entry level 3D graphic cards. This workshop describes the hard disk installation and Mandriva One setup. Additionally you wll find information how to use the Metrisse 3D Desktop.
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Make a Movie of Your Linux Desktop

Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Want to show off your snazzy 3d desktop, or demonstrate the features of your favourite new program? Make a movie of your desktop to capture all your actions, edit it, then add a soundtrack.
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Install a Mail Server with Antivirus and Antispam in 15 Minutes

Monday, 12 February 2007
This article illustrates a situation where you need to set up your own mail server (be it your home mail server, or a small office one). It actually shows that, if using an integrated service mail server, anyone can do the job, all in a matter of minutes.
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Looking Glass meets Mandriva

Friday, 19 January 2007
Looking Glass is an open source development project based on and evolved from Sun Microsystems' Advanced Development division. It supports running unmodified existing applications in a 3D space, as well as APIs for 3D window manager and application development. At the moment, existing application integration is supported for Linux and Solaris x86 platforms. The platform for 3D application development is available for Linux, Solaris and Windows platforms. Linux-Tip.net was testing the LG3D Mega-bundle which integrates all the software necessary to run lg3d. This includes the jdk, java3d and lg3d itself.
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NuFW - An authenticating firewall

Tuesday, 16 January 2007
NuFW lays on Netfilter, the state of the art IP filtering layer from the Linux kernel. It fully integrates with Netfilter and extends its capabilities. The daemons currently run on Linux and software clients are available for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD et Mac OSX. Its exclusive algorithm allows authenticated filtering even on multiuser computers.
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How to install VMWare Server 1.0.1 on Mandriva 2007

Thursday, 11 January 2007
This workshop describes how to install VMware server 1.0.1 on Mandriva 2007 64-bit systems. Additionally you will get information how to install Linux and Windows clients to access the VMWare Server. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux, Windows, BSD, etc. under a host operating system.
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VMware Workstation on Fedora Core 6

Sunday, 07 January 2007
This article describes how to install VMware Workstation on a Fedora Core 6 (i686) system. With VMware Workstation you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system.
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How to install 3D-Desktop using Beryl

Wednesday, 27 December 2006
Windows Vista provides two entirely new features to manage windows using Windows Flip and Windows Flip 3D. Linux is already using this technology. 3D-Desktop is an OpenGL program for switching virtual desktops in a seamless 3-dimensional manner on Linux. The current desktop is mapped into a full screen 3D environment where you may choose other screens. Several different visualization modes are available. Mandriva 2007 has a the 3D desktop functionality implemented. You can set it up using the Mandriva Control Centre. Unfortunately it is not always working in the first place. Depending on the installed hardware, it works out of the box but also after downloading and installing new drivers and hacking the configuration files. This workshop describes the 3D Desktop installation on Mandriva 2007 using Beryl and Nvidia graphics cards.
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