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Installing CentOS from livecd

  • litosteel; By litosteel (Posted by litosteel on Dec 31, 2010 1:27 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
Many times i download live cd distros to preview and install them, but sometimes the livecd does not have an installer, even the official site says that this cd cannot be installed, thats the case with CentOS 5.5 livecd. Well i did install it, with "some assembly required" but i did it, this are my notes to make this process "easy" to you.

Mozilla upsets net world order with Bing on Firefox

The Firefox 4 search toolbar will offer Microsoft Bing as an alternative to Google, as Mozilla takes another step towards its traditional nemesis — and apparently hedges its bets against its traditional sugar daddy. As Mozilla announced this morning with a blog post, the latest English-language version of Mozilla's open source browser — due for release in November — will retain Google as the default search engine. But for the first time, Bing will be listed in the pull-down that lets you change the default. Google will be first on the menu. Yahoo! — now powered by Bing — will be second. And Bing will be third.

How not to play with "Open" license.

  • LXer; By Lito Steel (Posted by litosteel on Apr 27, 2009 10:55 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
Maybe it is just in my mind, but some new Linux Distributors cannot redact good license terms for their works. Even some of them have written license too narrow (in excess from my point of view) that they look like the one of an infamous Proprietary OS...