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Drupal is maybe the most powerful CMS platform out there, but how many times you find yourself using a rifle to kill a fly? If you only need a simple blogging platform, and you are looking from some Drupal options, you may be interested in Jekyll.

After one month of the first delivered Chromebook, I still do not see too much uses for this operating system. It's biggest feature (all in the cloud) could be its disadvantage.

If you have a big music collection, and you want to have it in only one place, and be able to listen to it using Linux, Windows or Mac clients. Use mt-Daap Linux server. Slackware in this case.

Is it too late for MeeGo? or the upcoming release of the Nokia N9 will give it the needed impulse?.

The world needs an Open Source mobile platform, and not only closed ones.

Unfortunately I had to keep working with Windows because of my need for some software that lacks on support for Linux, that simple fact was driving me crazy.... ...I hope this is the day I can say Good by Microsoft Windows, hope to never see you again...

Is Gnome going to become a new Linux Distributions? here a summary of other articles about this topic, that are running around the web, trying to figure out what is going to happen.

How Nginx+Varnish compare to Nginx alone? Nginx: Is a Webserver with great performance when serving static files. Varnish: Is a HTTP accelarator, that can be put in front of any webserver, including Nginx, but how it can help Nginx? Here you will find some tests, that will give an idea about the answer of that question.

Is Ubuntu going to loose users/fans, because of Unity maybe in favor of Linux Mint?. Is really Linux Mint experimenting with Debian, because Ubuntu is changing too many things? This post explores a little about Unity, Ubuntu and Linux Mint, the conclusions are yours.

The writer prefer KDE over Gnome, but: "Why KDE? I don't know... I sat down once and decided to put all the pros and contras of KDE and GNOME in one list. Result was quite strange... Kubuntu had same number of "pros" and "contras" on KDE side. While GNOME only gave me "pros" and no significant "contra". So, there is something irrational which makes me to choose KDE when I boot my laptop."

To me is just a matter of your own likes, but what do you think?

If you have a big collection of music, you can’t have in all your computers, so you’d better have it only in one of them and share it with the others. There are a lot of ways to do that, you can use Samba, NFS, or other means to share you drive with others, and thus your music collection, but a better way IMHO, is to share it using a streaming server.

Distributive of Porteus Linux is very light. It weights under 300 MB. You can either burn it to CD, or extract files from .iso image and copy them to your USB drive. Like in SLAX, there are 2 files in the distributive which can make your USB bootable: one for Windows users and one for Linux. I found a small issue there, because Linux-oriented file (.sh) is not marked as executable, and I could not make it executable. Neither chmod nor Midnight Commander options helped. Anyway, I have Windows XP for some reasons, so .bat file was used. Finally I got bootable USB drive with Porteus system in it. Reboot. Choose to boot from USB. Let's go!

You can do a lot of think through ssh, you can play music, you can execute remote commands, you can mount disks, and a long etc. Here you will find some of my favorite tips.

I use rsync a lot specially to backup my important files between two computers, but also to keep my local slackware repository up to date. rsync is great to keep folders and files synchronized between two computers or in the same computer, you can backup all your important data to an external disk using rsync.

Three videos about how to insert page numbering in OpenOffice, Koffice, and Abiword. All instructions given, all in video with spoken instructions (English) I have recently published a post regarding page numbering in Open Source Office applications. This time I will repeat the same post in slightly different manner. There are video lessons showing process of document editing.

A side by side comparison of Windows 7 and Alt Linux KDE. Using this low specs computer, you may guess the results, do you?

Read the full article to find out the details.

...Do you use Linux? Have you ever heard of OpenOffice.org? If you answered “yes” to first question and “no” to second, you are really rare individual!...

This is somehow my personal classification, of Linux distributions. And maybe at the same time of the Linux users. I’m going to classify only those I have used more than just a few hours in a virtual machine.

Debian 6.0 Squeeze, will be released on February 5th or 6th, to be ready for that event. Here the installation screenshots, using the graphical interface of the CD1. Also in the article, some security tips.

....Following on from above, we now have a target date of the weekend of 5th and 6th February for the release. We have checked with core teams, and this seems to be acceptable for everyone....

I think Arch Linux, Slackware and maybe in a slightly different level Gentoo, are some kind of advanced Linux distribution, or better said for intermediate to advanced Linux user. I like to say that those distributions are for Linux lovers, people who is not afraid of the command line. I’m that kind of person, I like to be in control of my Operating System, and one thing I really like about Slackware and Arch Linux is that you need to enable the daemons, this way no matter how many of them you install in your computer it is still running light weight. Of course if you use Fedora or Ubuntu you can disable the daemons, but I prefer to be the one that enable them, and not the other way.