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This article will show you how to install Debian and Fluxbox with the basic programs to have a light weight Linux running either on your Laptop or Desktop computer.

Nmap is a must have tool for network administrators, it helps to discover computers in the network, see what services they are offering (ports open), works with TCP and UDP, and on this article you will see its command line form and also two GUI front ends, with a lot of options, and screen shots

This is a how-to use aptoncd, a great tool, to use when you have no, or limited Internet Access, take all the installed packages on your tuned Debian / Ubuntu machine with you, for new installations. You can create CD or DVD or just use it as an ISO image on your USB memory.

I think, that Linux users make no good to Linux saying constantly that Vista or XP are bad Operating Systems, and even worse, fighting about which Linux distribution is better, I think we should focus on showing how Linux do things good, and improving those things Linux is not good at yet. Let the Operating System Battle be a battle between companies Like Canonical, RedHat or Microsoft.

LaTeX is good way to present neat and clean documents, it is easy to format documents, you just take care of the text while LaTeX take care of the format.

Quick and simple comparison of the new version of Firefox (Firefox 3 Beta) and Firefox 2, showing some of the differences between them and using Screen shots.

How-to about sudoers file to give permission to some users to act as if they were others, or to execute command they, usually do not have permission to.

Check here some examples of useful uses of the Linux find command, them could also be combined to have other options.

Looking Glass is another 3D Windows manager for Linux, it comes from SUN and it is based on Java, here is how to install it on Debian Etch, the same apply for Ubuntu.

Seven Wonders of the Linux World, there should be more than seven, but to keep it short, here are only seven, maybe not the most important for some people.

This is the second part to improve even more your browsing speed on slow networks, this time is a personal proxy, or home proxy who will do the trick.

If you have a slow Internet connection, like a congested ADSL or a Dial Up connection, you may be interesting in this article, so you can speed up a little your browsing experience.

Fail2ban is a phyton tool, that parsing the log files of your system can determine which IPs are trying to log in any service with no success, and the ban that IP for the time you configured

xnest, is a powerful utility that lets you log in a nested X session while still logged in the original one, useful to test KDE while still logged on Gnome or any other use you may find to it.

If for any reason you need to move your /home directory to its own partition, here you will find how to do it, this will be useful in a lot of situation, because, you run out of disk space, or because you need to reinstall your system, or because you need to have a dual boot system with two Linux distros, sharing the same home directory

Review of two of the most featured terminal emulators, for both Gnome and KDE. Multi-Gnome-Terminal and QuadKonsole, both of them let you open multiple terminal windows, on the same screen.

If you are having problems to upgrade your Ubuntu to Gutsy Gibbon because of this error: "current dist not found in meta-release" Read this "How-to" to solve it, maybe will not work for everybody.

Some days ago, I posted about Foleo a Linux based Palm equipment, which was intended to be a palm companion so users, could have access to the content in their palms, using a QWERTY keyboard and a big screen. Yesterday at Palm's official blog, appeared this announcement where they say they are going to "cancel the Foleo mobile companion product in its current configuration"

Lots of the task your Linux machine are controlled by the time, things like cron jobs, emails' Date, file's dates, so it is really important to have your computer's clock on time.

Here you can see a comparison side-by-side of the installation steps of XP, Vista and Feisty, see how Ubuntu is easier to install from scratch that Windows.