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Many technologists use a Linux distribution as their corporate desktop or laptop solution. These users often have a few common requirements that apply to a large group of users.

LXer Feature: 18-Apr-2011

Forgive my lateness once again in getting the LXWR out to you, I am out of town and working from a family member's Mac..how does anyone get anything done on these things? No keyboard shortcuts, no right clicking, safari sucks and of course I forgot my mouse! I need some Mac lessons methinks.. Enjoy!

Latest from the Bizarre Cathedral. Because, sometimes, it's Ok when to tell a little white lie.

The Marble Team has just released Marble 1.1. This release is special! With many new features being developed during Google Code-in, the Marble Team decided to get it out between the usual KDE application releases. The new version provides several new features and improvements: Map Creation Wizard and Map Sharing OpenDesktop and Earthquakes Online Service Extended Plugin Configuration Map Editing Voice Navigation As with every Marble release, there is a feature guide with screenshots. read more

Upon the release of the first Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" Developer Preview, we had delivered early benchmarks of this Apple operating system slated for release this summer. Since then, there has been the release of Mac OS X 10.7 Developer Preview 2 (DP2) so we have carried out an updated set of Mac OS X 10.7 performance benchmarks. This also includes a comparative look at the Mac OS X Lion performance against Ubuntu Linux 10.10.

GNU/Linux is a remarkable operating system that comes with a complete development environment that is stable, reliable, and extremely powerful. The shell, being the native interface to communicate with the operating system, is capable of controlling the entire operating system. An understanding of shell scripting helps you to have better awareness of the operating system and helps you to automate most of the manual tasks with a few lines of script, saving you an enormous amount of time. Shell scripts can work with many external command-line utilities for tasks such as querying information, easy text manipulation, scheduling task running times, preparing reports, sending mails, and so on. There are numerous commands on the GNU/Linux shell, which are documented but hard to understand.

In this article we will take a look at some of the tips and tricks on working with Linux Shell Script.

With all of the new changes coming to Ubuntu I assume many users will be considering new window managers or different distributions altogether, so I decided to review some of the choices available.

This article explains how to install Zimbra Collaboration Suite 7 (ZCS) on CentOS 5.x (64Bit). Zimbra is a collaboration suite very widely used in the world. Users can share folders, contacts, schedules and other things, using a very rich web interface. One important note is that we're using CentOS 5 64bits, that is not oficially supported by Zimbra team (only RHEL and SUSE are). But CentOS works fine with Zimbra.

WriteType 1.2.130 is now available! WriteType is a word-processor designed for schools to help young students write better. It gives students who have a hard time writing an easier approach in putting their ideas on paper. The new release makes it even easier for students to succeed!

When you need to make additional tests after a false conclusion you can use if then elif statements for more options. The provides a way to create more intelligent statements.

It's just not open-source graphics programs dropping new releases this week like GIMP and Blender, but in the open-source audio editing scene there's also work taking place. The Audacity team just released version 1.3.3 of their popular audio editing application...

Acrosser announced another entry in its line of fanless vehicle PCs, this time featuring Intel's D425 or D525 Atoms. The AR-V6002FL includes CAN bus support, four serial ports, a 2.5-inch drive bay and CompactFlash slot, two Mini PCI Express slots, and an optional GPS receiver, according to the company....

Unity got its notification area (called Systray by the Ubuntu developers) back a while ago, but only for a few applications: Java apps, Mumble, Wine applications, Skype, and hp-systray. But there's an easy way to either re-enable the Systray for all applications or to whitelist a few applications you can't live without. Read on!

April in Linux land means most people are going Ubuntu crazy as Canonical's first bi-annual release of the year comes to term. I would like to take a moment to remind everyone to stop and smell the distros. Even in April there is much more to Linux than just Debian's child (and grand-children).

One of the other "big names" in the Linux world is Red Hat's community driven Fedora.

If you've been using Linux a while, you probably have some finely tuned configuration files for Bash, Vim, Emacs, or other applications. Keeping track of those files manually, and copying them to other machines when you set up new systems, can be a pain. Take control of your config files on Linux by using git to track changes and move your configs to new systems.

If we were already talking to our computers, etc. as we should be, I wouldn’t feel a need to write this to you. Given current rates of adoption, Linux still seems a generation away from being the priceless piece of free software useful to every child and PhD. This army your kernel enables has millions of people, but they often lose to smaller proprietary armies, because they are working inefficiently. My mail one year ago listed the biggest workitems, but I realize now I should have focused on one. In a sentence, I have discovered that we need GC lingua franca(s).

WordPress is quick and easy to install and update, but the quicker you can make these operations the better, right? If you have shell access to the server where your WordPress copy is installed, it is possible to make some operations much quicker and safer with this shell script.

When it comes to Linux virtualization, QEMU is one of the common parts of the virtualization stack. It's a very common emulator that provides dynamic binary translation and can run many unmodified guest operating systems on many different architectures from x86_64 to MIPS and PowerPC...

Today, i’ll show you how to use knockd to improve the security of your linux server, the more common use that i’ve saw so far is: “i’d like to connect on port 22 (ssh) but i don’t want to leave to port open for everyone..and i’ve a dynamic IP”. In these cases you can close the ports and use knockd to knock on the ports of your Linux box and let you in.

Let me start at the beginning: Recently, pulseaudio not only switched to a more power efficient (and otherwise) timing system. It also provided the infrastructure to use ALSA devices without causing _any_ interrupts, so you CPU can stay longer in standby mode, saving you power and avoiding playback glitches. With kernel 2.6.38 the first driver supports this infrastructure, the snd-hda-intel driver. This is what I tested for power efficiency in this article...