Archive August, 2006

Mandriva 2007 Beta 2 - short review

[ Tuesday, 29 August 2006, Lukasz Ros ]
Beta versions of Mandriva 2007 have been appearing for a while now and the final release is coming soon. This short review covers the key changes introduced in beta 2 - the Live-CD version with GNOME desktop onboard. Some screenshots are attached as well :)

PolishLinux forum on Nuxified.org

[ Tuesday, 22 August 2006, michuk ]
PolishLinux.org has a web forum now. It can be accessed by typing forum.polishlinux.org in your browser. The forum is hosted by nuxified.org. We strongly encourage to post your feedback and any suggestions on improving the vortal there.

SSH Tunnels: Bypass (Almost) Any Firewall

[ Saturday, 19 August 2006, pazkooda ]
The goal of this article is to present a few effective methods to revamp the way you work in a restricted corporation-like network. In order to achieve it we’re going to use SSH tunnelling to bypass the firewall rules applied by your system administrator.

PolishLinux.org got out of beta

[ Thursday, 17 August 2006, michuk ]
The vortal has just left the beta stage and has been rebranded at the same time. Enigmatic en.jakilinux.org name has been changed to PolishLinux.org. Why PolishLinux? Because our goal is to provide you the knowledge to polish your Linux box according to your needs.

Using iPod Nano in GNU/Linux

[ Friday, 11 August 2006, michuk ]
iPod is the most popular portable music player in the world. In this article we are going to describe the current status of iPod support in GNU/Linux and present the key applications (open-source only!) which can help us, Linux users, manage our iPod music collections.

Ten Reasons To Dump Windows [I]

[ Thursday, 3 August 2006, michuk ]
Microsoft has reached an enormous success with its Windows product, but does it mean it is still the best OS around, especially for power users? In this article I’m going to cumulate my Windows XP frustrations and tell you about the top 10 reasons why I decided to dump Windows and use GNU/Linux as my primary desktop OS.