Archive of 'Linux'

Stefano Zacchiroli (Debian Leader): Local communities are important

[ Tuesday, 18 May 2010, michuk ]

Stefano Zacchiroli, a new Debian Project Leader, in an interview with Polish Debian Portal speaks about this year’s campaign, realase policy of the project, the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD port and other non-linux ports, and the role of local Debian communities.

Three ways to securely access remote internal networks and work from home

[ Thursday, 7 January 2010, fenio ]

Remote access to a computer and internal network’s secured resources – all of it in a simple way that’s following well-known security’s best practices? Sounds impossible, but it’s not. How to achieve it explains Bartosz FeÅ„ski aka fEnIo.

Media PC on Linux

[ Wednesday, 11 November 2009, alkor ]

As an experiment I decided to build Media PC based on Linux. First of all I was wondering, how much did the Linux distributions evolve in the past few years (I’ve used Linux since a few years only on servers). The second thing is, I was fascinated by quite new, miniaturized hardware solutions based on [...]

Amarok 2.1 is out & Installing Amarok 2.1 on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty

[ Saturday, 13 June 2009, SathyaBhat ]

I was catching up on some feeds yesterday, and this piece of news caught my eye – Amarok 2.1 released. Being a long time Amarok fan ( heck Amarok itself was catalyst to make me use my SUSE 10.0 use full time) – I read the article with great interest. Amarok 2 users would know [...]

A quick look at Mandriva 2009.1 Spring

[ Friday, 22 May 2009, tzglobic ]

They say first love never dies, and I guess there is a degree of truth in that. Mandrake the predecessor of Mandriva was my first Linux, and despite the fact that over the years our ways parted, I have a sentiment for this distribution and I come back to it every now and again to [...]

Preview of Kubuntu 9.04

[ Friday, 10 April 2009, tzglobic ]

It is that time of the year again, along with the beginning of the spring, yet another release of Ubuntu 9.04 codenamed Jaunty Jackalope is coming shortly to a server near you. As the beta version was released couple of weeks ago, I decided to have a quick look and see what can be expected [...]

Arch Linux – a distro collector’s pick

[ Monday, 16 March 2009, Adam M. ]

Are you tired of frequent seeking or all these mega-piles of CDs constantly growing on your desktop? Is there any place left out there? Do you really need to wait another six months to update your software or get the feature you expect? Well, what I want to tell you is that there is a [...]

Ubuntu 8.10 – A Positive Evolution

[ Thursday, 30 October 2008, Adrianot ]

Ubuntu 8.10 has been installed on my computer for over two weeks now. The tests began with beta version through RC and finished with the final release today. Usually I do not install test versions, however, favourable opinions of my friends convinced me it was worth trying. I have to admit, I am not disappointed [...]