Category: Operating Systems

Ruby 1.8.5 on RHEL 4
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Ruby 1.8.5 on RHEL 4

While working on deploying puppet 2.6.0 onto RHEL4, I found that the supported ruby version of 1.8.1 does not have the right support for default_argv [ continue reading... ]

Puppet 2.6.0 on SLES 11 SP1
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Puppet 2.6.0 on SLES 11 SP1

Recently my orginization signed a contract with Novell to implement some SLES. With this I decided to start implementing puppet (learning it first) along with [ continue reading... ]

PCLinuxOS 2010.1 KDE 4 – Released
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PCLinuxOS 2010.1 KDE 4 – Released

The PCLinuxOS Development team announced the release of PCLinuxOS 2010.1 KDE 4 Edition. This is the second release for the PCLinuxOS 2010 Family, which includes [ continue reading... ]

Using sudo without a password
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Using sudo without a password

One of the most noticeable features of ubuntu is the common use of sudo in order to perform ‘root’ level tasks.  By default the ‘root’ [ continue reading... ]

VortexBox 1.3 Released
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VortexBox 1.3 Released

Today the VortexBox Development team announced the immediate release of VortexBox 1.3. VortexBox is a free, open source (GPL v3), quick-install ISO that turns your [ continue reading... ]

openSUSE Weekly News 118 Released
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openSUSE Weekly News 118 Released

The openSUSE team has released affective immediatly their weekly news release labels #118. In the release notes you can find the following from their site [ continue reading... ]

10 Things Linux Does Better Than Windows
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10 Things Linux Does Better Than Windows

Techgage wrote an interesting article titled 10 things linux does better than windows. Here’s a quick rundown of the 10 things that the article eludes [ continue reading... ]

openSUSE 11.2 Video – eWEEK Labs
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openSUSE 11.2 Video – eWEEK Labs

eWEEK Labs’ Jason Brooks and Andrew Garcia discuss Novell’s latest community-oriented Linux OS, OpenSUSE 11.2. From www.eweek.com: You can watch the video here.

Parsix GNU/Linux 3.0r2 Released
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Parsix GNU/Linux 3.0r2 Released

The second release for Parisix 3.0, codenamed “Kev”. This release is an update of all the packages that have been put into the APT repositories [ continue reading... ]

Linux Mint 8 Helena KDE Released
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Linux Mint 8 Helena KDE Released

The Linux Mint Developers have released Linux Mine 8 KDE Edition which is based on Kubuntu 9.10. It’s shipped with the Linux Kernel version 2.6.31, [ continue reading... ]

Absolute Linux 13.0.9 Released
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Absolute Linux 13.0.9 Released

Here’s some information about Absolute Linux from their site (note they go through a ton of releases, since the do a release with application updates [ continue reading... ]

ArtistX .8 Released – Multimedia Distribution
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ArtistX .8 Released – Multimedia Distribution

The ArtistX team announced the release of ArtistX .8 which is a multimedia distribution based off of ever so popular Ubuntu. If you haven’t heard [ continue reading... ]

Vortex Box 1.1 Released – Media Distribution
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Vortex Box 1.1 Released – Media Distribution

The Vortex Box development team recently released Vortex Box 1.1 which includes a few new features. If you don’t know what Vortex Box is, here’s [ continue reading... ]

Install Google Chrome on Ubuntu or Kubuntu Debian Linux deb
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Install Google Chrome on Ubuntu or Kubuntu Debian Linux deb

Goolge Chrome is a kick ass browser that is taking the browsing industry by storm. Its stunning speed has been winning users over since it’s [ continue reading... ]

Kubuntu and KDE 4 User Auto Login
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Kubuntu and KDE 4 User Auto Login

Here’s a quick how to on setting user x to auto login under KDE 4. You may want to do this if it’s your machine [ continue reading... ]