Tag: "linux"

Getting VMware Tools Version for Linux via CLI
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Getting VMware Tools Version for Linux via CLI

VMware doesn’t seem to provide a very good way to get the version of your VMware tools currently installed on your server. However, you can [ 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... ]

Sony Playstation 3 Owner Gets Partial Refund For Losing Linux
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Sony Playstation 3 Owner Gets Partial Refund For Losing Linux

Recently sony recently reported the following: The next system software update for the PlayStation 3 (PS3) system will be released on April 1, 2010 (JST), [ continue reading... ]

Tiny Core Linux v2.8 Released
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Tiny Core Linux v2.8 Released

Tiny Core Linux v2.8 was just released. Here is an excerpt of the target, or theme of this release: The theme for this release is [ continue reading... ]

Installing BackTrack Linux 4 – Security Distribution
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Installing BackTrack Linux 4 – Security Distribution

Here’s an explination of what “BackTrack Linux” is from backtrack-linux.com Here are some screenshots of an installation I did into VirtualBox. I’ll give more tutorials [ continue reading... ]

Amarok 2.2.2 “Maya Gold” Released – openSUSE Repositories
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Amarok 2.2.2 “Maya Gold” Released – openSUSE Repositories

The Amarok team proudly announced yesterday that Amarok 2.2.2 has been released. Only 2 months after the release of 2.2.1 and a few weeks after [ continue reading... ]

OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 Build 9319 Available for openSUSE
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OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 Build 9319 Available for openSUSE

The openSUSE Build Service repository for OpenOffice Unstable has received OpenOffice.org 3.2.0, build 9319. I’m not sure if this is the final build from OpenOffice.org, [ continue reading... ]

KDE 4 Windows Switching Preview – openSUSE
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KDE 4 Windows Switching Preview – openSUSE

I decided to check out the different Windows Switching options in KDE 4, and decided I’d give a little preview of the 5 different methods [ continue reading... ]

Patching Linux Servers in the Enterprise
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Patching Linux Servers in the Enterprise

Do you do it? Is the process automated? What updates do you apply? So recently a discussion came of patching some Linux servers in the [ continue reading... ]

Linux Mint 8 Installation Visual Walk Through – VirtualBox
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Linux Mint 8 Installation Visual Walk Through – VirtualBox

Here’s a walk through of the Linux Mint 8 Helena. You’ll notice a ton of similarities between the installation process of Linux Mint 8 and [ continue reading... ]

Arch Linux 2009.8 Installation Visualization – VirtualBox
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Arch Linux 2009.8 Installation Visualization – VirtualBox

Here’s another visual walkthrough of an installation. This time of Arch Linux Core (Core has all the base packages on CD and you have the [ continue reading... ]

Installing Ubuntu 9.10 Walk Through – VirtualBox
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Installing Ubuntu 9.10 Walk Through – VirtualBox

I went ahead and just did a quick screenshot walk through of installing Ubuntu 9.10, and some possible points of interest for anyone that may [ continue reading... ]

VirtualBox 3.1 What’s New Webinar
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VirtualBox 3.1 What’s New Webinar

Sun Microsystem is holding a webinar for the latest release of VirtualBox 3.1 titled, What’s New in 3.1. Slated for the Webinar is: Teleportation Speedups [ continue reading... ]

Google Chrome goes Beta for Linux – openSUSE Fedora Ubuntu Debian
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Google Chrome goes Beta for Linux – openSUSE Fedora Ubuntu Debian

Today Google has annonced that Google Chrome is now in Beta for Linux thanks to the continued work and testing from the Chromium Project. You [ continue reading... ]

KDE 4.4 Beta 1 – Tabbed Windows Review – openSUSE
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KDE 4.4 Beta 1 – Tabbed Windows Review – openSUSE

Ok, I have to admit when I first thought or heard of this feature in KDE 4.4, I wasn’t really excited. I thought.. now why [ continue reading... ]