 | As Network technology advances and we have newer forms of connection methods coming up everyday, the need for a workstation to participate in or connect to more than one network is becoming more and more common. For example, a computer can access internet from two different computers say from one having an IP 192.168.*.* and… |
 | Yesterday, Mark Shuttleworth, tha founder of Canonical Ltd., has announced that Ubuntu 9.10 will be code-named “Karmic Koala”, another animal related name. For the desktop, as Shuttleworth wrote, they are focussing on “first impressions”. He also announced a beautiful, faster, smooth and flicker-free startup. The desktop is also going to sport a new look with… |
 | A default installation of Fedora 10 will boot you into the Graphical User Interface (GUI) Mode (unless you havent opted for installing the X1-GUI packages). In case you are running only a server out of your Fedora 10 box you might want you computer to be started only in the text mode. For forcing your… |
 | If you use VLC Media Player to listen to audio songs and are an avid Last.FM fan, then you are in luck. Last.FM has announced the integration of audioscrobbler and VLC. In order to get your tracks scrobbled to your Last.FM profile you need to download and install the Last.FM audioscrobbling client. When you start… |
 | KDE was voted as the best desktop environment of the year 2008 by the members of LinuxQuestions.org. This award will surely add some feathers to KDE’s cap and also provide some relief to the KDE team, which lately has been involved in a lot of controversies due to KDE 4.0, which failed to live up… |
| Yesterday , on the eve of Valentine’s Day, Debian finally released the new version of their acclaimed OS. Code-named as ‘Lenny’, after the animated character from the Disney/Pixar film “Toy Story”, it marks the first major Debian release since ‘Etch’ which was released way back in April 2007. After almost 22 months of hard work … |
| Data security is the mantra of the day. Various Organisations employ Local Area Networks in the premises to ensure fast access and transfer of data between hosts. Transferring these files securely over the network is a big issue. But with linux and the SSH at our disposal, transferring files between hosts has now become fast,… |
 | Fedora users who cannot wait for the next fedora release rejoice. The Fedora Project has oficially announced the release of Fedora 11 (Leonidas) Alpha. Be aware though that the alpha release, like all the alpha releases, is mainly targeted at developers and testers. The Fedora Project, however, has been kind enough to include a installable… |
