 | In Ubuntu linux, when an application is launched, it always starts in the active viewport. However, we can make the applications start is some pre-specified viewports whenever we launch them. Launching applications in different viewports than in the active ones have many benefits of their own and help you get more productive while at work. In… |
 | You may have noticed that, the Firefox versions that ship for Linux, don`t have the ability to select the url in the address bar on single-click of a mouse, whereas this is set by default in Windows versions of Firefox. If, you feel this feature should be there in the linux version of firefox too,… |
 | Fedora 11 Leonidas is yet another rocking linux distro from the Fedora Community. Fedora 11 has some really nice features such as finger print reader login, 10 second boot up and more. So that your experience with Fedora 11 is as smooth as it was our’s, we have prepared a cheat-sheet for the brand new… |
| Update: This problem has now been resolved by the Fedora Community. But you may still not be able to download the updates properly from the mirrors due to the busy network and rush. The recently released Fedora 11 Leonidas has some issues with it’s regular update process. Many users are getting a strange error which… |
| If you are installing the Virtualbox Guest Additions package on a Linux Guest then you might end up with an error such as No support for OpenGL direct rendering as reported by one of our readers. This can be easily fixed by using an alternate command to install the Virtualbox Guest Additions instead of the one… |
| Installing Build and Kernel Headers for your Linux distribution is very easy using the yum tool available in Red Hat based systems. Fedora which is the Community’s free Red Hat , can also have the Linux Build and Kernel headers installed using the yum tool. Just use the following command to install the build and… |
 | Installing Build and Kernel Headers for your Linux distribution is very easy using the apt-get tool available in Debian based systems. Ubuntu and it’s variants being derived from Debian, can also have the Linux Build and Kernel headers installed using the apt-get tool. Just use the following command to install the build and header files… |
| NILFS2 is an acronym for “New Implementation of a Log-Structured File System Version 2”. This file system is one of the two new file systems, along with EXOFS, that was incorporated in the recently released Linux Kernel 2.6.30. According to the kernel documentation, NILFS is a new implementation of a log-structured file system (LFS) supporting… |
 | For some unknown reason, I (as well as many other) like to set my currently playing track as my status in Gtalk and other IM clients. In Windows, with Gtalk and Winamp, this can be done done very easily. (From Winamp 5.5, there is a bit of problem.) But in Linux neither the GTalk client… |
