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1. Use an open source alternative instead When someone asks me if they can run “Windows Application X” on Linux, the first thing I tell them is to look for an open source alternative. For most Windows applications, there will be a high-quality open source alternative that can meet their needs. The biggest hurdle for…
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What do you do if you NEED to use Internet Explorer on your Linux system? Of course, nobody would WANT to use Internet Explorer on Linux but there are times when you need it to get your work done. This is a sad state of affairs, so remember to encourage your software vendors to always…
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Introduction People who work with Cisco network equipment need to be able to connect to the console port on their devices. In Windows, you can simply fire up HyperTerminal to get basic access to your devices. If you are using Linux, then you need to know how this can be done with an application called…
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I was recently surprised and blessed with a post that reached the front-page of Digg. This means that the post must be good, so you should read it. I had never really paid attention to Digg before this. I knew what it was, but I didn’t really understand how the process worked, or how much…
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No, I’m not talking about Xen You probably thought that this post was going to be about Xen, which is an excellent piece of virtualization software. Instead, I am going to share with you a newcomer into the field of open source virtualization. On January 15th, InnoTek announced the release of VirtualBox under the GPL…
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Take a look at this warning on the OpenSuse website: Warning: Updating from one version to another is unsupported and may result in system inconsistencies. Performing distribution upgrades in the running system increases the risk of causing damage. If you ask me, not being able to upgrade my operating system is major problem. Fedora also…
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One of the major requirements for running Ubuntu at work is that I need to be able to access our department network drives on Novell Netware servers. I thought this was going to be a difficult procedure, but as you will soon learn it is not hard at all. Novell Netware servers use the NCP…
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I recently installed Ubuntu 6.10 on a new PC at work. In this post I will document all the steps I had to perform to get it ready for everyday use. Each step is assigned a level of difficulty, which I define below: Very Easy Step can be completed without using the command prompt Intuitive…
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Eric S. Raymond and Rob Landley have written an interesting paper called “World Domination 201“. The main idea of this paper is that the entrance of 64-bit processors will force a new operating system to be adopted, which provides a unique opportunity for Linux to become the dominate operating system. Their conclusion is based on…
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The Fedora Legacy Project is shutting down. The goal of the Fedora Legacy Project was to provide security and critical bug fix errata packages for Fedora Core distributions in maintenance mode. Fedora users can no longer get support for releases older than Fedora Core 5, which was released in March, 2006. If you installed Fedora…
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