admin @ January 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
In the past, Linux was not overly blessed with decent budgeting software, and installing GnuCash was regarded by many as the epitome of a descent into dependency hell.
Thankfully, things have since changed, and anyone using a modern distribution could now have the software ready to go in just a few minutes.
This kind of software [...]
admin @ January 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Ask any DJ about the industry-standard tools of the trade, and it’s still a pair of the Matsushita Electric Industrial Company’s high-end hi-fi turntables from the early 70s, repurposed as club decks in the disco era and known to all as the Technics SL-1200s or 1210s.
Vinyl offers hands-on control, and because the traditional setup [...]
admin @ January 3, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Nothing can beat having a great Linux distro installed on a super-fast hard drive, with all your favourite apps configured just how you like them and all your files at your fingertips.
But this has one major drawback: perfect as your setup is, it’s also just one machine, and sooner or later you’ll be forced [...]
admin @ December 31, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The netbook trend has been called something of a Trojan Horse for the spread of Linux; we’re not about to disagree.
The number of Linux users is increasing exponentially, and there’s a good chance you’re among them if Santa has been kind.
Netbook sales in 2008 have been nothing short of astonishing.
The typical netbook is user [...]
admin @ December 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I have a quad-core CPU, super-fast hard disks and heaps of RAM – Linux is already pretty darn nippy if you ask me!
Perhaps. But, let’s face it: if it takes more than 30 seconds to get from pressing the power button to you reading your email, that’s 30 seconds you could have spent chatting to [...]
admin @ December 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
In common with other parts of the early Unix operating system, the term ‘daemon’ gives little away about what its function might be.
A daemon is a task that runs in the background, and there’s a small army of them that are started when you fire up your machine. There are daemons for controlling automated [...]
admin @ December 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
What can you do to stand out from the hundreds of other Linux distros that already exist?
There are a number of angles you can explore for this – choose one, two or all of them if you want!
ОФИС-МЕНЕДЖЕР. Be cutting edge
At its height, Mandriva was famed for including the very latest software, [...]
admin @ December 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
It has been two years since Linux Format magazine last reported on Ulteo.
Back then, we all thought it was going to be a standard new Linux distribution created by Gal Duval, the founder of Mandrake Linux.
If you take a look at Ulteo.com today, you won’t find any mention of Linux on the home [...]
admin @ December 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Jeremy Allison’s contributions to the free software world are legion, and yet the project he’s best known for continues to be Samba, the open implementation of some of Microsoft’s most important networking protocols.
Linux Format magazine asked him about KDE, NAS, LSB, DCs and other acronyms, and now his answers are here for your TLA titillation… [...]
admin @ December 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Mobile telecoms companies are now pushing “mobile broadband” in the form of a connection that uses the 3G mobile phone networks. While the bandwidth available can be variable, you don’t need massive bandwidth for most tasks, as long as it has sufficient throughput for the main business tasks: email, Facebook and YouTube.
That leaves us [...]