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Category: Linux/Unix
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Ubuntu wireless-adapter glitch resolved
Now you can use your wireless adapter with Ubuntu!
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Flipping the Linux switch: Package management 101
Your shiny new Linux system has it all — except that one program you really needed it to install. You get online, you find the program’s website, and click ‘download’. Except there’s not just a link to the program there. There are four, or five, or more links to the program. What’s the difference? What’s actually included in these packages?
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Shuttle launches $199 KPC linux box, $99 barebones kit
Apparently Asus and Everex aren’t the only ones capable of shipping dirt cheap linux boxes these days. Shuttle is getting into the game with its new KPC box. Unfortunately, we’re way short on specs, but we do know that it’ll be coming in $199 pre-built and $99 barebones versions. No word on release date.
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Linux phone to Debut upgrade at CES
OpenMoko has announced an upgrade to its Linux-powered mobile phone and plans to present the device at CES.
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Linux Commands Line
The most complete and updated list of commands on linux – over 350 commands divided into argoments!
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Rocket Linux To Launch At CES
Version 2.0 of gOS, used on the fast-selling $199 Wal-Mart PC, integrates Google-based applications and features.
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68 Linux Related Free E-books
A comprehensive list of Free Linux related e-books.
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Spicebird a Mozilla-based collaboration Outlook killer
Spicebird is built on Thunderbird and Lightning, the powerful extension that adds calendaring functions to Thunderbird. Additionally it seems to integrate SamePlace, a Firefox extension that provides instant messaging capabilities based on the Jabber protoco
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Linux Is Not Y2K(38) Compliant!?
All 32 bit Unix and Linux systems will come to a halt on January 19, 2038 at 3:14:07. This is due to the fact that *nix systems keep track of time in a four byte integer corresponding to the number of seconds after January 1, 1970 12:00:00. The maximum value of a four byte integer is 2,146,483,547 which is equivalent of January 19, 2038 at 3:14:07