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Linux PCs: Customer service or lip service?
Insight Despite much hype over Linux, finding a new home PC running the open-source operating system is no easy task.
Tags: Service level management, Open source
Chroot users with OpenSSH the easy way
Techguide The new function included in the release of OpenSSH means you no longer have to rely on third-party hacks or complicated chroot setups to confine users to their home directories.
Tags: Networking, Open source
Configure wireless support in Mandriva Linux with ndiswrapper
Techguide Vincent Danen shows how you can configure wireless networking quickly and with less frustration.
Tags: Open source, Mobile/Wireless
DropBox seamlessly syncs files between systems
Techguide DropBox is an open source file synchronization service that works for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows clients.
Tags: Operating systems, Open source, Authentication, Fedora Project, File, GNOME, Ubuntu, Apple Macintosh, Mandriva, Mandriva Linux
Use Dovecot for POP3/IMAP services
Techguide Traditionally, if you wanted to set up POP3 or IMAP services on your Linux system, you would use Courier-IMAP, uw-imap, or cyrus-imapd. Another lesser-known but increasingly popular IMAP/POP3 server is Dovecot.
Tags: Open source, Networking, Authentication, POP3, SSL, private key, Mandriva, Mandriva Linux, SSL certificate, Dovecot
Expanding text with Snippits
Techguide Find out the basics on Snippits, a Linux-based text-expanding tool similar to Typinator or TextExpander for Mac.
Tags: Open source, Linux, Ruby, Gem, Hotkey, GNOME, Tool, Apple Macintosh, Debian, Mandriva
Microsoft told Nigeria to dump Linux for Windows
News Mandriva CEO claims 17,000 Linux desktop machines delivered to Nigeria are to have their operating systems replaced by Windows at the eleventh hour.
Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows
French military body to install Linux cluster
News An agency of the French Ministry of Defence is planning to install a high-performance Linux cluster for technical and scientific work.
Tags: Linux, Open source
Ubuntu voted 'Linux distribution of the year'
News The Debian-based distribution has won its latest accolade from a Linux community site.
Tags: Linux, Linux desktop OS, Linux server OS
Install Microsoft core TrueType fonts in Mandriva Linux
Techguide The default fonts packaged with Linux are definitely passable; however, Microsoft has some freely available TrueType fonts that make Linux look even better.
Tags: Open source, Linux server OS, Linux
HP to sell Linux PCs across Latin America
News Machines pre-installed with Mandriva Linux will ship in "all Latin American territories" including Brazil, Argentina and Mexico.
Tags: Personal Computers, Linux, Open source
Using QEMU for operating system virtualization
Techguide Vincent Danen presents a low-cost virtualization solution as an alternative to VMware and other virutalization software packages.
Tags: Linux, Open source
Tuning the Network File System for better performance
Techguide The Network File System (NFS) is still very popular on Linux systems, but it can use some help to increase performance by tweaking the relatively conservative defaults that most Linux distributions ship with.
Tags: Linux, Linux desktop OS, Linux server OS, Open source
Mandriva's new server Linux does virtualization treble
News Releases an open-source operating system update for corporate servers that offers three prominent virtualization technologies.
Tags: Linux server OS, Open source
Novell lays off AppArmor programmers
News Company reduces AppArmor work, relying instead on the open-source community, but project leaders launch a new company for the open-source Linux security project.
Tags: Open source, Programming languages
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