Video Review: Xubuntu 11.10 – Elegant, Simple XFCE
January 27, 2012 By Michael Perks 1 Comment
Short video on Ubuntu's little brother/sister Xubuntu 11.10 with it's XFCE Desktop Manager. Fast and Simple is what I feel Xubuntu 11.10 is. Fast to load and simple to use. Runs well on a VM if thats all you have. Enjoy and download it free today! … [Read More...]
Katherine Noyes: I’m a Linux fan, and I enjoy helping to bring Linux to the forefront
January 27, 2012 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
I picked the “Linux Girl” name when we first launched the column back in 2007, and I chose it because I was imagining something like a comic-book figure for myself as the trusty Linux-land reporter - a bit like a cross between Lois Lane and Wonder Woman, with a superhero-like cape with a large “L” or Tux image emblazoned on it. I still get a kick out of that character. LXer Linux News … [Read More...]
Holo: Android Ice Cream Sandwich Like Theme Pack For GNOME 3 (GTK/Shell)
January 27, 2012 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Holo is a cool new GNOME 3 theme pack created by Tiheum (the Faenza icon theme designer) that tries to mimic the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich theme. Holo was initially called "Ice Cream Sandwich" and only included a GNOME Shell theme, but a recent update brought matching GTK3 and GTK2 themes too. … [Read More...]
Fedora 17 Moves Forward With Unified File-System
January 27, 2012 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Fedora 17 is moving forward with plans whereby the entire base operating system will live within /usr by condensing several common directories that have been long-standing to Linux distributions...Phoronix … [Read More...]
Video Review: Xubuntu 11.10 – Elegant, Simple XFCE
January 27, 2012 By Michael Perks 1 Comment
Short video on Ubuntu's little brother/sister Xubuntu 11.10 with it's XFCE Desktop Manager. Fast and Simple is what I feel Xubuntu 11.10 is. Fast to load and simple to use. Runs well on a VM if thats all you have. Enjoy and download it free today! … [Read More...]
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Katherine Noyes: I’m a Linux fan, and I enjoy helping to bring Linux to the forefront
January 27, 2012 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
I picked the “Linux Girl” name when we first launched the column back in 2007, and I chose it because I was imagining something like a comic-book figure for myself as the trusty Linux-land reporter - a bit … [Read More...]
Ubuntu 12.04 Is ARM-ing Up For Better Performance
January 27, 2012 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
As shared on Phoronix in many articles already, Canonical has big plans for Ubuntu in the ARM-space. They are looking forward to making Ubuntu Linux be the first operating system to support the forthcoming ARM … [Read More...]
Microsoft’s magic bullet for Azure: Red Hat Linux
January 27, 2012 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
If Microsoft loves money, and it does, then making Linux publicly available on its proprietary Azure cloud can't come soon enough. Last June Microsoft ran a build of Linux on its Windows Azure compute fabric in … [Read More...]
How-To: Make KDE Like Unity
January 27, 2012 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
KDE is a super-powerful DE, and here I'm going to show how to make it look and act a bit like Unity. LXer Linux News … [Read More...]
Basic Backup Script in BASH
January 27, 2012 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Everyone should be backing up their data. This just doesn't go towards sysadmins, but even people at home who never even think of it. Just like everything else in I.T., hard drives were built to fail. If you do … [Read More...]
Yup, Ubuntu again. Number 11.10.
January 27, 2012 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Notice how the 11 comes before the ten. This does signify that eleven is, indeed, louder than ten. Everyone loves hating Unity. It's new. It's different. It's pretty. It's everything that Linux typically isn't. … [Read More...]
Using DeVeDe to create DVDs on Linux
January 27, 2012 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Your daughter's birthday was beautiful and you have lots of videos and pictures from the event that have to be organized in a nice-looking way. Your graduation party was a blast and you want to remember it … [Read More...]
