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Free Wifi tether with LG Vortex and Optimus One with out root
This article may be considered way late in the game being that the LG Vortex was release November of 2010 and the Optimus One quite a bit before that, but for those of you who are not a keeping up with the jones’ kinda person, have wanted to use your phone for wifi access but [...]
7 Good Dropbox Alternatives for Linux
Dropbox is probably the most popular online file storage and synchronization tool among Linux users. And as we have seen earlier, it is rather easy to install Dropbox in Ubuntu. But as a Linux user, what really are the alternatives to Dropbox for online file storage? Lets find out. Read more Blog this! Bookmark on [...]
Red Hat declares war against VMware on cloud front
Red Hat declared war on VMware’s Cloud Foundry today, announcing that 65 new companies have joined the Open Virtualization Alliance backing KVM in a month’s time. In May, Red Hat, SUSE, BMC Software, Eucalyptus Systems, HP, IBM and Intel, announced the formation of the Open Virtualization Alliance. As of today, 65 new members have joined, [...]
GNOME 3 vs. Unity: A Schism in the Making?
The face of the Linux desktop is drastically evolving. While the Linux communities struggle to bring more business and home users to the Linux desktop, existing users face choices about adopting redesigned desktop shells or finding suitable replacements. The fallout might well be the start of a Great New Linux Schism. The Linux desktop has [...]
Adobe dumps AIR on Linux. Does it really matter?
For all its flaws, Flash (or on of its incarnations like AIR or Flex) is still one of the few ways to create fully fledged desktop style applications that can be run in a web browser, mobile device, or as a traditional desktop application. By simply changing the target device when compiling, your code base [...]
Unity Grab Handles Are Beautiful, Learn How to Enable it in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal
Unity Grab Handles are a fun and aesthetically beautiful way to resize windows in new Ubuntu Unity. Even though they are not enabled by default in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, you can easily turn Unity Grab Handles on by following a few easy steps. Read More Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend [...]
PlanetLab creates a ‘more advanced sudo’
Researchers at the PlanetLab global research network have developed a potential replacement for the widely used Unix sudo tool, called Vsys. Read more Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share via MySpace share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Share on technorati Tumblr it Tweet about it Subscribe [...]
Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 11.04
Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on an Ubuntu 11.04 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support. Read more Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg [...]
Rewriting History with Git
The Git versioning system allows you to manage large-scale distributed code development projects with thousands of parallel branches. Its powerful checkout, merge, push, and pull capabilities help you work with code branches and clones. Sometimes you, as a contributor, might like to polish a branch you’ve checked out and reduce the number of commits you [...]
GNOME AND KDE 2011 Conference Call for Participation
The Desktop Summit 2011 is a joint conference organized by the GNOME and KDE communities in Berlin, Germany from the 6th August 2011 to the 12th August 2011. The organizing team is now inviting applications to hold workshop and Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions at the Desktop Summit. Read on for more details and [...]
