MirrorBrain is a framework to run a content delivery network using mirror servers. It solves a challenge that many popular open source projects face: a flood of download requests, often magnitudes more than a single site could practically handle. A central (and probably the most obvious) part is a "download redirector" that automatically redirects requests [...]
{lang: ‘en-GB’} In this cheat sheet you will find a bunch of the most common Linux commands that you’re likely to use on a regular basis. On most systems you can lookup detailed information about any command by typing man command_name. You will need to be root user in order to use some of these [...]
Red Hat has extended the life cycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and 6 from seven to 10 years, with RHEL 6 now supported through 2020. Meanwhile, Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman left Red Hat rival SUSE to join the Linux Foundation as a fellow. DesktopLinux.com
kramdown is a fast pure Ruby Markdown-superset converter. It uses a strict syntax definition and supports several common extensions. Release Notes: Some bugfixes. Tags: Ruby, markdown Licenses: GPLv3 freshmeat.net Releases
That’s my wish for Ubuntu’s direction – instead of trying to reinvent the UI, simply focus on integrating Android with Ubuntu, so much so that if you’re an Android user, you’ll be tempted to switch to Ubuntu because it makes life so easy. Read more here Ubuntu-News – Your one stop for news about Ubuntu
Well, that was fast. Just couple of days back, a new gameplay video for Tomes of Mephistopheles (ToM) was revealed and now …Full Article UbuntuHQ
Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix is a starting point for large-scale corporate desktop deployments. It is inspired by a review of common changes made by IT departments deploying Ubuntu at scale. The result is a simple base image that can be deployed into your corporate environment or used as a starting point for further customisation. Ubuntu
qx11grab is a systray program that uses ffmpeg for recording X11 desktop windows. This program grabs window dimensions with xevent and prepares the command line for ffmpeg with configuration options. It sends the generated parameter list to a new ffmpeg process. Release Notes: This release fixes the rubber band behavior with Xinerama desktops and includes [...]
Canonical recently upped its marketing pitch by releasing a slew of ads featuring Ubuntu. System76 has joined the fray and has just now released a small commercial (more like a teaser video), again featuring an Ubuntu powered desktop from its inventory. If you are not …Full Article UbuntuHQ
{lang: ‘en-GB’} Unhide is a forensic tool to find hidden processes and TCP/UDP ports by rootkits / LKMs or by another hidden technique. (…)Read the rest of Unhide – The opensource forensic tool (263 words) © admin for Ubuntu Geek, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: desktop, Unhide, Unhide [...]
Popular community site LinuxQuestions.org has published the results of its 2011 Members Choice Awards, which have yielded results that might be a bit surprising for those who believe the Linux community has turned away from Canonical’s Ubuntu distribution. Read more here Ubuntu-News – Your one stop for news about Ubuntu
{lang: ‘en-GB’} FreeFileSync is an Open-Source folder comparison and synchronization tool. It is optimized for highest performance and usability without restricted or overloaded UI interfaces. (…)Read the rest of FreeFileSync – Visual folder comparison and synchronization (256 words) © admin for Ubuntu Geek, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: [...]
Every six months, Canonical hosts an Ubuntu event where we define the plans for the upcoming version of Ubuntu. Location: Oakland, CA, USA Time: Mon, 2012-05-07 (All day) – Fri, 2012-05-11 (All day) read more Ubuntu
DesktopLinux.com’s publisher, Ziff-Davis Enterprise, has been acquired by a Californian company — as yet undisclosed, but rumored to be Foster City-based QuinStreet. Future plans for the site have not yet been announced … At this point, the future of DesktopLinux.com is uncertain. What we can say DesktopLinux.com
Ubuntu displays an informative message, known as the message of the day, when a user logs in at the terminal. The MOTD is fully customizable — you can add your own text and other dynamic data. Read more here Ubuntu-News – Your one stop for news about Ubuntu
fio is an I/O tool meant to be used both for benchmark and stress/hardware verification. It has support for 13 different types of I/O engines (sync, mmap, libaio, posixaio, SG v3, splice, null, network, syslet, guasi, solarisaio, and more), I/O priorities (for newer Linux kernels), rate I/O, forked or threaded jobs, and much more. It [...]
RingyDingyDingy is a lightweight app which lets you send a text message to your phone (or your Google Voice number, for phones and tablets) to make it ring (disabling silent/vibrate if on, and restoring them when ringing has stopped) and lock (on Froyo or newer). Release Notes: This release adds a Google Voice trigger (compatible [...]
Computex is the largest show in Asia, and the world’s leading ICT event for the 31st year. It’s also Taiwan’s largest export exhibition, using 5 venues and hosting an exhibition with largest number of international buyers (36,000).Canonical will be exhibiting at the show. Location: Taipei, Taiwan Time: Tue, 2012-06-05 (All day) – Sat, 2012-06-09 (All [...]
dd_rescue copies data from one file or block device to another. It is intended for error recovery, so, by default, it doesn’t abort on errors, and doesn’t truncate the output file. It uses large block sizes to quicken the copying, but falls back to small blocks upon encountering errors. It produces reports that allow you [...]
One of the most popular GTK2 themes Orta has been finally ported to GTK3 by
