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A free script is now available to help Linux users install and run Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Offered by the U.K.-based team behind "IEs 4 Linux," the script can aid web developers who need to fine-tune sites for IE, or Linux users who want to visit websites designed specifically for IE.
Step-by-step instructions are provided, including specific instructions for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, and Debian systems.

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MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of codecs and file formats, including MPEG 1/2/4,
DivX 3/4/5, Windows Media 7/8/9, RealAudio/Video up to 9, Quicktime 5/6, and Vivo 1/2. It has many MX/SSE(2)/3Dnow(Ex) optimized native audio and video codecs, but allows using XAnim’s and RealPlayer’s binary codec plugins, and Win32 codec DLLs. It has basic VCD/DVD playback functionality, including DVD subtitles, but supports many text-based subtitle formats too. For video output, nearly every existing interface is supported. It’s also able to convert any supported files to raw/divx/mpeg4 AVI (pcm/mp3 audio), and even video grabbing from V4L devices.

# posted by picdout @ 12:10 0 comments

Ubuntu is one of the few Linux distributions out there that will not enable the root account.If you want to do something with root permission on the console you have to type sudo before the command.

# posted by picdout @ 08:50 0 comments

Zabbix is a nifty service monitoring application that also keeps a history of each machine, so it can be used for trend analysis as well as "normal" monitoring. It can be used to monitor just about anything, and uses a client agent for windows, linux, BSD, Solaris and others. I use it for an easy to use overview of how all the servers are keeping, and its useful to have a look at when users start moaning, because at a glance you can see what is happening. It can also send alerts based on a huge range of criteria, so you could know before the users even get a chance to moan. This installation is using an Ubuntu (6.0.6 Dapper) virtual machine to do the monitoring. Ive made a 2Gb HDD, and given it 64M of RAM, which should be enough.

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The OpenOffice.org documentation project has announced a Template & Clipart Contest.

The total prize money is to the tune of $5000 sponsored by WorldLabel, which has been long a strong champion of OpenOffice.org.

The goal is to increase the trove of templates and clipart. The current collection of template samples leaves a huge gap that needs to be filled. Step up and fill that gap. Winners will also have the option of including their winning entries in the OpenOffice.org installation sets available from the site.

# posted by picdout @ 08:27 0 comments

Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu: one of the fastest-growing Linux distros on the market today, and certainly one of the most respected among experienced Linux users. Since its inaugural release in October, 2004, Ubuntu has earned a significant and very loyal following among desktop Linux users. More recently, Canonical announced plans to make Ubuntu a player in the enterprise Linux market, including a new server release and extended support packages tailored for business users.

# posted by picdout @ 17:59 0 comments

The next version of the now wildly popular Linux distribution, Edgy Eft, is due for its beta release today. As the name suggests, Edgy Eft will include bleeding-edge Linux technologies, with many of the packages expected in Edgy to be beta themselves.

At time of writing, the beta is not available for download. While we wait eagerly, refreshing the page every few minutes, we'll take a look at what to expect in Ubuntu 6.10.

# posted by picdout @ 09:19 0 comments

IEs4Linux is the simpler way to have Microsoft Internet Explorer running on Linux (or any OS running Wine).

No clicks needed. No boring setup processes. No Wine complications. Just one easy script and you’ll get three IE versions to test your Sites. And it’s free and open source.This may be very helpful for software developers and web developers to test their applications

# posted by picdout @ 15:38 0 comments

First there was Lindows, the Linux that was going to be worth our cold, hard cash because it was going to run all our Windows apps. That idea didn't exactly pan out--and neither did the Lindows name. Then came Linspire, the latest version of which wasn't very inspiring at all.

But enough of what happened on previous seasons of the Linspire show. The new season began with a bang on August 9, when the Linspire folks released Freespire 1.0, a no-cost offering that seems a direct response to other freely distributed Linuxes such as Ubuntu, Red Hat's Fedora, and Novell's openSUSE. The Linspire people believe that Freespire is a cut above, for at least 15 different reasons. In my testing, I found Freespire to be the most compelling release yet from Linspire, but I also came away more appreciative of Ubuntu Linux than ever. For desktop users, Ubuntu has simply become the distribution to beat--and Freespire doesn't rise to the task.

# posted by picdout @ 08:02 0 comments

This guide is aimed at the newbies who are willing to learn something about kernel compilation or just who need a new kernel for incompatibility issues (e.g. DMA issues). This is a STEP-BY-STEP guide, so don't be afraid of compiling your first kernel, it's a piece of cake. Moreover if you need to compile any kernel module (nvidia modules, ndiswrapper, etc.) I will also explain how to do it.

# posted by picdout @ 20:04 0 comments

Ubuntu has issued an update for firefox. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct man-in-the-middle, spoofing, and cross-site scripting attacks, and potentially compromise a user's system.

# posted by picdout @ 17:21 0 comments

Has two talks he could give - collaboration, one of the great challenges facing free software community. Have some dam good tools, and produce world class software, but if we're going to step up to the next level that our grannies can use, and be confident and comfortable using, we'll have to amp up the collaboration.

Or... can look at some of the mountains that we have to climb. If we want to establish the norm, there are some key challenges.

Crowd voted for challenges.

Free Software Rules
The web rules - Apache is the no 1 web server; free software CMS; applications.

# posted by picdout @ 21:15 0 comments

Following the launch of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS earlier this year, Canonical is very happy to make Panda Software DesktopSecure for Linux available to all users of Ubuntu 6.06.

Combining the security and manageability of Panda's latest security suite and Ubuntu's easy to use interface gives all users the opportunity to safely and easily browse, shop and interact over the web

# posted by picdout @ 15:54 0 comments

Introduction
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It took its time, but now I am proud to announce the first
implementation of the "Provide debug symbols for all packages"
specification [1].

A while ago I wrote the package 'pkg-create-dbgsym' which
automatically creates -dbgsym .ddebs (debug symbol debs) at package
build. This package has been installed in the edgy buildd chroots for
quite some time.

# posted by picdout @ 11:37 0 comments

Ubuntu with Userful's 'Multiplier' offers dramatic hardware and software savings, literally offering organizations ten Linux workstations for what they would otherwise spend on just a single Windows computer with commercial office and graphics software.

# posted by picdout @ 10:54 0 comments

This tutorial will work for any Debian based system, but is written specifically for Ubuntu.

I’ve recently had the occasion to make a complete list of software installed on one of my Ubuntu boxes, and then reinstall it from scratch. Here’s a quick and easy way to generate a list of installed .deb packages, and then use that list to quickly reinstall them.

# posted by picdout @ 10:49 0 comments

A friend of mine phoned to ask if I thought he should install
Ubuntu Linux on his Macs - a 1.33 GHz G4 iBook currently
running OS X 10.4 "Tiger" and a 1.25 GHz Power Mac G4 tower with OS X 10.3 "Panther" installed.

My friend had read a feature in the local newspaper extolling
the virtues of Ubuntu Linux and thought it sounded interesting.

Ubuntu is a other project dedicated to making Linux
user-friendly enough to be used as a mainstream desktop OS, and
it's arguably the most successful iteration toward that objective
to date. Ubuntu supports Intel/AMD PC hardware as well as Power PC
Macs.

# posted by picdout @ 18:21 0 comments

Tollef Fog Heen of the Ubuntu development team on Sept. 16 announced the third alpha release (codenamed "Knot CD") of Ubuntu 6.10. The new Ubuntu version features a 2.6.17 Linux kernel and comes with the GNOME desktop environment.

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Ubuntu has issued an update for gnutls. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

# posted by picdout @ 07:58 0 comments

I put together some scripts from Sam Tygier and some of my own to generate graphs of the number of open/unconfirmed/critical etc bugs from the statistics available on Launchpad.

# posted by picdout @ 13:45 0 comments

If you have an old PC lying around or even a new one, this may be the time to give Linux another try.

Yes, I know, you expect Linux, the free operating system developed by volunteers all over the world, to be nerdy and hard to use.

# posted by picdout @ 14:33 0 comments

It's considered a good thing that a free software project never really has to die - if the person who started it gives up, another can always take the code and run with it.

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