Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

CrunchBang Linux 9.04.01 Review and Screenshot Tour

I have always wanted to take CrunchBang for a spin. This elegant distribution is based on the minimal version of Ubuntu, in this case, Jaunty Jackalope. CrunchBang wants to provide an alternative look and way of working with Ubuntu. The default desktop does support compositing (I barely refrained from posting some wobbly windows), but along [...]

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A Quick Look at Two Opensource File Encryption Software

I received another guest blog article, so I’m posting this before I start. This very interesting article is by Ryan. Ryan’s other postings are at http://source.kohlerville.com where he mainly posts about problems he runs into at his work. At my work, I noticed that I work on some documents that I felt needed to be [...]

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Why I chose GNU/Linux

This is a guest blog by Christian. You can read more of his work at his website, www.senshikaze.net Many people will give you many reasons why GNU\Linux is better than Windows, Mac, or any other Operating System out there. I will not, I am just going to give the reasons I feel GNU/Linux is a [...]

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Top 5 Netbook Linux Distributions

Hi there! Have you already jumped onto the netbook bandwagon? I currently own a MEDION PC, a MacBook and a Nokia E71, but my inner-geek still craves for a cool little Linux netbook. Sub-notebooks are great stuff: they are, like Linus Torvalds said in a recent interview, “laptops done right”. You can carry them around, [...]

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Google Chrome on KDE4.2 – Why not?

I’ve been playing with this idea for a while now and  wanted to share it with you guys. While I think that Konqueror is a great browser there is sadly no real KDE 4 support for my favorite browser, Firefox, except the Nokia beta Qt4 port or the theme, so I’ve been thinking: lots of [...]

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